Never use an embarrassing password for your computer at work...

Why (other than incompetence or fraud) would your network administrator need your password?
 
A lady that works in our lab had computer problems, so our off site IT provider asked her for her password so he could log on and fix the problem. She said "I can't tell you". He said why? She said "oh ok, its cindyisabitch :grin:. Cindy is the other girl that works in the lab. :grin:
 
I worked for a crap hole for about 3 months. My network password was "bite me". The boss was not amused when I told him my password on the way out the door for greener pastures.
 
the_huge said:
Why (other than incompetence or fraud) would your network administrator need your password?
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For instance, a user's account keeps locking and we need to investigate where and why it keeps locking. We'll reset her password to the previous one in case it's locked into a website or device that is trying to use the old one, hence locking her account out. Stuff like that.
 
Best one I ever heard was the girl spelling out for me....

"S....e....x.....d....w....a....r.....f.......69"

Uh, what?
 
We can't ask for passwords but it sure is fun to ask students to verify their email addresses. Some of the ones they give when they register are interesting to say the least. And they stammer when you ask them to read it off.
 
Unfortunately, we have password rules here that limit what you can use. You also have to change it every year and cannot reuse any of the past 25 passwords. It does make for stronger network security. But we did, in fact, have a guy change his password 25 time in one day so he could reuse his old password. That worked until we found out about it and changed the rules for him only(cannot ever repeat now). Yeah, we can be assholes about that here....

Heh heh.....
 
GergS said:
We can't ask for passwords but it sure is fun to ask students to verify their email addresses. Some of the ones they give when they register are interesting to say the least. And they stammer when you ask them to read it off.
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as a joke last year I bought the domain name "douchebagtsunami.com" but never did anything with it...when I was renewing some stuff with GoDaddy the guy on the phone kept asking if there "wasn't a product I wanted to renew, like perhaps a DOMAIN NAME"....finally I told him that the only domain name we currently had up for renewal was douchebagtsunami and that we were letting it lapse and he replied "I just wanted to hear you say that out loud" :embarrassed:
 
Mark Wein said:
as a joke last year I bought the domain name "douchebagtsunami.com" but never did anything with it...when I was renewing some stuff with GoDaddy the guy on the phone kept asking if there "wasn't a product I wanted to renew, like perhaps a DOMAIN NAME"....finally I told him that the only domain name we currently had up for renewal was douchebagtsunami and that we were letting it lapse and he replied "I just wanted to hear you say that out loud" :embarrassed:
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haha yes we don't get much joy at our jobs so we have to create our own
 
I once worked with a client that didn't want to give me her password. But I had to log in as her to fix the problem. After going back and forth she said 'Do Me'. I replied 'Okay, dome it is.' It took me about 30 seconds to solve her issue then.
 
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