this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
202 points (97.6% liked)

Asklemmy

44151 readers
1538 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Give us the cheat codes to your industry/place of work!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Sanctus 55 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Corporate IT: I see nearly everything you do on your computer. I can see exactly how long what application is open. If I ask you to restart your computer, you don't, and you somehow get me in front of it, restarting it better not fix it or your next ticket is gonna be low priority no matter what. If you want in with IT, always open a ticket and include as much info as you can clearly convey. Snacks and bribes won't always work with those of us who are very antisocial.

[โ€“] slazer2au 25 points 6 months ago

Snacks and bribes won't always work with those of us who are very antisocial.

Always ask the person you are trying to bribe what they like to be bribed with.

[โ€“] Xanis 6 points 6 months ago

I've dealt with my share of PC issues and apart from digging in and writing scripts, I'm an advanced end user. One time le tired IT guy needed to remote in for some issue I didn't have appropriate access to deal with. He seemed rather startled when I opened notepad and said "Hi!"

I also swear I began to get more difficult to recognize fake phishing attempts shortly after.

Dave, if you're reading this you never caught me with one! Gotta try harder!

[โ€“] AgentGrimstone 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Can you hijack the camera and see us too?

[โ€“] Sanctus 2 points 6 months ago

No and if I found a way I would file a report against any other IT agent who did. That's invasion of privacy IMO. Microsoft can tho, remember the Kinect?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yes, of course. Though your camera light would alert you of the usage, unless of course, your IT guy ordered a camera that can deactivate the light via software (or simply opened the camera and yanked the light)