And now his watch is ended |
Decommission a machine that's been in production more than ten years |
1500 |
Areola Bold |
Find a user's porn stash in their fonts folder |
25 |
Aw Fuck |
Execute a command that reset the NIC, while logged in remotely |
-100 |
Aw Fuck Deluxe |
Get an Aww Fuck while more than 4 hours drive from the device in question |
-2500 |
Buddha |
Worked a whole day and never spoke to a human soul |
100 |
Completionist |
Carry out password resets for every user in an org |
50 |
Don't wake Daddy |
Successfully patch production environment during off hours without user opening a down ticket during the restarts |
150 |
Dr. Dump |
Diagnosed Issue from Memory Dump |
50 |
Easter Egg |
Find something unexpected and noteworthy of a predecessor/old system |
25 |
Error Prone |
Make IT coworker google ID10T error code |
10000 |
F*#k it, we'll do it live! |
Successfully set up a production system you have no training for without vendor help. |
1000 |
Failure's Not an Option |
Recover virtual environment after SAN controllers fail to failover properly |
99 |
Full Circle |
Fix an issue after finding a solution you posted online and forgot about |
150 |
Golden Mind |
Memorize all of your servers IPs |
500 |
Grossly Incandescent |
Legitimately blame light fixtures for a problem |
200 |
Gutenberg |
Wrote the guide to fix an issue that the vendor themselves couldn't fix |
50 |
Hands Free |
When you're here and I try that, it suddenly works |
5 |
Hans Gruber |
The backups didn't work |
-500 |
Hey while your here |
Get asked to fix another issue not related to why you were there in the first place |
10 |
How Do You Know That? |
Use skills obtained in a non-IT hobby to fix an IT problem. |
250 |
I like to live dangerously |
deploy to production on Friday after 3pm |
50 |
I'm in! |
Use an exploit to break in to your own equipment because the creds aren't known |
50 |
I'm taking credit anyway |
The user thanked you for fixing their problem. You didn't fix it and have no idea why or how it went away on it's own |
100 |
IT Crowd |
Resolve issue by rebooting |
5 |
It was DNS |
Successfully prove that DNS was in fact the problem |
10 |
Its not me, its you |
ISP says there is nothing wrong on their end, because no one else is reporting it. Later it is deemed to be on their end |
50 |
Mission accomplished |
Closed Ticket because user no longer works here. |
30 |
Windows patch broke the server |
Temporarily make a server or service unavailable due to applying vendor prescribed patches or updates |
20 |
Just the Tip |
Resolve a support ticket by properly plugging in a cable that was only partially plugged in. |
5 |
Out of Office |
Successfully take two weeks of vacation without anyone calling you about an issue. |
1000 |
Peon |
With a senior title, drop everything to fix a CEO's minor issue |
-5 |
Who, me? |
Dumpster some critical service and successfully recover it without anybody realizing it was all your fault. |
500 |
The Ol' Switcheroo |
Onboard and Deactivate the same user without them ever starting work |
10 |
Reconfigure the Primary Power Coupling |
resolve issue by plugging it in |
5 |
Quickie |
Quick question from clueless coworker while on your way to fix urgent issue |
10 |
Not My Monkey |
Successfully hand off an issue you have nothing to do with |
50 |
Walmart Greeter |
Successfully roll back a change before anyone notices |
100 |
You're alone on this one, Son |
When you have a problem and even the company's support cannot help you because it never happened to anyone else in the world. |
-250 |
John McClane |
You successfully recover the system from backups |
100 |
Nakatomi Plaza |
A critical hard drive failure takes the system down |
-50 |
Oooh! Shiny! |
Take home a piece of hardware that is no longer required by the business |
1000 |
Captain Tripps |
Have an anti-virus update quarantine critical system files and crash at least 10% of your site. |
-1000 |
Just doin' my job ma'am |
Maintain professionalism when the user is gushing after you fix something |
100 |
Trick Shot |
Accurately identify an issue without even looking at it |
50 |
What did you just do? |
Cause an outage by unplugging the wrong cable |
-50 |
Nothing more permanent |
Create a temporary fix that becomes the permanent solution |
-1000 |
Russian Roulette |
Successfully reboot a server with over 600 days of uptime |
250 |
Task Failed Successfully |
Recieve a self-contradicting error message |
20 |
Momma taught me good |
Successfully complete a month of backups |
300 |
That was easy |
Fix something just by walking into the room |
50 |
Miracle worker |
Fix something that everyone else thought was unfixable |
100 |
VMify and forget it |
Convert a failing physical server to a VM to avoid having to rebuild it from scratch |
250 |
Obscurist |
Find the answer to your issue beyond the 10th page of your Google search |
200 |
Masochist |
Accidentally volunteer for work you didn't want to do |
-200 |
Ooopsie |
accidentaly reboot the wrong server |
20 |
Security Specialist |
Catch a user doing something illegal |
150 |
The Whisperer |
An end user you've trained successfully recognizes and deletes a malicious email |
200 |
Lie Detector |
Audit logs prove the client broke it |
100 |
That's a penis! |
Discover a user is looking at porn on the company network |
5 |
What's That Smell? |
Stay at work for over 36 hours |
13 |
RTFM |
Find the solution for something by reading the product manual |
25 |
Robot Overlord |
Write scripts to automate menial, time consuming, life draining tasks. |
1 |
Jedi Mind Trick |
Get a problem user or client to admit they were totally wrong without making them feel bad |
50 |
yOu'Re a WiZarD!!1 |
Fix a simple problem (i.e. compact and repair a DB, plug a cable in, etc.), leaving the user in complete awe of your unrivaled technical prowess |
50 |
Scream Test Artist |
Solve a mystery by turning something off and waiting for someone to complain in order to figure out what the hell it is |
100 |
Where is your God now? |
Crash Task Manager |
2500 |
Hasta la Vista, Baby! |
Delete your own credentials from the network after being laid off |
-1000 |