Earlio
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Monday 17 August 2026 20:04:50 GMT
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Yesmontanalikethestate :
Every company is just three spreadsheets in a trenchcoat
2026-08-17 22:25:18
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Elliot Silberman :
There’s nothing as permanent as a good temporary solution
2026-08-17 21:35:57
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Theodore Donald Kerabatsos :
For viewers not employed in tech, this is unreasonably realistic. This conversation is far more plausible than it has any business being, lol.
2026-08-17 22:55:17
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Super Distracted :
There is an uncomfortable amount of critical IT infrastructure like this.
2026-08-17 21:48:34
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Chris :
every enterprise, Healthcare, or govt position I've encountered 🙃
2026-08-17 21:14:40
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TheFrugalRaconteurs :
If I had a nickel for every time someone proposed a solution that would end up like Gary, I’d have $1.37. And no, I don’t know where those pennies came from.
2026-08-17 22:14:11
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JoeJoeOreo 🍉 🌻 :
Air traffic controller here, we use 3.5” diskettes to update our DOS based information system.
2026-08-18 00:07:00
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Joe Hill :
“There’s also a circle made of salt and some candles on the floor.” “Oh yeah that’s a circle of protection against demonic forces. Gary hates those”
2026-08-18 01:54:27
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kales1011 :
We are in the midst of updating 5k devices to windows 11 and we have a server I am not allowed to touch that is running windows 7. WINDOWS 7.
2026-08-18 03:09:42
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Fidget :
A key part of the emergency restoration plan for my company is a license dongle that lives in my backpack. It has a limited number of uses but the only way to check how many uses it has left is to use one. It’s okay though, my coworker also has a similar license dongle but his has more uses left. No one thinks there is anything wrong with both of us taking PTO and leaving the country/state at the same time.
2026-08-17 23:21:26
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Raz 🇨🇦 :
You can't add it to the runbook because the auditors will then learn that Gary exists. That would be a disaster
2026-08-18 01:24:22
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John Q Public :
Gary gets paid $300,000 a year and comes into the office once every six months. Gary does whatever he wants.
2026-08-18 01:31:26
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Theresa ❌ :
Every company great or small is running off an excel spreadsheet created by a guy who retired 30 years ago. Some are lucky enough to have a pivot table.
2026-08-17 22:58:33
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Theron Corse :
Do you work at a university? Because that sounds very familiar.
2026-08-20 16:30:43
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mrskutler :
We had one of those and it caught on fire and burned down the building
2026-08-20 13:35:40
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Taylor :
This made me want to quit a job I do not have
2026-08-18 20:29:35
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Clueless Craftsman :
If it ain’t broke…
2026-08-20 11:54:29
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Matt 🇵🇸🇨🇩 :
yep, tech and apps are not replaced until they completely fail and they will patch it for years before actually upgrading, because it's hard.
2026-08-20 13:58:15
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random idiot :
last month i shut down a Gary. the business next door used to also rent my space. they left Gary in one of the closest. so I unplugged him and they were down for 3 days till one of the workers mentioned it to me and I said I had Gary. now they pay me 25 percent of my rent to keep Gary running and in the closest
2026-08-17 22:46:07
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Riley :
my job before last had this exact payroll server. It finally went offline one day… in the middle of payroll… because it caught on fire
2026-08-18 03:09:48
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raeyeth :
and this company is worth $1.6B, you've definitely heard of it
2026-08-17 22:36:34
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hetsiie :
To be fair! we managed to get ransomware on our infrastructure a few years back. The server that saved us was a Windows Server 2003 machine we ran backups on. The reason it saved us was because it ran a 32-bit OS and the malware was for 64-bit 😂 I was not the one that set that up. I have since upgraded EVERYTHING
2026-08-17 21:58:56
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juli with one i :
I feel the Texas power grid runs off something like this.
2026-08-17 23:24:59
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ArthurW🇨🇦 :
Over a decade ago, I worked in a helpdesk and one of our customers was a lady who maintained an AS400 server which supported the entire business. She was not trained in IT, but had learned enough 5250 to keep the system moving. I suspect she is still working today and has job security for life.
2026-08-17 23:36:38
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Max random :
When I used to be a sysop, took over an office building and could not for the life of me find their on perm…. They had remodeled and closed the room off with the equipment…. Asking why “nobody went in there anyways and it’s always been up and running”…. Had to demo the hidden door out
2026-08-18 00:55:59
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