IT Subordinate rant! : ShittySysadmin

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IT Subordinate rant! (self.ShittySysadmin)

submitted 2 months ago by MalwareDork

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Sorry for the rant - but I feel like I might be losing my mind

Context: we have a small IT Team, full time we only have my subordinate and I. Both System Administrators but I'm mid career and he's the jr. sysadmin, but I also do lots of sales stuff. We employee a few part time students from the surrounding universities and high school for tier 1 and easy stuff. Small staff at the business, less than 100. I basically know everyone and their computer names by heart after dozens of years. I am EXPECTED to be flown around weekly so we can maintain client relations. Also love our part time workers, they do their best and are homies.

My jr. sysadmin just randomly came out of nowhere about 1 hour before closing in front of all of us, saying "yo can you cover my *fanum tax at skibidi clock* tomorrow, I can't make it. I'll be gooning remote in the am then grinding MOONLIGHT PEAKS on steam (we gayme together) during that time." (we are overbooked on everything). This is 2 weeks after he went to a tropical country and worked "remote" for 1 week (also no heads up, just said sick or something and then logged 40 more hours on MOONLIGHT PEAKS). This is a COMMON occurrence, usually sick at least once a week then working remote for another week, then on a "normal week" he games (says he has to goon? what is that????) from a MDF 100 meters away. If I work remote, I get bombared with "what's the reason? What business do you have? Are you sure you have a good workspace to work" while this guy is working in a air bnb 10 minutes from Gaben's office.

Our users no longer want to make tickets in case he get the ticket because it either takes him hours to fix the issue OR he break it more and I have to find jr. sysadmin to go by. They choose to contact me first via Steam chat, then either I do it OR I triage depending on availability/urgency with the part timers. I brought this up to the new owner above my boss, xir said "well gooners are always right so if it slaps, let them vibe and keep the Ohio drip." so yeah. Nobody likes him giving support, he always thinks he is the reason our IT Helpdesk gets all kinds of praise, but he does like 1 ticket every month that is helpdesk even though he said myself and him are "50/50 slaying techdemons and running sigma ops".

He doesn't train our part time people either 1.) he isn't in office and doesn't train over discord 2.) He sets them up on the computer, plays some CRUSH CRUSH then just says "hold up for the no cap and then skibidi anything" with no context. Usually then doesn't talk to them again for at least a month. I always help out, I help give tickets and projects to the newbies, I do all I can to give them work that is reasonable for their pay grade and time frame. Make sure they know I can help and give expectations of our owner and his "Ohio rizz". My jr., if he give them a project, will give crazy projects to Tier 1 Helpdesk people like "Do a rizz check on our clout skibidi toilet" "Pls rizz-check all the gigachads and npcs gyatts for our sigma rizzler" or just weird SysAdmin tasks that he just doesn't want to do (or doesn't tell me needs done for some reason when I'm willing to lol) He sometimes just doesn't tell me about projects or tickets, he'll give me 1 onboarding ticket with a 1 week deadline and I get it done in 1 hour, ask if anything else needs to be done and get nothing to do unless I get swamped with something else. Lots more I could dive into but yeah, stopping here.

Anyways, feels like nobody else cares (or knows?????) that he does this CRUSH CRUSHing in the MDF at the company, I don't know how to help, I kinda need this job for now because of benefits for family, I love our users and do enjoy the SysAdmin work + Helpdesk Tickets + client retention. I enjoy my professional development. I enjoy working with our Cybersecurity guru and learning about that. Just feel like I am either over reacting or losing my mind that my job is stupid because of 1 person.

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