blah blah, not tech support, adept in technology, becomes go-to tech person. This story comes prior to the start of my current job - during my training, actually. It's for a student government position at the at-the-time educational institution I was attending.
As a new student government officer, the training was to cover some of the do's-and-don't's of over-the-summer work. However, there wasn't really a lot of stuff to cover. One of the important things that my current/future/whatever boss mentioned, simply because I was a tech guy, was the relationship between the Student Life department (the student government organization fell into that department) and the IT department. Apparently, in the past, this relationship had been not-too-great, for one reason or another.
Prior to this job, I worked another on-campus (tech-oriented) job, where I worked closely with our IT department for a variety of things - therefore, I had dealt with them in the past. Hearing about the relationship between SL and IT was a bit odd, and something I wouldn't have expected. In particular, the conflict seemed to be coming from one particular member of the IT team, our sysadmin. The campus-wide opinion of Sysadmin varied highly, spanning from BOfH-level hatred, to the second Isidore of Seville. I was pretty middle of the road on him - nice guy, could be rough, but was great at what he does.
Now, with this knowledge of discontent in mind, I set out on my configuring of new accounts, writing emails, setting up phone messages, and everything else that comes with getting a new job. I had been given the login to my staff account, and everything else that comes along with it, so I was ready to go. One of the first things I did was set up my email signature (petty, I know, but whatever). Finished setting that up, and saved it.
Because my institution uses Exchange 2010, and I was away from my desk (actually at home), I was on the Outlook Web App, configuring my account. As you may know, right next to the option for setting the signature, are the options for inbox rules. I figured I'd head there next, as I wanted to filter down some of my mail.
Anyhow, I open up the rules panel, and lo-and-behold, there's a few rules there. Lo-and-behold, I find one pretty generic one:
After the message arrives and...
the message was received from 'Sysadmin'Do the following...
delete the message
And stop processing more rules on this message.
If that's not an indicator of drama, I don't know what is.
I deleted the rule, and informed the sysadmin about it. His response was "I knew it was there. Good on you for fixing it."
He's been a much nicer admin to us from then on.
TL;DR: when in doubt, sort it out
- User a_p3rson on Reddit
Yea I would be slightly annoyed to if someone set it up a rule in the email system so that every time an email was received from me it was automatically deleted.
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