Posts under ‘PITA’

I don’t know why, but PITA always have something with password.
PITA changed his password yesterday when he return from 2 weeks leave. Our company system make password expire every 3 months, so you will have to change your password every 3 months.
What happen was, he forgotten what did he put for the new password [...]

You know PITA has reach the max power of PITA-ness when he can be a pain even when on leave.
I was rather surprised that our teamlead approved PITA’s two weeks leave. He has a very important project that is suppose to roll out at the end of the month. Although he has completed the coding, [...]

After getting so much from PITA, I’m glad to announce that I finally had my revenge today. OK lah… just a bit only.
PITA came over to ask me to explain to him how to run a job. He need to do it on Sunday. I’m the only person in the team who had run that [...]

Its been quite some time since PITA strikes. To be fair, he is sometimes a great help. But other time, he is just who he is…. a Pain In The Ass.
I reported the error to PITA. It is his job to verify that it is really a software bug and send the error to vendor [...]

Yes, he did it again.
Remember my colleague was saying he changed the password? Those password are for the development and staging servers. Not production servers. You see, the development servers’ user id and password is being shared among many teams, although our team is the owner of the id. So when he changed the password, [...]

Saw this on my colleague’s blog today.
To DK
Why is it that whenever u are on leave, i sure kena something one huh? Maybe we shld take leave together leh. Really!! This is the 3rd time liao lor. Haiz..
From: xxx
Sorry lah. Not I want 1. But you know lah, when you take leave, it just [...]

Been formatting PC for the whole day in office.
Like I mentioned, it’s really a no brainer job. Just time consuming as there are quite a number of steps to do.
Everything went on smoothly until one of the PC prompt me for password when I turn on the power. Argh. Someone set the bootup [...]

Our team has been sharing one login account to 1 of the system. The person who owns the login id has resigned for quite some time, but we didn’t unregister his id until recently.
So another colleague went to apply for an id to share among the whole team. When he got his id, he [...]

This is actually a grey area.
This is what happen. Colleague A used to be assigned this task in the team. There is a re-org in the team and A’s task has been handed over to B. Few months down the road, someone discovered that there is an error in 1 of the item A did [...]

Continue to help setup the new PC for some of the colleagues who are on leave on Friday.
So as usual, I connect the new PC to a network point, help my colleague map to the shared drive and ask them to copy their data to the new PC.
Then one colleague asked me this question:“So I [...]