Apparently some IT wizkid deleted thousands of employees MS Azure credentials and now they all have to reimage their machines. LOL!
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Do you think it was an imitation of mass lay off via email notification and by shutting down your network access. This scenario happened to IT/tech sector people in 2022/Q12023…
What a total debacle and at the same time sending out phishing tests
I imagine MW isn’t thrilled about this.
A script deleted over 20,000 objects from Azure. Backups were not set up, so Microsoft said, "sorry." Cloud is not backed up unless you pay for it or do it yourself. Only way to re-enroll in the modern Era is reimage. Meanwhile, communication doesn't go out, and IT leadership is wearing Mardi Gras masks and celebrating in a conference room eating King cake. Had to get the Agile ceremony in during a crisis.
@3scc+1qEFI2t1 I would say its a bit of both.
IT going to test people in technical roles and lay off the people who fail… and agile gets a pass. Real smart
All those people working remote from the beach in Costa Rica had to fly in to get reimaged. They sure had nice tans standing in line at the Tech Cafe.
When you F-up that badly, Chevron must reimage the IT culprit(s) out of a job, asap. The company will look like @sses if they don’t.
Rolling out experimental systems like Company Portal to an entire company under the buz phrase “Agile” gets you promoted to your next gig before the train wreck happens. hard to fathom that for two years Company Portal could not uninstall anything it managed to install correctly, simply because they were waiting for feedback first.
Funny people say it’s because we outsourced IT. No it’s not. It’s because we allowed IT to buy in on all this digital stuff before it was ready.
I just noticed a large number of people waiting in the tech Cafe at the entrance but did not ask what was going on, so that was the issue, it was so busy that they had put coffee and pastry for folks waiting for their laptop to be fixed. Unbelievable how winning in any environment is so much dysfunctional to the point that many of the workforce have to wait for their laptops to be fixed due to so much cutting costs and putting incompetent people in charge!
Everyone keeps wanting IT cuts and to outsource everything. Well you get what you pay for with people who barely know English or what they are doing since outsourced IT is poor quality most of the time.
@2jpp Dont ya love outsourcing! Hope you enjoyed a little cultural enrichment!
Re-imaging is the IT solution to all problems now. The day or more of lost productivity to for the poor users that do need applications than above Teams, PowerPoint and Outlook is invisible to IT bean counters so it's a great solution.
Every single person you talk to on the Global IT help desk barely speaks English and no clue what they are talking about. How does a Fortune 500 company have such terrible IT support?
Reimaging a laptop is ITs solution to everything. Glad we have an army of IT folks on the payroll so they can waste everyones time..
IT dorks strike again. GFY.
Fake news - You don't need to reimage to get new Azure Credentials
Whoever did it will be the Next CFO ...
FGP style 😀
The complete ambivalence of IT towards their huge f ups is amazing. Bunch of Steve Urkel bumbling id--ts! Did I doooooo that?
This has been a test of the emergency layoff system.
This was only a test.
Do you have a ticket for that?
Sound like someone in IT is in for a major promotion.
Chevrons normal reaction to significant sc--w up,reward incompetency.
So much winning
I also heard more like 20,000 devices.
Those numbers are low actually, according to my time in IT getting my Modern Desktop fixed
About 4k laptops and 10k mobile devices got deleted. How does this happen?
It's not only outsourcing that causes this type of issue.
There have been numerous cases over many years when people have been removed from network access and even removed from company payroll due to some bright IT wonder not doing the correct checks.
This is what happens when you outsource.
@kmc, Chevron is so good at layoffs (and they happen so frequently) that they have disabling accounts down to a science.
I didn't lose access which is good ‐ I'd hate to have to wait for my machine to be reimaged. I was wondering what was happening to people though lol. It actually concerned me because I heard sometimes before layoffs companies will do a test run for cutting off access or disabling accounts.