How do you guys handle the Monday ticket dump?
Had 14 tickets before I even finished my first coffee today and most of them are the same basic stuff. 8 were just password resets for M365 and 3 were people who "forgot" how to map a network drive after the weekend.
It’s not hard work, but it’s just tedious. It takes like 15 or 20 minutes to log into the portal, reset the thing, and then update the ticket. That's nearly half my morning gone on tasks that shouldn't even need a human. I'm trying to write some PowerShell scripts to speed it up but I barely have time to sit down and code between the phone ringing every ten minutes.
I've been looking at stuff like Neo Agent or just hiring a student part-time to sit there and click buttons all day. My lead tech is getting annoyed because he's getting pulled off a server migration to help with "I can't print" calls and it's messing up our project deadlines.
What are you guys using to filter out the noise? Do you just ignore the L1 stuff until the afternoon or is there a way to actually automate these simple tickets without spending weeks setting it up?