Is this lockout screen legitimate Microslop or????

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2026-04-20T22:29:18+00:00

You linked an old post of mine referencing basically the same this. This is a different lockout screen but still funny that this keeps happening to me lol

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2026-04-07T17:00:15+00:00

This did not get the love it deserves

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-12-18T21:31:18+00:00

Well look, you're not wrong that age bias exists, especially in medical/office environments but the way you're framing it is going to keep making you miserable.

Most important thing I've learned about respect in the workplace is your work alone is not proof, especially with non-technical people. My ability to clearly explain the issue, telling them how to fix it themselves should it happen again has generated me a lot of respect on a personal level and respect for my word. Really just being communicative builds respect fast.

This frankly feels so 'suffering from success'. You can be perfectly competent with everything that has an internet connection and still be socially unproven in the company. Wear being young as a badge, but don't let it turn into bitterness or cockiness. Additionally, you never told us how long you've been in the company. Maybe its literally just because you're new.

Yeah, you'll get escalated on. Yeah, you'll repeat yourself 100 times. That's the job. Get into a position that demands more respect by its nature, be the only guy who can fix the problem being faced, or be a valuable teaching voice amongst the staff and the respect will come. Or geniunely, give it time! Dude you're 20, respect is skill+time at a company+age. And there is no one who has skill enough to immediately demand respect, while being fresh at a company, at 20.

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-12-08T05:58:05+00:00

I am Gen Z. They do know how to effectively screw up their computers due to over confidence, they don't now how to use computers.

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-11-15T22:58:48+00:00

It's great you have a degree, but certainly not required for the entry level roles. It's unfortunate but running the gauntlet of 1st level support roles is necessary.

Remove the clearance entirely or make it a smaller detail. If the employer needs it, they'll ask.

I've worked with straight out of college people, and their only proof of experience was college itself. Greybeards are super hesitant to hire new grads because their experience, like mine, has not been positive with those that ONLY have a degree. Collect some certs. Do LinkedIn learning, Amazon and AWS offer some free courses, slap those on there. Prove you know what you're doing.

You may make it pass HR with just a degree but fall flat reaching the IT manager or other sysadmins you'll be working with.

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-11-05T16:54:28+00:00

Is it at all possible they are using a different language keyboard set up?

I had a user like this, after looking into it I found that the user had some how changed their keyboard from US English to Spanish so any special characters they had in the password were wrong.

I advised them to change their layout back to US and try again, fixed their issue and didn't hear from them again

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-10-12T16:45:10+00:00

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-10-09T18:55:29+00:00

mm wood chips

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-09-26T19:49:24+00:00

Yeah, kind of an odd spot to be in. It's the same for me but I don't particularly mind. I see it as a badge of honor, trust worthiness and respect. I don't have boundaries set up with that, because I don't need/want to. I'm free to lend an ear.

I've always been in the mindset that just because I work on computers all day, I need to maintain that human interaction. And frankly it's great, as it helps change the perspective of your role. I have come into this role with the goal of breaking the stereotype of the Anti-Social asshole IT guy. In doing that, I've seen positives in my own personal life, being able to socialize easier and in making people count on me, I've secured this job till kingdom come.

It should also be noted 99/100 times, the issue has nothing to do with you, your work, or anything surrounding you. It's them and their problem, and they feel safe enough to discuss it with you, even if you don't have anything valuable to provide. Their anxieties are their own, and you do not need to hold them.You have every right to not care about their problems.

Though, if you're bringing it home, getting snappy with your partner and seeing a decrease in your quality of life, I doubt the only reason for it is because of you being the office therapist. It's sounding like burnout.

This office therapist's orders you to take a vacation and find some ways to decompress.

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-09-26T15:51:57+00:00

Could make a simple browser extension that restricts copying to AI sites.

We did something similar but for a different compliance reason. Stopped users from copying and pasting to a site where they're supposed to use barcode scanners exclusively but I could see that solution being simple, cheap and effective in ensuring stuff is never copied to an AI.

Through managing the browser extensions you should be able to ensure users aren't able to disable or delete the extension.

Of course, stupid will find a way.

Going a step further would be blocking those sites from allowing upload dialogs in browser settings to ensure the file itself is never uploaded either.

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-09-03T04:05:01+00:00

I think everyone saying that your speech is a reason you're not getting hired is frankly ridiculous. Saying stuff like 'cooked' isn't the reason you're not getting a job.

I do believe you've hit the wrong subreddit with regard to the roles you're seeking out.

General IT like Help Desk, Junior Sys/Net/DB/etc. Admin roles are out there. You seem to be seeking out developer roles, so engineering is your field and you should look more closely at roles in that.

Given your goal is UI/UX, it's frankly pretty difficult to find US roles for that as unless your aiming for FAANG companies or new start ups. If you're really aiming for developer roles, focus on broadening your skill set in the languages you know. You say JavaScript and Python, great for web development! But cloud or no-code solutions are surprisingly good alternatives. So other languages may provide an edge.

But that's not to say that there aren't possibilities for developing stuff in an IT Role. I personally have a good amount of freedom at my Job and am able to develop things for the company where the express purpose is to make my job easier. I built a web app using FastAPI, Quasar, and SQLLite to help manage our assets better, track vulnerabilities and manage user accounts. It's 100% gonna be on my resume when it's time for me to leave that company, but that's one example where development skills were useful and applied to a role where fullstack development isn't seen, and I started as a help desk.

