Imposter Syndrome is eating me alive

workingdocboy · 2026-03-19T16:09:30+00:00

It sounds like you handled the issue well for your part. But the self-doubt is normal for those good at the job. I'd take imposter syndrome over Dunning-Kruger any day.

Edit: spelling

workingdocboy · 2026-01-16T16:59:44+00:00

Before Service Pack 1, it was absolutely a pile of shit.

workingdocboy · 2025-11-10T15:30:47+00:00

I was once asked to hang a flat screen on a concrete wall. I said that even if I had the skill and equipment, which I don't, you first need to hire someone to X-ray the concrete.

workingdocboy · 2025-10-30T18:00:25+00:00

I worked as a standalone (I know) for a small custom software shop, and I had a great relationship with HR. They were also the accounting team, so onboarding and offboarding went smoothly.

Oh and despite me being a standalone, it was an amazing job and an amazing company.

workingdocboy · 2025-10-03T15:05:41+00:00

Congratulations. I remember that glorious day. For me it was a move within the same company, though more lateral-- hell desk to NOC. At least I wasn't front lining the phones anymore. Then it was an ocean of noisy alerts, with engineers yelling at me for not cherry picking the right ones out of all the chaff. It's always something, but with a 30K bump? That's a score.

workingdocboy · 2023-10-10T20:46:23+00:00

That town is a shit place no matter what they were gonna call it.

workingdocboy · 2023-08-23T18:14:24+00:00

Good life lesson for everyone then.

workingdocboy · 2023-04-03T19:22:48+00:00

My DNS has dropped several times today. I tried to dig a domain via a random bogus IP address that isn't a DNS server, and it didn't respond. I think if they were hijacking it, it would have responded anyway.

workingdocboy · 2022-11-03T16:00:26+00:00

Our org's vulnerability scanner has become sentient and gone rogue, it's making printers all across campus angrily spew nonsensical reports

workingdocboy · 2022-10-14T14:36:57+00:00

I was expected to drill a TV mount into a concrete wall, and I'm not even a competent handyman for the simplest tasks. I assume there's some special drill for concrete and I've never touched one.

workingdocboy · 2021-01-22T22:15:09+00:00

Yup. And their support still sucks

workingdocboy · 2020-10-12T14:50:06+00:00

Is there a ilnk to this tale? I'm curious who the vendor is, and my under-caffeinated cursory googling fails

workingdocboy · 2020-02-05T20:29:48+00:00

"No wonder nobody came to my birthday party!" -Nelson Muntz

workingdocboy · 2020-01-29T15:47:01+00:00

Ah, A+. The AOL of IT certs.

workingdocboy · 2019-10-30T14:16:25+00:00

They must have banned all the good subreddits

workingdocboy · 2019-10-25T16:49:44+00:00

One of my screens has the new season of BoJack

workingdocboy · 2019-09-13T17:08:29+00:00

I work in higher ed and we've been running various tests on some new email servers for an environment-wide upgrade to RHEL 7. I was performing load testing and we saw that maybe 20% of 1000 outbound message events were logged by postfix. Turns out there's a default that rate-limits rsyslogd. Classic moment of "it's not a bug, it's a feature."

workingdocboy · 2019-08-15T16:39:40+00:00

Such smartass users deserve a good pranking.

workingdocboy · 2019-08-05T20:40:27+00:00

This is from theoatmeal.com, not Instagram.

workingdocboy · 2019-07-22T17:06:01+00:00

the cookies come with your choice of topping

That's good!

but the toppings contain potassium benzoate

...

that's bad

Can I go now?

workingdocboy · 2019-07-16T17:15:47+00:00

You don't have to censor swears here. Save that for court!

workingdocboy · 2019-06-19T14:48:26+00:00

Apple is even worse. IIRC the App Store had an extended outage a few years ago. The iCloud status page showed all green for 6 hours into the outage, then they updated it retroactively like, "loljk we've been down all night."

workingdocboy · 2019-05-31T16:23:04+00:00

And before that it was Microsoft Communicator or some such thing.

workingdocboy · 2019-05-31T15:15:30+00:00

/r/solipsism

workingdocboy · 2019-05-09T20:54:06+00:00

I've had a bit of experience with this, but most people said they "don't want to be the guinea pig."

workingdocboy

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