"Who, Me? Welcome to Monday morning and another installment of Who, Me? For the uninitiated, it's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of your greatest misses, and how you rebuilt a career afterward. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Ted" who joined a nonprofit company that ran a small consultancy team providing its clients with tech services."
"As I went through the interview process, I learned they were essentially locked out of their servers because the previous team did not leave admin passwords behind," Ted wrote. "They asked if I could get into the servers, I said yes, and they handed me a huge pile of old notes. With that "documentation" to hand, Ted managed to wrest control of the servers, a feat that earned him the job."
A new hire joined a nonprofit consultancy after learning the prior tech team had left without admin passwords. The new hire used old notes to regain control of servers and won the position. The hire was then asked to manage backup systems, discovered undocumented virtual machines on the virtualization platform, and deleted them, which later destroyed a certification lab. The hire became the only consultant delivering managed services, made frequent client-site visits, and inherited an enormous workload. An earlier team member returned to help but struggled to explain legacy system issues, compounding operational challenges.
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