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Dioksy
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This happened when I got my first IT support job. Naturally as a 1st line support you get to do the fun and not at all tedious thing of resetting passwords.

So I take a ticket from one of our HR people where they say that 3 new employees can't access a certain system.

Without going into too much detail here I reset the passwords according to our procedures and be done with it.

But at the end of the day it turns out that one of those 3 new employees was the new CEO, and he was known to be not the most pleasant of people to work with.

So ofc there was a chain of emails with the words "How can someone not know who I am" in there somewhere.

Had a nice stressful weekend wondering if I'll still have a job after Monday and we had a whole new password reset procedure created because of that.

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  • 21
    Sounds like a shit CEO.

    He should have been proud that you followed procedure regardless of title.

    Process exists for a reason, and it's usually to protect the interests that's making him money.
  • 7
    If you had shorcutted the procedure for that CEO, that would have been a serious security issue (social engineering opportunity).
    Maybe, after cooling down again, that CEO realized that...
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