The IT department is taking complete control over the lab in the next few months forcing my boss into early retirement. They’ve been remote for the past year and complain they don’t get enough respect even though my department does a majority of technical maintenance. My office is right next to theirs. How do I frick with the IT guy?
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I know my way around dicking about hardware and software programming. I don’t want to do anything illegal that will jeopardize my employment.
Why do you want to frick with them?
Because they’re forcing my boss to retire so they can maintain control over a department they haven’t done anything for in the past year. Also they’re cutting our hours to half.
So is your IT department also the exact same people as your HR department and management?
Because it sounds like you're a moron who doesn't understand how businesses work trying to lash out at people who aren't to blame for your problems.
HR is backing them because they haven’t actually been on site for a while and they think it’s best to get them rolling again. If you didn’t read my boss is the current management. So it’s currently 2 vs. 1
To the best of my knowledge just networking.
>HR is backing them
So HR is making the decision to cut your hours, not the IT department. Good to know. Why don't you seem to have a problem with them?
>If you didn’t read my boss is the current management.
Really? He's the ONLY management in the whole company? And despite being the ONLY management, he's chosen to "force" himself to retire and give approval to all this, but you somehow don't have a problem with him?
Are you genuinely moronic? Do you think that IT departments just waltz right into the upper management's meetings and say "Frick everyone else, WE'RE the ones in charge here!"
Yes and Yes. He’s worked here since the 70s and middle management quit to avoid rolling over.
>Are you genuinely moronic?
>Yes and Yes.
Great, thanks for clearing that up. Perhaps you should learn more about how a business operates before trying to tell other people that your boss is somehow has no responsibility for any decisions made in your company despite being the only management in said company.
So like what are they doing? How do you know it's the IT department?
If I knew exactly what they were doing I would be in IT myself. I imagine they work from home eating chips pinging downed domains, port 22 into building servers, and doing monthly maintenance on a portal.
>Set workstations to DHCP
>If you have no access, boot a linux live image and frick the hosts file
>Plug an ethernet cable in two ports of the same router
>Frick the wifi in the office with one of those wifi socs that clone the wifi or make it innacessible, so they don't have any idea of what's going on
If they are at all good at their jobs and have anything worth a shit in networking equipment and software controls in place expect that it would only take a short while to be found out, and most of this wouldn't even work.
For instance - DHCP is likely already in place on them.
Hosts files frick with DNS, which is either step 2 or 3 of network diagnostics, and fricking with the hosts file will be noticed by most security software and corrected, and even if it isn't and someone has to manually do it your entire department is now on red alert for a security breach.
Plugging 2 ports together on a router/switch will either do nothing, or quickly be found and fixed and the person who connected the cable tracked down.
Most decent wifi gear will see this and send an alert, if it is enough that it causes a disruption expect a sniffer to come out to find the source and if it disappears and reappears regularly expect they will narrow it down to the person who has it pretty quickly.
>they’re cutting our hours to half
Implying this is a bad thing?
if one is paid hourly or the staffing is based on available staff hours - yeah. that might be considered a bad thing.
Delete system32.
Would it be possible to make a tarball with Sys32 removed and keep that on a flash drive to roll back random computers? Also we have Mac and Windows so I don’t know the Mac equivalent of Sys32.
"Anon I-"
Did I say something moronic anon? Did I make an oopsie woopsie fricky wucky? Did I shit and piss my pants a little?
Set all the nics to 100
Good way to get brought in for questioning and possible termination. As soon as someone reports performance issues they will see the connect at 100mbit on the switch and go to the far end and notice that someone has been manually messing with the network card settings.
Most decent switches have cable diagnostics built into them, in cisco IOS land this is as simple as "test cable-diagnostics tdr interface {$INTERFACE_ID}". It will show you exactly what is damaged and generally where in the cable. You will also see things like FCS errors on the ports which is a reasonably good indicator of a layer 1 issue, this would be found VERY quickly and determined to be sabotage as cuts in cables with no natural cause are normally pretty clear.
