What is this! Where did you get this one from? :) I busted out when I read
the ketchup bit.

Regards, Dustin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Muhammed Hasan
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 10:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [brluglist] Actual Resignation Letter from a System
> Administrator
>
>
>  Mr. Baker,
>
> As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a
> few very basic
> expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have
> an intellect that ranges
> above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and
> annoying harassment of myself
> and my co-workers during the commission of our duties, I can only
> surmise that you are
> one of the few true genetic wastes of our time. Asking me, a
> network administrator, to
> explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you
> happen to stroll into my
> office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen.
>
> I was hired because I know about Unix, and you were apparently
> hired to provide amusement
> to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to
> understand the concept of
> "cut and paste" for the hundredth time. You will never understand
> computers. Something as
> incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You
> will also never
> understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain
> it to you, even though
> I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an
> IP is. Your shiny new
> iMac has more personality than you ever will. You walk around the
> building all day,
> shiftlessly looking for fault in others. You have a sharp dressed
> useless look about you
> that may have worked for your interview, but now that you
> actually have responsibility,
> you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will
> cover for your glaring
> ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the
> blue-green algae that
> everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad
> proof of the Dilbert
> principle. Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without
> you getting a full
> frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation,
> however I have a few
> parting thoughts:
>
> 1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is
> illegal to give me a bad
> recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not
> to comment." I will have
> friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep
> you honest, because I
> know you would be unable to do it on  your own.
>
> 2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I
> know every password you
> have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I
> am going to publish your
> "favorites list", which I conveniently saved when you made me
> "back up" your useless
> files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually
> viewed favorably by the
> administration.
>
> 3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your
> mothers b-day", you
> neglected to mention that you were going to take pictures of
> yourself in the mirror nude.
> Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moron you really
> are. Suffice it to say I
> have never seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle, but I assure
> you that those have
> been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a
> glowing letter of
> recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please, I hate having
> to correct your
> mistakes.)
>
> Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of
> recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am
> tomorrow. One word of this to anybody and all of your little
> twisted repugnant obsessions
> will be open to the public. Never fuck with your systems
> administrators, because they
> know what you do with all your free time.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ted Brewer.
>
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