cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/23098977
Got a new job in November. It's not in IT, not even adjacent. I'm not a coder, so i guess this post is IT humor rather than programing humor. Anyhow, I've been using Linux for over a decade, hacking countless devices, selfhosting, helping others etc. I proudly consider myself half a nerd. A passionate hobbyist.
My employer is modern enough to have the whole admin run online: there's a clock punching app and one for customer communication, and lastly a website for employees to look at their scheduled shifts, hours worked & salary paid.
My boss (who isn't my employer) miscommunicated with me from day zero. I got nothing from her. Whenever I asked about some technical info she either told me to call tech support or - as if begrudgingly - gave me a link or a passcode without explaining how to use it - or simply didn't reply at all.
To make matters worse, she clearly misremembered a few things, forgot about documents I already sent her, and mispelled my last name, but always blamed me.Everything I got working was with the help of my coworkers, who aren't exactly tech savvy.
But I could not log into the employee website no matter how I tried (so many times) and so I couldn't see my upcoming shifts. One Monday I came late because of that. Of course this was perceived to be my fault. Unreliable. Too dumb to use the site. One Sunday I had to beg my coworkers to send me a screenshot of my shifts.
I now believe that my boss is actually the one who is clueless about these things. But because everybody uses Windows & Google, and all login and registering procedures are built along this path of least resistance, the whole thing kinda just works, even though nobody can trace the steps taken to get there.
It took a full month of me calling up the totem pole to figure out that all accounts require 2FA which nobody had told me - not even the web UI itself. To make that work, I had to log into a work laptop with my work account (and it worked immediately).
Afterwards we could not switch to the department account anymore because nobody remembered the login name - only the password which was taped to the laptop.
I had now "broken the computer". 2 coworkers nearly had an aneurism because of that. The fact that I had "fixed" it again after 15 minutes did not count.
In this workplace of tech-illiterate people, I am now known as the one guy who is utterly clueless about computers and must be kept away from them at all cost. Apart from feeling mistreated & misjudged, this hurts my ego more than I would have thought. But it's also kinda funny.
PS: There are more things fucked up here. Two more days and I'm out, and not looking back.
