I am very surprised you have not been escorted out... My IT jobs have had training as follows: This is the server room. This is the password. This is the network policy manual. Good luck!

I was once asked to 'show somebody else how the network functioned' ... for two weeks... I got this immediate bad feeling about it. That company had doubled in size, revenue, users, and equipment during the three years I had been there and I was alone and completely overwhelmed. I tried to shrug it off as 'somebody had hired me an assistant', but I was walked out the door 2 weeks later. The IT department was outsourced to 'a company' that (as it turns out) would fix everything by appearing once or twice a month... Thankfully, those 2 weeks were not any less busy in those 2 weeks, so the training I gave ended up being: "This is the server room. This is the password. This is the network policy manual. Good luck!" and that was 2 weeks worth...

You can't hope to cover everything in a single day even with the most experienced server admin... And if there is 'LUSER' support tied into it, shake hands, hand over the keys and passwords, and run away, screaming if you can muster it...

You forgot to mention the Hacker is employed @ IBM and a shareholder in the contractor netting even more in his pocket thanks to the salary and dividends...

the NWO?

tell me about it... I've learned hundreds of uses for paper clips elastic bands and pencil erasers... And I just can't seem to raise funds (or concern from the budget makers) to replace the network that is 65% comprised of 6 year old under-powered Dell Optiplex 170Ls...