As the vast minority of you may potentially be aware, I started as a Help Desk Tech for local B2B healthcare company on Monday. My building has around 150 users and will be adding 200 in a month or so, pending an expansion to another floor.
The building's previous Network Administrator left spontaneously about a week ago, for reasons that are too specific to elaborate upon here. The Systems Administrator is being re-tasked to work on the website. All these things, and more, combine in such a
way that I'm left as the only member of the building's IT department. As such, tomorrow I take over as Network Admin, Sys Admin, and basically the entire IT department. The good news, though, is that I might get an intern a few hours a day.
I was sure to grant myself a few GOD accounts on the domain, as well as coding myself up a GOD badge. Graphic label pending.
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SlackmasterK
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W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
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If you do snag an intern, just make sure they've seen a cigar before
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Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde
Being Network Admin is like being an offensive lineman (American football term.) If you do everything right, no-one knows you exist. If anything goes wrong, everybody stares at you until it's right again.
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SlackmasterK
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ZippyV wrote:Yes, you are the master now...
But can you handle the huge pressure of the responsability you know have when something goes wrong?
Things are going wrong all the time, so far mostly on servers in another building (run by another admin), so I shift the blame accordingly. Once we expand, we should be getting some servers and admins of our own. Now, I just need to go get those certifications to make me qualified to do my job.
The funny part is, the building officially has no network or system admin, this is all a makeshift arrangement.
Maurits wrote:
Being Network Admin is like being an offensive lineman (American football term.) If you do everything right, no-one knows you exist. If anything goes wrong, everybody stares at you until it's right again.
"If I do my job right, you'll never know I was here"... Except for all the help desk stuff I'm supposed to be tasked on. -
Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything
Maurits wrote:Being Network Admin is like being an offensive lineman (American football term.) If you do everything right, no-one knows you exist. If anything goes wrong, everybody stares at you until it's right again.
Best statement ever...
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ZippyV
Fired Up
Yes, you are the master now...
But can you handle the huge pressure of the responsability you now have when something goes wrong? [6]
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