Mastodawn

Company wide email last week: there is an emergency patch for some software you’ve never heard of. Please update manually NOW; if it’s not patched by Tuesday, your machine will forcibly reboot.

Me: o software management portal of my work machine, is this software even installed, that I might update it?

portal: it’s not installed, no.

[Tuesday comes]

Your machine is going down NOW in the middle of the workday because you FAILED TO INSTALL THE PATCH, SINNER.

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Matúš Chochlík

@0xabad1dea at our company we have quarterly all-staff knowledge transfer sessions that are with big fanfare organized weeks in advance. Last time I was giving a presentation to 50 people and (because of some trouble with multi-monitor support in the nvidia driver in Linux) I booted up Windows on my company laptop. Right in the middle of the presentation it started upgrading from 10 to 11 without asking about my opinions. I mentioned it to the head of IT and he was like: LOL, sorry I guess.. :P