This is a funny story about the most annoying user failing so hard we still laugh about it whenever someone remembers him. So this user was an off/on employee intern for the special engineering team. Was going to some uppity school but sorta got recruited to come work part time or summers. Seemed smart but just gave off this asshole moron sort of feel that you get from those people that are looking down on everyone. This guy had more help desk tickets than everyone, a specialized computer, endless trouble with him trying to block vnc and admin access to his machine (and failing to do so). Basically knew enough to be trouble and went out of his way to be then blamed us when he broke stuff. Always giving lectures about random security stuff, hacks, and other just random information that IT of course knows about and cares 0 about. Pretty annoying dude all around.
THEN, well cause he wasn’t really producing and failed at a few tasks that were given to him, he was fired. So we are cleaning up his crap and reclaiming his computer while BSing with the guys manager about him being annoying and the purchasing manager hits the brakes hard just through the external window this guy’s desk was facing. She looks in and starts pointing and laughing then turns around and heads inside. She shows up in this office while we are all wondering what the hell was so funny. Giggling to herself she moves the guys monitor to reveal a sticky note attached to the window directly behind the monitor with his password on it…FACE OUT. This is the bottom floor. Everyone walking by on the street could see the moron’s password. About hit the floor laughing. I mean maybe he just put it there or something to try to give IT one last problem but who knows.
Might be a tl;dr situation.
Short version: user had his password on a sticky note face out to the street level window.
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sonofx51
(SonofX51)
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True greatness, I just had a employee tell me she unplugged everything in order to have the floors waxed, re-plugged everything, and now it wont power on, after 20 mins of trouble shooting. I get her on a loaner and say ship it to me. It gets here and powers up on the first try. Talking to my boss later in the day, he says that while he was at her facility that morning, she grabbed him and stated her computer wouldnt power on, so he…TURNED ON THE POWER STRIP (facepalm), then she still sent the machine to me. SO…I’m sending it back, and told her I fixed it,lol
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ranhalt
(ranhalt)
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marruda
(Faythi)
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Sounds like he put it there on purpose to let anyone walking by outside into his machine. Ouch…
joe9013
(Gen. Ripper)
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So, in the end, was this a user problem, or a problem with… Windows…
I’ll see myself out the door now.
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gomachg
(Gregmfg)
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I’m so tired I thought the short version was TL;DR…
funny though!
matt7904
(Matt_P)
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I’ve had a few of these type of users. Most memorable one was a guy who use to work in IT and didn’t know how we managed email without MS Exchange. I told him what we were running for email was cheaper and had all the features we needed and he was baffled. Where he worked in IT was in the same industry but they had gone out of business a couple of years before (should have been another clue).
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bob-13
(Bob_13)
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no, no, Let me escort you out the short way… here’s the window…
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I love these, I log onto their machines and send a email to the whole team inviting them to a party.
I make sure to add their own email to the calendar invite several times to ensure they know of the party.
When they call and say their pc has been hacked, tell them they should look at a password keeper program (pass32.exe).
edrock
(Rock95)
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Its either a real juvenile move on his part to breach security or a boneheaded attempt at “hiding” his PW in plain sight. Either way, he exceeded his level of incompetence.
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bob-13
(Bob_13)
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Well… he might have just wanted to make sure no one in the office could read his password… unless it was sunny… or…
I read a story once where an idiot user wanted to sue a company because he felt the company and computers were picking on him. After lengthy discussions as to exactly what the problem was he stated the error message was way too personal.
Evidently when he logged in the first time he was required to change his password. His complaint was that the message saying something like, “it was too short” did not make him feel very manly because his new password was to be “MyPenis”.
miked
(Mike Diesel)
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Yeah, dude, you might want to give yourself a facepalm while you’re at it. I mean, you really didn’t have her check that before you told her to box it up and send it to you?
ajstringham
(Thanks A.J. Stringham)
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Yup…that’ll teach you guys to be too smart!! 
You can’t fix stupid…
A.J.
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