Wasim is not a printer
Aug. 7th, 2007 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andygatesWell I woke up this morning
Fell outta bed
One hundred new users
They all seein' red
Gub'mint done hired them
All at the same time
Their logon credentials
Well that job is mine
And I got those new user blues
(ba deedely dee da, da dee da dum dum)
Must'a been a bad bad boy, oh yeah, if this is how I pay my dues...
(break to guitar riff)
I know there are ways to script it, but we have a fiddly and Byzantine setup which means that each new user still requires plenty of Mark One Eyeball. We normally trickle-create new users, which works fine, but some cunning linguist in the Department of Health decided to hire fourteen thousand all at once. That might turn out to be smart once the dust has settled, it might not (right now it seems sparklingly, iridescently dumb). And after a whole damn day of these, I'm close to hallucinatory despair.
Right-click the organisation. New > User? Printer? Mouseslip. No, wait! Wasim is not a printer. He's a first-year junior doctor. Do not feed Wasim toner cartridges! At least not while he's on his general medicine rotation.
You probably had to be there.
Fell outta bed
One hundred new users
They all seein' red
Gub'mint done hired them
All at the same time
Their logon credentials
Well that job is mine
And I got those new user blues
(ba deedely dee da, da dee da dum dum)
Must'a been a bad bad boy, oh yeah, if this is how I pay my dues...
(break to guitar riff)
I know there are ways to script it, but we have a fiddly and Byzantine setup which means that each new user still requires plenty of Mark One Eyeball. We normally trickle-create new users, which works fine, but some cunning linguist in the Department of Health decided to hire fourteen thousand all at once. That might turn out to be smart once the dust has settled, it might not (right now it seems sparklingly, iridescently dumb). And after a whole damn day of these, I'm close to hallucinatory despair.
Right-click the organisation. New > User? Printer? Mouseslip. No, wait! Wasim is not a printer. He's a first-year junior doctor. Do not feed Wasim toner cartridges! At least not while he's on his general medicine rotation.
You probably had to be there.
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Date: 2007-08-07 03:10 pm (UTC)That's first-rate comedy, that is. I'm going to see what I can do about making "Wasim is not a printer" standard usage around here to indicate unintentional misrepresentation (or misuse) of a resource. eg: "You're trying to use e-mail for 30MB file transfers; Wasim is not a printer."
Also, my boss spends (he estimates) half his time doing user account management. He's automated a lot of stuff, but any organization eventually gets enough weird exceptions and niches that it seems that nearly everyone manages to fall into at least one of them.