Things I Am Not Allowed To Do At Work, Part 9

[delta_mike]

( Previously. Recap: University sysadmin.)

• Name servers after meta-syntactic variables.
• The correct strategy for coping with a contagious illness is not, "Continue to come in and cough on all the users, so that there's no work for you to do when you recover.”
• Configure the undergraduate lab workstations to object verbally when someone tries to wander

Comments

[theogrin]

It's probably not a good idea to carve blank CDs into miniature Bat'leths (or Batarangs), either. Not that I'd know...

[azurelunatic]

And definitely not a good idea to "stress-test" CDs by spinning them on an electric drill at max RPMs.

[boggyb]

Configure the undergraduate lab workstations to object verbally when someone tries to wander off with one of it's peripherals.

At school (I helped the IT guy out while in 6th form), to stop a batch of optical mice from disappearing the plugs were superglued in. Some time later, we received a report of a computer missing a mouse which puzzled us since the whole point of supergluing plugs was to stop that. It all became clear when we checked the computer, and found that it was indeed missing the mouse... and about half the mouse cable.

[ladyofscotts]

I am not allowed to tell the users that it is them and not the computers that are broken.

[dysan27]

I love these lists.

Your stratagy for illnesses is actually quite clever.