Shh I’m trying to get op fired
Asking about this shit here pretty much precludes them having the ability to do pretty much anything this malicious without screwing it up and getting caught, no need to concern your self.
>Set all the nics to 100
Replace all the cables with 100 mbit instead?
Still very visible. Basically you would see one pair going all the way to their computer, then the rest just stopping open a few meters short at their wall jack. or an impedance mismatch or something like that.
Seeing this once would indicate that someone had a bad cable. Seeing this everywhere would cause a very quick investigation and once they were all determined to be cat 5 (non-e) and different than the ones being used/deployed would be at first confusing, then concerning, then annoying. HR would be involved and probably tell people to stop doing pranks as a stern warning at the least. Could also be seen as sabotage and be subject to terminations or damages being sought.
What exactly do they do? Because I have some ideas but I'm afraid it will affect your department and not theirs.
Make tiny cuts in ethernet cables so they have to thair hairs out why things are not working.
You know the stock holders would’ve decided this right IT doesn’t have the power to take over your department and kick someone out
It’s not a business that is traded friend.
>IT dept gets any sort of power
Where do you work and how can I apply?
Adult education.
Like a vocational school?
More expensive
"adult education"
you can say "moron training"
>Working remote is comfy
>It took a while to convince managers that remote work is not the end of the world
>Seven months go by and the company hires a student, they too get to work remote
>Anons, were going to work in the office again
>What happened?
>The new person kept having connection issues, and we can't troubleshoot hardware that isn't ours, you'll have to use the computers here
>Turns out the new person was creating the issues to avoid working and two months after in office work they get the boot
Normalgays ruin everything
Submit a bunch of duplicate high urgency tickets and when they come to fix break something else and tell them "it was working before you touched it".
You sound like a b***h and the IT guys sound based, not going to help you.
ITT: Some newly hired pajeet IT dept fearing a bunch of pranks and reprisals by replaced whytppl ask for suggestions on they should look out for.
Stop being a wagecuck
If they use AZURE and you have local admin rights install a bunch of random crap and setup a bunch of local admin non azure accounts and keep doing it over the years to mess with them and their stupid security reports. Also open up one of the network switches and take off and clean some of chips that use heat sinks. Put the heat sinks back on but as loose as possible with no thermal pads. Over time the chips will fail but sometimes they will start working again but it will also waste their time constantly looking into the issue.
>get a cheap pi or some other small netclient sized pc (preferrably the same manufacturer as most of your orgs pcs so the mac address doesn't stand out)
>configure with PXE and a boot image that starts directly into DBAN autonuke or WindowsPE with a diskpart 'clean all' script if they're UEFI/Secure Boot gays
>it can even be on wifi, it doesn't have to be plugged in to a switch to host a boot payload, as long as its in the same DHCP pool
Just go to the mdf room and start randomly unplugging wires and plugging them into different ports
While this would be effective to piss people off -
MDF would likely have logged or at least restricted access. This is an obvious malicious act as well. Something like this will leave time stamps as well.
Limited number of people can get in.
Known time frame.
Buildings always have cameras.
It is a clear act of sabotage.
If the IT team is doing their job right it will not take them long to fix this as well. This is not a great plan of attack unless you think you can mitigate all the identifying factors and completely evade suspicion; because you would likely not enjoy the consequences.
Also it is a great opportunity for the IT team to show off if they can dodge reasonable responsibility, are on the ball, and can fix it quickly, could back fire.
OP, Dad here. Son, you’re afraid of change, you’re hoping to keep things as they are. But life is change. Rather than acting out like you were as a child, it’s time to grow up and accept it, and move with it.
If you don’t , you’ll be seen as someone who is anti- to the company goals, and “retired” too.
Son, embrace the change. Tell your boss that you’re going to talk to the IT manager to see what you can do to help with the transition.
Neither of you have the power. Join the winning team and you might have a better future.
Sunday dinner is at 8pm, don’t be late.
Change their wallpaper and shuffle their desktop icons. That'll teach em.
let them brew themselves that shitty cup of coffee and then take a nice long drink