youmadethisshitup
I really don’t even know how to write this one up.
I’m an IT nerd, I do IT stuff for an unnamed company. Over the past week I have been setting up a Network Attached Storage device. This requires setting up the user groups, the users, and the permissions for each group/user.
This morning a request came in to make a shared directory specifically for our sales department.
Later in the day a salesperson asks to set up their user/password. I set up their user and have them come to MY desk and have her type in her own password.
Hours later she says she can’t get in to her directory, after I had had sent her an e-mail with her information:
username: xxxxxxxxxxx
password: youmadethisshitup
Instead of typing in the password she had made only a couple hours before she had been attempting to log in using her username and “youmadethishitup”.
Added:
me: http://www.southfresh.org
bearded wonder: ….what the fuck is that all about
me: After typing in her password at MY DESK, not once, BUT TWICE TO CONFIRM IT
me: She types in “youmadethisshitup”
bearded wonder: LOL
me: It was really tough to relate exactly what happened.
me: The sales team asked for a shared drive
bearded wonder: lol
me: So I create one
me: Add them as users
me: And they need to make up passwords.
me: Since there’s not control panel where they can log in and change their info on their own, I’d rather have them type in their own password at my desk while I’m setting them up… without me looking
bearded wonder: did you ask her about it?
me: She asked me
me: “I can’t get in to the folder!”
me: “I keep typing in youmadethisshitup but it won’t connect”
bearded wonder: lol
bearded wonder: maybe this is her excuse to come visit you at your desk
me: “That’s because you made that shit up…. at my desk…. an hour ago….. remember?”
bearded wonder: This is turning into a “whose on first?” bit
me: “Well how am I supposed to know you didn’t change it to youmadethisshitup”