First published on CloudBlogs on Feb 20, 2015
This is a guest post by Brad Anderson , Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Client & Mobility. Over the last month you’ve been submitting some pretty amazing/terrible/hilarious stories to the “ Tales from Tech Support ” contest. I knew there would be some great stories to tell – and the IT community did not disappoint. :) As my team and I read these, there was no shortage of laughter, disbelief, and pity. Now that the submission phase is over, it’s time for the real decision making to begin: Starting today and running through next Friday (Feb. 27), voting is open to determine The Best Worst Story of Them All (the winner gets a Surface Pro 3!) from a carefully selected group of 10 finalists. [Using awards show voice] Here… are the nominees:
This is a guest post by Brad Anderson , Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Client & Mobility. Over the last month you’ve been submitting some pretty amazing/terrible/hilarious stories to the “ Tales from Tech Support ” contest. I knew there would be some great stories to tell – and the IT community did not disappoint. :) As my team and I read these, there was no shortage of laughter, disbelief, and pity. Now that the submission phase is over, it’s time for the real decision making to begin: Starting today and running through next Friday (Feb. 27), voting is open to determine The Best Worst Story of Them All (the winner gets a Surface Pro 3!) from a carefully selected group of 10 finalists. [Using awards show voice] Here… are the nominees:
- Unplug That! A story about a server room with an unreliable power supply – and an imperfect solution for future outages. Read it here .
- High-touch User. When passwords get lost in translation the further they move up the corporate ladder, a story about what “equals” success. Read it here .
- Tight Security. An account of the struggle between the most technologically sophisticated security and mankind’s earliest writing instruments. Read it here .
- Password File. A tragic tale of the public (and ostensibly well-intentioned) public sharing of usernames and passwords – and the chaos that followed. Read it here .
- Failing Backups. A tragicomedy (yes, that’s a word ) about the titanic struggle between floppy disks, magnetism, and ignorance. Read it here .
- Delete the CEO. A story about spearfishing, deleted emails, forgetting about deleting e-mails, promising that no e-mails were deleted, and the merits of data recovery. Read it here .
- Dubious Back-up. A story of the least sophisticated corporate data backup we’ve ever seen. Read here .
- The Wrong Time. In the tradition of all great speculative fiction , a story that goes far beyond circumventing IT – this is a tale of one accountant’s attempt to eliminate time itself . Read it here .
- Grandma WoW. An unexpectedly heartwarming story about how one computer support professional made sure a guild had its healer for the big raid. Read it here . And then call your grandma (or someone equally adorable).
- Lockdown Bypass. In a world with highly secure lockout policies, one IT Pro struggles to control an impossible threat: Analog watches. Read it here .
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