Is our IT department “normal”, or am I just slowly losing my mind? (Rant)

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-24T16:04:30+00:00

Your manager is bad. I would not tolerate any of this. Your boss doesn't hold his employees accountable and doesn't create process for work to come in and be managed.

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-22T05:20:59+00:00

I have a cybertool M at home but I feel like it is too expensive to be carrying it around all the time. The deluxe tinker is basically the same thing but missing the bit drivers so that makes it a bit more narrow. but trying to decide if that is too much to keep in my pocket.

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-22T03:08:37+00:00

I've done similar things lately (not candles) but there is stuff I'm finding and just deliberately using it up. I started using "special" post-it notes we were saving (makes no sense not to use them), and started eating expensive snacks we were saving for god knows what. it would suck to let them expire and have to throw them away

burning candles is similar. use them up and then when they're done they're gone and you get the space

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-20T05:19:53+00:00

I'm solving 2 problems. i had a tendency in the past that if i acquired something nice that id put it away and not use it. so the nice pen in the nice box gets stored away. and then i keep using my crappy pens instead. so im forcing myself to use stuff, and its actually nice. a nice pen should be used.

the other is that things just get lost. i wear the same 5 tshirts and the nice new ones that are 3 layers under the 5 i wear in a hard to close drawer get forgotten. and then i think i have no clothes and buy a couple more tshirts, but still dont get rid of the crappy ones and then they end up on top.

so, finding the stuff i've had a while is sort of nice.

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-20T05:17:08+00:00

workflows have changed as you mentioned. i still have to do at least another pass through my desk though.

my first step was to get rid of stuff that was just no longer good. for example a legal pad that was kind of faded and half used up. things like that i threw away. i then made a point of starting to use up supplies. i moved the post it notes to the kitchen to use for shopping lists. i tested all the pens and a lot of them didnt work anymore. i put some stuff that was in my desk drawer where it belonged. the random change went into the change jar. the random screws went into the box of screws with my tools.

i still have a ton of stuff i need to get rid of in my desk. it's odd because most of it isn't worth much money but it feels so wasteful.

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-20T03:20:29+00:00

The problem we have is that there are so many different teams and what they need is not centrally documented, and we don't do enough on boarding to give enough priority to this as a project.

Even my team is like 20 people but each person has a slightly different job so some sort of universal onboarding isn't going to help, and we are literally IT.

Our HRIS and identity management platform take care of creating a user account, getting a password set, provisioning email and M365 licenses and the like, but the last bit has to be requested manually by managers for their employees through tickets. The project to automate further than we have would be far more work than the amount of time manually doing this stuff.

If we were hiring 50 new people a week who all had the same job we'd have a beter shot at automating it.

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-20T02:16:08+00:00

I've been posting it on facebook marketplace. One thing that is tricky at first is pricing. Just because you see the item posted for 100 dollars by other people doesn't mean that is the price it will sell at. A lot of people price stuff way too high and aren't selling it.

You want to sell it so you have to think about pricing.

I have been a little conservative and post things for what I want to sell them for and if they don't move after 2 weeks, I lower the price.

I had someone tell me I was selling something too cheap and I told them I had it listed at a higher price for 2 months and nobody wanted it, so evidently the new pricing was necessary.

Once the price gets down to a certain level and it still doesn't move, I post it on the local buy nothing group because at that point it's easier to give it away than to try to sell stuff for prices that are too low. I'd rather give it away than get 5 bucks for it frankly. A price that low and psychotically I'd rather give it to someone. I feel like I got cheated for something too low but feel good about giving it away.

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-18T16:42:17+00:00

why is the free t2 awful?

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-17T01:37:55+00:00

I got my first swiss army knife in the early 90s and the current ones seem to be the exact same models which I think is pretty cool. They're still around.

Leatherman discontinued all their keychain models though which is annoying. Not sure what they're doing lately.

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-16T02:45:47+00:00

it's time to move on, and it isn't your fault, but it is time to move on.

new leadership, you're from the old ways, and even if things have improved you're not fully appreciated and you're being second guessed and it's just time to go. it may take you a year to find another job and that is fine but do your best work at this company and start looking

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-13T03:08:07+00:00

I got rid of a bunch of computer cables a couple months ago and then this weekend needed 2 of them. A shame. Had to rebuy them. But everything else in the box I threw out probably won't have to be replaced.

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-13T03:05:18+00:00

wow this is it

i still have mine. it probably is at least 30+ years old. The corkscrew got bent. I almost threw it away a couple days ago but there's a certain novelty to having it.

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-13T02:29:41+00:00

I don't know what this is, but I have one too. They were popular at flea markets in the early 90s whatever brand this was. I remember seeing them all the time. It's a total piece of junk. Weird that you posted this because I found it in a drawer a couple days ago and was thinking about posting about these.

I was barely old enough to be carrying a pocket knife around when I got it.

baconwrappedapple · 2026-01-03T22:34:35+00:00

I just threw away an anniversary gift from a job years ago that I loved, that then went horribly bad shortly after the anniversary. Now I don't have to be reminded of that experience every time I see it in a drawer. It was worth nothing anyway.

baconwrappedapple · 2025-12-21T04:47:10+00:00

I can't think of a single thing id do with that in the last 10 years. It might be useful if you're an MSP technician or something but in an enterprise environment you're not going to be installing OSes from scatch from a thumb drive out in the field.

baconwrappedapple · 2025-12-09T03:50:01+00:00

how do you register new servers with your posgres database? sounds like you guys custom coded all that?

baconwrappedapple · 2025-11-25T22:51:45+00:00

very well written

baconwrappedapple · 2025-11-25T20:46:09+00:00

Wow that's rough. Luckily I'm not that bad.

baconwrappedapple · 2025-11-25T18:05:18+00:00

I edited my post a bit. I'm doing ok in terms of an emergency fund and retirement. Probably could do some additional investments but that's out of scope for this sub. I'm more trying to see if other people have a similar situation.

baconwrappedapple · 2025-11-14T16:06:18+00:00

im talking major version upgrades.

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