On reddit: Someone in IT trolled me for over a decade
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Usually it isn't trivial to log and audit such access to work resources. But if there is any evidence, it might help.
Please don't bring these to hackernews.
This is a dead giveaway. HR took a report of a decade long conspiracy in stride and simply reversed all negative consequences quickly and painlessly, with a formal apology cherry on top? Yeah right.
A different person, also a dirty-player, accused my boss of trying to sandbag her, and threatened to play the race card and get him buried for it. my boss said something to the effect of "you know that's not true, as does everyone on this call" and her reply was "lol who cares, we know who HR will side with".
There was an HR complaint, and I eventually dragged out the recording to cover my boss. Boss got a light talking to but they let him off, and the shady PM eventually got rotated, two months later, to another project before "deciding to spend time with her family".
I got reprimanded heavily, transferred off a juicy project, and made to sign another round of NDAs. Even though I just saved them from one, maybe two lawsuits.
Point is: HR doesn't do happy endings most of the time.
The fact that so many people in this thread immediately suspected this to be fake is pretty telling.
If a story is bombastic, it's safer to assume it's fake. Reddit incentivizes OPs to get engagement.
Not to mention the stories are usually wildly dramatised as if the persons involved are TV characters.
10 years and you didn't once think something was wrong with the computer? LOL
if [[ "$URL" == *"reddit.com"* ]];No way a human being can be petty to this level
It's called bait for a reason, and it's why most popular subreddits are not good places to hang out anymore.
Also points go up feels good.
This. There's a whole market for high-karma old Reddit accounts. If it has a comment history that makes it look like a real person is behind it, even better.
Buyers are usually companies looking to astroturf their product/service, or scammers.
Google "buy reddit account" and see how many results there are.
Second, it's to create fake accounts with real post histories so that they can be sold. There is a lot of strategies and work behind this approach.
Sold accounts then look "real", so when real people endorse product X on r/buyitforlife or AskReddit threads about "what product's quality has gone down?" it looks like actual people and not a targeted marketing effort.
Long stories also make for good consensus building by hammering points that are relevant to socio-political discussions. Like when the Woke was riding high during 2016-2018 there would be constant discussions in r/relationships, AskReddit, TwoXChromosomes, etc. about abuse, to keep people constantly talking and thinking about gender issues.
You can also create "tailing" or "follow-on" accounts that post replies to the obviously BS stories, including those that post "lol what a load of BS", as that builds their history, too, and you can steer opinion by having a few of those supporting shillbots make outrageous claims for (or against) the story, and then disprove them in ways that leads the audience into intellectual positions that the posters want.
You can sell your reddit account too for good money.
The counting subreddit has already had a bit of influence on the tokens.
Not to demean IT folks, as many of us have worn that hat at some point in our lives) but in the first week, a new IT worker is finding obvious things like "why do we only have 30% of our network gear in the monitoring system" or "shouldn't we change the hard drive with a blinking error light on the server?"
I choose to believe, for my own sanity, that this itself is a masterful troll.
If he had RMM access, the IT guy could do other fun things.
It’s also unlikely that after 10 years of this, the person was put on a PIP with the perfect timing to be removed from it once bob left. And really the job made the employee test for ADHD and Alzheimer’s rather than just letting her go.
Most business storage solutions have record keeping functionality, or at least the capability to turn it on. Audit logs, versioning, backups, etc.
Back when I worked IT, I had to pull old versions and access logs on a few occasions.
Pretty sure the PIP was removed because OP raised their concerns to HR.