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'Numpty new boy' lets the boss take fall for mailbox obliteration

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Re: I wouldn't do that

"What do you mean all ownership on all homefolders is gone!"

Scene: picture a bitterly cold and miserable European winter. Boss decides to take his new girlfriend to a sunny Middle Eastern country for a remote office deployment rather than send someone more technical... The remote office requirement is fairly basic to allow access to central finance systems as new projects reach maturity and provide connectivity to HQ as the basis for more services in future. Things were a little rocky when he was unable to get the remote end of the site-to-site VPN up due to "ISP issues" which also significantly limited the rest of the teams ability to assist. Towards the end of the fifth week of a two week trip where 4-5 hour calls to the boss were standard:

What do you mean you made all 45 users Enterprise Admins and they still can't access the file shares you created on a new server?! Why?

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