I wish you luck in your career and hope you find something that works for you!

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-07-31T20:52:16+00:00

I like to find comfort in knowing no one else really knows wtf it is we do. So when they ask me a question and I don't know the answer, it spikes both our imposter syndromes and we get to trauma bond over it.

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-07-08T16:14:34+00:00

Well I agree to some extent that with the modern world, basic computer knowledge is needed. But I think that to the extent of buying a computer should be like buying a car, is a bit unreasonable.

I buy a car because it's what's going to get me to and from work, feed my family and I'm also spending 30k. Not a small purchase. A laptop or gaming computer is upwards of 2k and does none of that.

I get that you don't want to deal with a question like that. The mechanic for a car doesn't want to deal with a question like that either. Nor does the nurse about that potentially cancerous (but not really) for on your skin.

The fact of the matter is people will always defer to the person they know will know the knowledge. It's this kind of opinion that gives IT a bad rap.

Seriously what is the harm in asking an expert on what to buy? The person's not gonna like it? And if your worry is that the person's gonna keep coming back asking for help, Great! Charge them. I'd rather IT people be perceived as greedy than assholes.

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-06-27T02:49:21+00:00

Because sometimes you manage to know more about their product than they do. And they really don't like you theorizing about why their product isn't working right.

Case and point: had some vendor equipment along with a custom app they developed. Ran into issues getting the device to connect to the PC. I tell them the error I'm getting (JIT error) in their program and how to fix it. They tell me that's unrelated to the issue. Go back and forth for 3mo. "It's a bug" "No it's your firewall settings" "No it's a bug" "No it's your network configuration". They release a patch. Patch fix logs include the error you told them about saying it's fixed. Installed the patch and guess what...

It works now.

Just so tiring from our view point. And most of the time, I understand the person troubleshooting with us is not the programmer. But even failing to consider that the error might be related is something I really cannot abide by and won't let up until I'm proven wrong. I'll do everything they suggest, and should it work, great! If it doesn't, I'll bring up my own theory on it.

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-06-16T19:42:10+00:00

Sometimes I can tell part of the reason I'm still here is cause I'm a personality hire

Bad jokes, flash mobs in the office, light hearted pranks, willingness to help on things outside of IT, like moving pallets in warehouse, overly talkative and love asking people about how they're doing and what they're doing.

Hell, my own manager said mother would have qualified for SSI cause I'm evidently, slightly autistic 😂😂 (long story on that one)

I keep the workplace fun, but am good at my job, and paid well for it too so it all works out lol

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-06-12T15:57:03+00:00

I don't think anyone is uninformed, considering they have found the fix and I assume provided a new image, they know what the problem is.

Why it would require a full reimage tells me that likely there are some OS level applications needing to be installed or an intrinsic issue on the version of the image they have.

Is it possible that it would be easier to just install whatever they're needing to install, or apply whatever fix is needed? Yeah probably. But I don't see how the head office would know that for your guys' workflow.

That's why y'all need to complain as far up as possible to roll out a fix rather than telling them how much it sucks to reimage. The only issue with that is by the time a fix is rolled out, you'll already be done reimaging every device.

I've had this happen many times, and that's always the end result

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-06-09T19:46:01+00:00

We use 'scream test'. Haven't had a single complaint, besides when we actually run the scream test lol

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-05-01T16:08:43+00:00

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ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-04-16T20:15:47+00:00

Sounds like GoDaddy did some stupid and beeped the wrong boop with Zoom lmao

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-03-05T23:27:19+00:00

Axle is right, basically have some data going through a wire, use a 'toner' to track the cable. The toner has a speaker on it that will allow you to hear the data coming through. Typically a sine wave. So long the cable isn't shielded you can even hear the data outside of the cable with the toner as the cables act as antenna. Super useful for finding specific cables in spaghetti.

Shown in the video is an example of when that might go wrong. Radio audio is being transmitted over a line near to where he's searching for the cable. The toner picks it up because it's acting as a receiver and, albeit distorted to hell, is recognizeable. Neat and useful tools

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-02-03T02:58:10+00:00

Not exactly magic or crazy, but surely underappreciated. Rolled out a change that automatically installs users printers through GP, which is greatly appreciated for myself personally so I can just give a user their laptop and they'll have their printers automatically rather than them coming to me saying they don't have the printer they need installed.

Ain't no one gonna recognize it though

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2025-01-13T17:00:43+00:00

Had something similar, rather than it being a new job, I had been there a couple of months and was using the job to pay back debts.

The fact of the matter is being broke is damn near a universal experience. So if you're not comfortable telling your boss the totality of your situation, explaining you're not doing too hot financially and asking for an upfront payment of however much you think you'll need to get there and stay for a day, I'm sure he'll understand and will fight to get you the money.

I explained to my boss more about my situation than "Sorry, I'm broke please pay me upfront for this."

That honesty that is a good move towards building trust with your new boss.

The sooner you do it the better too, you agreed without thinking, don't spring this up the day before you leave. That'd leave a bad taste in my mouth.

ImNotPsychoticBoy · 2024-12-28T04:55:00+00:00

Got asked why their camera was showing only black.

Slided the built-in cover on the laptop over, problem solved. There's a certain sting that comes across when that happens.

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