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GeneralTrying to get my account back... Pin
Sander Rossel24-Jan-17 6:01
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So one of our customers requires me to have an account in their system.
The account gives me an email @theircompany which I cannot access without VPN and I can only make VPN in a VM which does not have an email client installed.
With the account I also get access to another account which gives me access to their servers, which I need to release software.

For the past six months or so I've been logging into their systems on a weekly basis, but somewhere in December I suddenly couldn't log on anymore.
Turned out, because I failed to extend my contract, which only involved changing some value on my profile on their website, they just locked my account.
I didn't even know I had to extend my contract, last time I've made that mistake.

So, of course I emailed our contact who referred me to someone who could make a request for me to have my account restored.
Of course they sent all emails to my @theircompany account which I could not access at all without VPN which I didn't have because they blocked my account.
Took me about a week or two to get my VPN and account access back.

But then I still needed access to the server...
Long story short, I've talked to three people about it, filled out some forms, at least five people needed involvement (because I needed to get "approval" of two people), the help desk people weren't able to fix it for me, two more people got involved and almost two months later I still don't have access to their servers and six people are involved... Sigh | :sigh:

Who the hell comes up with these idiotic policies?
Why the hell can they close an account automatically, but is it nearly impossible to get it back?
Ah well, I'm not working for them at the moment so I'm not in a hurry and I can see the humor in it Laugh | :laugh:

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