Have you ever pwnd your boss on accident and felt abit guilty?

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Ok, Im in IT. \o/ [the young type who older users hate] :D

Classic scenario, We were installing some new machines (me and the IT manager). IT Manager was on a newly installed PC and was doing some installs of software, he proceeded to the network share.

The network path was not found

Hmm, is this the right share he asks me.

I check. Yep. ... is the network cable plugged in? I ask [obvious question]....

:eek:

I think he felt abit of a tool in a room full of people. Oops. I did feel abit guilty though. :confused: Should I?

As soon as he realised he was like, "yeah yeah alright, carry on what you doing" in a serious face, almost blushing! :o


Anyone else had any similar experiences?
 
yep- have done stuff like that to my boss many a time.

he also does it to me on occasion.

we both have a sense of humour, so its all good.

if your boss has an issue with it, then he really needs to grow up
 
Easy mistake to make if your like me and try and think of the most complicated cause first lol. I agree though you should definitely think of the most simple things first starting from physical.
 
I'm in IT but my bosses are usually MD types who are so painfully easy to pwn there's no sport in it. In fact it's better to make their pitiful 'problems' seem more complicated than they are so they continue to think I'm worth what they pay me.
 
Tru said:
I'm in IT but my bosses are usually MD types who are so painfully easy to pwn there's no sport in it. In fact it's better to make their pitiful 'problems' seem more complicated than they are so they continue to think I'm worth what they pay me.
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sounds so similar to when I worked in the councils IT department, "senior" analysts paid 30k/year who didn't know what proxy settings where, what ipconfig was for or how to make bootable CD/DVDs.

"pwned" regularly by many younger, less well paid members of staff ;)
 
DannyDan said:
Yes

No :eek:
No :eek:
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LOL!!!! i now have an office full of people looking at me :p

im like the OP i'm the youngest in the office but i'm the IT Administrator, so i get to tell people what to do :p - the other day i was in the build room with the head techie, and he went to me,

"can you check to see if these laptops has SP2 on them"
me: "sure" *turns on - windows is loading*
me: "well this one doesn't" *staring at the windows loading screen

he looks at me

him: "how can you tell?"
me: "when sp2 is installed the word "Professional" or "Home Edition" disappears from the underneith of Windows XP logo

he was shocked because he had never realised it,

i've only been in the company 2 weeks so there havent been any decent pwnage situations yet.... ;)
 
I suspect the fact that, every payday, your boss pwns you, helps ease the pain of being pwned by an underling :p

Hmmm will have to think of some workplace pwning :)
 
Phate said:
LOL!!!! i now have an office full of people looking at me :p

im like the OP i'm the youngest in the office but i'm the IT Administrator, so i get to tell people what to do :p - the other day i was in the build room with the head techie, and he went to me,

"can you check to see if these laptops has SP2 on them"
me: "sure" *turns on - windows is loading*
me: "well this one doesn't" *staring at the windows loading screen

he looks at me

him: "how can you tell?"
me: "when sp2 is installed the word "Professional" or "Home Edition" disappears from the underneith of Windows XP logo

he was shocked because he had never realised it,

i've only been in the company 2 weeks so there havent been any decent pwnage situations yet.... ;)
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YEAH!

You told that MUTHA.
 
Tru said:
I'm in IT but my bosses are usually MD types who are so painfully easy to pwn there's no sport in it. In fact it's better to make their pitiful 'problems' seem more complicated than they are so they continue to think I'm worth what they pay me.
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Good advice there ;)

This was just an off the cuff remark thinking of course its in, kinda like, small talk. :o

I do feel like, I made my superior look daft. Which was not a good move, like putting the Queen next to a Rook in Chess :(
 
I did a few times at my old job, he just used to try and lie his way out of it most of the time by pretending he had already said what I said or something like that.

It used to wind me up quite a lot actually because he thought he was always right!

One which springs to mind is one day he made me work late to make some templates to print onto stickers, and I told him straight away that the printer we had at the time couldnt print right to the edge of the paper, but he insisted that it could.

I spent some time making the templates and printed them, showed him that it had left margins of about 1cm all around the sheet and he said, "you should have told me from the start instead of wasting your time trying"!!!
 
I think it was about 1999 when our new IT Director visited the Northeast office for a viewing of the facilities (which consisted of a server in one corner, a UPS and our 'internet PC' which was an old box sitting in the middle of the office connected a Demon email account). I was sitting there, grabbing the office emails (such sophistication!) and he walks over, points at the modem and says, "what's that?" .

Where's the sport in making someone like that look a tool? :)
 
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