Construction Company President Doesn’t Understand IT Admin’s Job, So The IT Admin Sends Him Endless Reports

TwistedSifter The Best of the visual Web, sifted, sorted and summarized March 27, 2026 at 5:49 am Construction Company President Doesn’t Understand IT Admin’s Job, So The IT Admin Sends Him Endless Reports by Jayne Elliott Shutterstock/Reddit Imagine working in a position at a company where the boss doesn’t understand your job. If that meant that the boss assumed you were lazy and didn’t actually do anything, would you willing to prove to him just how busy you really were? In this story, one IT Admin at a construction company was in that situation. When the president accused him of not doing anything, he decided to prove him wrong. Keep reading for all the details. The Skunk Factor Mid l-2000’s, I was a selt-taught IT Admin for a small local construction company. Everyone was pretty much a type ‘A’ personality and you could’t tell them anything they don’t already know. They were also a bunch of cheapskates who looked to squeeze every last cent out of anything, lest we not maximize profit. How I ended up in the position is an example of this, but that’s another story. Here is an example of how they were frugal. But to attest to their frugality, we served up our own website, email, and project management software on two servers, which were actually converted desktops. All network data storage and backups were run off these two servers too. This all on a single DSL line and modem. Don’t get me started on our phone system, which also came on the same DSL line. The president cl...