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IT employee refuses to take on extra non-IT responsibilities after a coworker quits following a missed promotion: 'I'm not willing to quietly inherit years of accumulated non-IT scope creep'

Cata Holmes

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IT employee gets reported for stealing company laptops by coworker, only for HR to discover everything was fully approved: 'HR already had all the paperwork before you even finished your report'

Cata Holmes

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IT fails to fix employee's computer, leading to their account and login being deleted, employee spends over two weeks unable to work: ‘What a clown show’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Micromanagement isn’t cheap': Manager demands detailed reports from IT consultant regarding their daily work, causing the company's IT bill to double

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee sabotages outsourced consultant's job in order to hire his friend instead, company finds out, leading to him getting fired: ‘He was taken out of the building by security’

Bar Mor Hazut

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IT worker is blamed for coworker showing up late, says it's their fault for leaving on time: 'They’ve basically gotten used to arriving late, and the person ending the shift is stuck covering past their scheduled time'

JR Atkinson

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'Everything's down, like everything, the whole system crashed': Computer tech paid $85,000 to save the company after a smug boss fires him, implodes the client database, and begs him to fix it

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘I thought he was joking…’: Mediocre tech who's worked for the company for 3 years preaches about flat earth to the new manager of 2 months, gets fired

Elna McHilderson

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'I don't need the money': Pre-retired man re-enters the workforce as an IT worker for "purpose" reasons, but quickly becomes fed up with corporate drama, wants to tell young boss he needs autonomy and flexibility

Emma Saven

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IT demands employee submit a separate ticket to get access to each folder they need, leading employee to submit hundreds of tickets within an hour until they give in: ‘Stop winding up IT’

Bar Mor Hazut

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IT employee gets 90 seconds of work to cost 15-minutes due to new manager's negligence, Director throws a fit: ‘Be careful what you standardize.’

Elna McHilderson

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Boss demands IT employee follow process to the letter, stalling out a project with a major client and causing frantic messages from their boss: 'No ticket = no work. Bureaucracy over brains'

Brad Dickson

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'I'm not punishing my kid for doing something hilarious': Teen gets in trouble for outsmarting school's IT director and hacking the firewall, mom applauds her son's intelligence

Elna McHilderson

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Guest hacks into hotel's network and optimizes their entire system after seeing how slow the WiFi is, refuses to get compensated: 'Manager was torn between being grateful and concerned’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss demands IT send "detailed daily reports" for everything little task they do on the job, IT sends an 87-page novel in response: ‘8:02 AM: Logged into system’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘Lord of the Pings’: 39 WiFi network names that will make you want to rename your own router

Etai Eshet

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