I was thinking “carbonite” myself.

Mildly spicy paste?

Which is why you’ve chosen to be a kbinite.

I’m not falling for that one again, Mr. Disney Documentarian.

The countable pixels and questionable color accuracy of the image mean that could definitely be a white grape. Which I would infinitely prefer over a whole green olive. I would eat the grape, even though it’s weird on pizza. I’d take that olive right off, or maybe eat around it.

Gotta draw the line somewhere.

Who the hell puts grapes on pizza? 🤨

Just kind of rolls off the tongue doesn’t it? Lovely alliteration.

I take it that frog hadn’t been de-boned.

…do I want to read this?

clicks

I don’t know why I still get disappointed when I find out someone is a shitheel.

sigh

Hello fellow sufferer.

Not quite the same on my end but it ended up in the same place. When I started there were already two instances running (one for the parent company and one at my location, which had gotten acquired). Maybe a hundred nodes all together, and our job was just responding to alerts in a mostly out of the box setup. Then my boss got sick of trying to work around limitations of that setup and demanded admin access so our team could at least make adjustments. Which eventually turned into me being asked to add nodes, which turned into me being the primary administrator. Which was actually pretty sweet for a bit because I got to learn a lot, both about the software and the company. Finally convinced management to merge the two installations rather than rely on that EOC garbage.

Then the acquisitions started rolling in.

By the time I walked out there were 2000+ nodes in a dozen locations, and it was still just me and somehow still just a side job.

Orion has its faults but after migrating so many acquisitions from a handful of other platforms I still prefer it. Everything seems like it’s optimized for small installations and/or specific platforms. When shit gets that big you need a team to run it properly. Which is why I’m allowed to say “Solarwinds” in my house, but guests are asked to leave if they mention the C-suite as anything but sociopathic leeches.

Depends on their level of interest and/or knowledge. My job isn’t exciting or prestigious, just niche/specialized. Most of the time when I say what I do, I get a blank stare. If that’s the case I’ll just say “I babysit computers” and leave it at that. I’ve had the conversation enough times that I know it’s not worth the effort to try explaining it further. “Oh, you work with computers? My brother in law is a programmer, perhaps you’ve met him?”

Sometimes people will get the gist of it just from the title, and these are usually the most interesting conversations because they’ve made the (un?)conscious effort to understand something new to them. I am totally down with that.

On very rare occasions someone will actually know what it is that I do. This inevitably leads to trading war stories about redundant alerts to please management, unbalanced power loads, poorly defined environments handed over with little to no explanation, cable curtains, and how even other IT people have no clue what we’re on about half the time.

I have a vast crypto portfolio of multiple currencies that I’ve been sinking my savings into for years. Nothing fancy like bitcoin or etherium. Just waiting for the next big one to pop and I’ll have millions.

Any day now.

Nobody else has stepped up so far, so I guess I’ll downvote you to keep the streak going.

I got no horse in this race but if I can help someone feel better during the course of the day, it’s been a good day.

My bad.

https://127.0.0.1/C$/%userprofile%/Documents/EXCEL.ppt

If that doesn’t work give Derek a call.

I hope you don’t take the onion from his belt.

for the love of everything don’t look at your keyboard

Signed,
Xennial who was in IT for 25 years and never learned to touch type

That probiotic is nice and all, but it’ll never beat apple cider vinegar. That stuff cures everything. Especially if you take it with silver.

Seriously though, this is just the latest venue for this kind of bullshit.