I was sitting at my desk getting ready to actually go and do something other than yell at the interns for fucking up the servers (they actually decided to use their shared single brain cell for something other than Star Wars Galaxies talk and learned how to set up our new router and firewall on their own). Anyway, someone calls me up and says "Someone rooted the Linux box." I thought about that for a moment and then asked the fellow, "Please, tell me, when, which box and how did you figure out that someone rooted it?" The reply was a few seconds of silence followed by, "I can't get online to check my e-mail." I asked him for his ID number and name which he gladly gave, in fact he even voulentered his SSN. I looked at his workstation and found he's not even hooked up to ANY linux computer, not even our main proxy. Well... I tell him and he said that he still didn't internet access and couldn't check his e-mail. About five minutes of this and then I do a permissions check and find out that he has three write-ups for internet usage while working. This caused my direct boss to lock his computer to ONLY local LAN and he was trying to get to his g-mail. I think about it and tell him "You can check your e-mail, you just can't get outside the offices." He insists that he was trying to get into his company outlook and wasn't able to.

Well, 10 more minutes go by, his boss calls and said that he needs to get back online so his employee can e-mail his daughter because it's the only way he can get ahold of her. I know that he got a blackberry from the company. It was given to him when he was promoted and it is not on the same network as the rest of our equipment. I tell him to use that. I get silence and then the guy says that his employee SOLD the blackberry. It is company property and he was made to sign an agreement with the company for the thing that he understands that it is not his.  I contact HR about this, send them the taped conversation of the employee in question explaining that he didn't know it was the company's and not his. HR contacts the police, this guy's getting charged with theft. The guy he sold it to will be brought up for reciving stolen goods. I like my job.

People still play Star Wars Galaxies?

That's the saddest part of this entire story.

I agree. If it were EVE online... or even WoW I'd understand... but SWG? WTF?!

Who are you?

This is not the real Talon, the real Talon couldnt string a sentence together without misspelling every second word.

And why is someone having sex with the Linux box?

And why is someone having sex with the Linux box?

Because the sheep were at a town meeting with Obammy?

Not that kind of rooting, rumnut. Nothing was wrong with the Linux server, the guy with issues just wanted to sound smart I guess. He was a low level secretary and didn't need to be hooked into the Linux side at all. I went and checked the box after I got in touch with HR about the blackberry being sold and found it clean and operational with the configuration that I set up a year and a half ago.


Knowing the moron who made the initial call, the sheep probably were the ones who revoked his internet privileges.

Also, as for the real Talon, well, he died... I'm all that remains. Piss off or deal with it.

bagman? Is that YOU?

No

He was a low level secretary ...

All of you douche bag IT guys think all secretarys are low level morons.  Cut off your pony tail, get laid, and stop calling people names.... troll.

I don't have a pony tail and if he wasn't really a moron, I'd not think he was. All I know is that it's pretty funny that he's an idiot, unlike most people who actually know wtf is going on in the office and what they sign when they're hired.

What's wrong with my sig? I worked REAAAAALLY hard on it...

I'm not thinking that dude that bought it will be accountable ...
Too many loopholes ...

So, is the dude in question a crack addict, or just really fucking stupid?

Well, the guy who sold it brags about how he "landed the job with only a 1.5 GPA right out of Missouri U at Rolla." so I think he's really fucking stupid.

I think dude that bought it is ok; other dude is a douche ...

What I was going to say before my laptop died was, the phone's still under our contract and has been shut off. It won't be able to be reactivated, and if it is, well... things will happen but meh.

I brag about my .25 GPA alll the time.

... I can "jailbreak" ANY phone
... it can be used

It doesn't really matter, honestly, we'll get the money, cancel that line and go on to live a normal life. I'm not the one in charge of that.

On a side note, what would make my laptop die, unable to turn on now and flash the CDROM in drive icon on the panel? Could this be a heat issue? I don't hear my fan.

No, I'm just telling you, I've talked to a detective recently about this; so many cells are lost/stolen that cracking them is easy, and they get reused ...

I hate work. Yours sounds a lot more uptight than mine though.

I've seen people on facebook and ebay here before, no one cares about it that much.

My work is the same way.. if I try to log onto Facebook it pops up a window that says, "if you do not remove yourself from this website in ten seconds your account will be suspended pending supervisor approval"

He was abusing it though. Not only was he checking e-mail every 10 minutes, he was also streaming music and basically being distracted by the i-net. He would spend about four hours a day trolling some garbage board instead of filing the paper's he was given. He was just asking for a canning so, we gave it to him with a heaping helping of theft.

Why are we allowing pics in sigs now?

I brag about my .25 GPA alll the time.

Goin' for the Pass/Fail's, eh?

Good thinking!


i know damned good and well you're at least 3.5 on a 4.0.

I don't remember my college grades but I was at least a middle B, except in classes I got to be an asshole in. Those I got As in.

Why are we allowing pics in sigs now?

If he's gonna pull that shit I'm gonna get my dancing Cthulhu pic up...

After this semester I will have a 3.3.  Good enough for me!

Why are we allowing pics in sigs now?

If he's gonna pull that shit I'm gonna get my dancing Cthulhu pic up...

I've asked him to remove it.