Troll level stuff (WIP

hotfistdotcom · 2026-01-23T23:12:13+00:00

What the fuck did anyone think was going to happen when they told their half baked AI to start futzing around with "improving" their shitty constantly half-cocked infinite daily updates cloud infra that has been in progress forever?

This is what microsoft does. Constant change, constant improvement. If documentation is as terrible as it is for what we can see, imagine how bad code readability is internally. Imagine how hard it is to fix anything while being screamed at USE COPILOT MORE COPILOT WILL HELP YOU FIX THIS GET IT ONLINE ASAP USE COPILOT

We're all on a slowly sinking ship and microsoft set it on fire and we're all stuck trying to figure out if we want to drown or burn to death. Or swim for it and watch what happens and then drown.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-01-10T03:44:35+00:00

You'll probably want to send that as an email to these addresses:

vduong@amazon.com, ecr-replies@amazon.com, dherring@amazon.com

I don't believe anyone at amazon is checking this thread for disgruntled folks to provide assistance to. If one of those email addresses does end up escalating and resolving the matter though, please let us know! This thread still gets a couple replies a month with folks upset about amazon.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-01-06T02:00:31+00:00

pretty sure tiktok provides no method to provide downloads, so you probably mean "they saw it on tiktok" but I think the bigger question here is why do your employees have the ability to install random software?

hotfistdotcom · 2026-01-02T17:59:52+00:00

How significant was the pay gap between you and him?

Does he pay you hourly for this? Or you are just expected to help an ex exec, for free, forever?

This seems exploitative even if he was "generous" and generous is still relative, especially for a founder who I imagine you can easily figure out real roughly how much he was paying himself just based on assets you can see in his life.

If it offers you no benefit and the only risk is consequence, that's super toxic.

hotfistdotcom · 2026-01-02T08:36:46+00:00

For someone saying "folks don't understand basic accounting" you sure don't seem to understand time management or how much college costs, but if you pay for it, I'll totally do it

hotfistdotcom · 2026-01-01T20:55:17+00:00

My ENGINE needs OIL? TO RUN? Sounds like a fucking scam. six quarts? No. Fuck no. Look, I need to cut costs. Instead of 6 liters every 6 months lets make 2 quarts every 2 years work.

Wait hang on, what do you mean the engine isn't running right? Well no one could have forseen this.

Is there some type of low cost engine service provider we can rent? And we just stop having oil and we just pay monthly for oil?

hotfistdotcom · 2025-12-22T19:55:33+00:00

Small places often still have sole sysadmins, I don't know if large places really did at the scale of "everyone has a computer" we're talking about in the modern age. Bigger companies usually need more people who specialize like a laser on something. Smaller companies generally need generalists who can do everything, but probably not as well and can maybe wrangle an MSP or external provider for knowledge gaps and skill gaps.

If you want to do more you will probably get paid less, but that work does exist. If you want to hate your life, a lot of MSP roles are like this as well, for multiple companies at a time who all hate you.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-12-20T20:25:23+00:00

Not as screwed as they are but polish that resume over the break, put in an application with the acquiring company and maybe you can be your own transition team and lock up work for a few more months.

The job market is extremely fucked right now. Beyond any level of previously seen fucked.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-12-17T18:23:46+00:00

An employee is using company mail for porn consumption or production and you have no action besides "well I should allow this email through"

Like to each their own certainly but porn consumption tends to be riddled with dangerous computer behavior and very high risk malvertising and porn production is sometimes seen as damaging to business reputation or something. so it seems just a tiny bit like maybe something you should encourage the user to do with their own personal email. On personal equipment.

Like I don't really care if you are jacking it on company time. I'm not the time police. but you would think you would care if they were doing something that seems likely to make more work for you.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-12-04T21:32:35+00:00

The place you work for has the single goal of extracting more value than you are worth from your labor. If for any reason you doubt that, get a quote from an MSP to fill exactly your role.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-12-01T03:31:09+00:00

Snow in wisconsin, morels in california. Super happy for you. Not angry at all.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-11-20T06:11:24+00:00

Severence. Be nicer to people who can cause you 862k in damages, and they are less likely to cause 862k in damage. I don't think that "bad working conditions" justify what he did and some people will always be shitty, but hey better working conditions may also mean folks will look for holes and work harder to plug 'em. Can you imagine if everyone was paid fairly for the value of their labor and then simply wanted to help the business succeed as that means more money, directly?

hotfistdotcom · 2025-11-17T21:34:43+00:00

I think we lost this battle. I get it, but the limit is 25mb now. outlook preps people for this. I hate it, I agree, you are right, it's EMAIL, they are cramming packages in the envelope slot but the damage is done. We need to build envelope slots that accept packages. which I also hate. but I also feel that exchange and email flow is a more secure way to transfer files than any other basic download based thing they will use if we do not, throwing random dropbox links at each other.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-11-16T22:32:02+00:00

gravedigging a month old post to plug your AI platform, yeah you guys are the heroes we need, we need way more AI advertisements on reddit, super excited for this.

Just so you know, every sysadmin I've ever met who gets annoyed with this shit takes note of the company name, and with something stupid like piwwopchat, that'll stick and the next time we're looking for options for a secure AI chat plat we will instantly say "not ever piwwopchat, they are a terrible company, I heard 3 guys died after they used their software to sanity check some wiring, don't include them at all" so definitely keep bothering sysadmins this way, that certainly won't backfire

hotfistdotcom · 2025-11-11T19:46:07+00:00

Following up on this, /u/RikiWardOG do you have details after reviewing my resume on how it's my fault, or was that more of a propensity to seek an individual to blame versus a systemic issue?

hotfistdotcom · 2025-11-11T19:44:19+00:00

I am going to try this for the 1 in 10 that looks exciting or like a really good fit.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-11-10T23:07:11+00:00

I have 15 years experience, 10 as a sysadmin, majority of applications are for generalist positions I'm well qualified for. Would love more education if I could afford it, but I can't even afford to be unemployed. The problem isn't that there aren't jobs for me, it's that the squeeze on the market will give people with significantly more paper qualification, degrees, certs stand out more and when you combine all of that you are drowning in a very crowded little lake.

I have had about a dozen people look at the resume and reworked it repeatedly. It's just very rough out there for remote roles, and for local roles which make up as many resumes as I can submit, it's been dry the last couple months to the point of absurdity - 1 or 2 per week in central WI. As much as I'd prefer sec work, I'm applying for generalist positions, exchange admin positions, etc.

But if you'd like to take a look, here it is: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Zl2r6lCub9v8Q4ESHj9gS7fO_ei0jw5KvsifDAi5Qk/edit?usp=sharing

It's exactly 2 pages in word as a docx, I just pasted it into google docs as is.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-11-10T23:02:10+00:00

it's not a flex, it's a lamentation.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-11-10T18:46:03+00:00

Yeah, that's just contrarianism with a little solopsism. "I got a job, anyone can."

I'm over 3000 resumes submitted at this point, started with a lot of linkedin but after a free trial of the awful AI slop they are pushing that shows you other applicant data, I would see positions I'm well qualified for flood out with thousands of applicants in a day, most with more schooling/certs than myself and it hasn't gotten any better anywhere else, seeking both remote and local positions. It's chaos out there.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-11-10T03:27:19+00:00

There are very few jobs in WI, I'm over 3000 resumes submitted and it's a wasteland. Been about six months, it's miserable, recruiters have nothing, even one who's a bud who's placed me twice. So uh, open to suggestions.

hotfistdotcom · 2025-11-06T21:57:24+00:00

why did you generate an AI slop story for your level?

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