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Because 99% of users are morons who lie to us and say "I didn't do anything to the system" even when we can see the P2P apps and Spyware right on the desktop while complaining that our filters don't let them mail their porn around (without actually saying that).

Oh, and because we're sick of all of you asking us to spend our out-of-work time repairing your computer for free. We have lives too.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by ^___^

How often do you get some? Is the stereotype true or do you guys really have lives and girlfriends?

There was a time when that stereotype was true. It's certainly still true of some in IT, but I'd no longer say a majority.

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Are you fat and ugly like my IT guy?

Just for that, I'm cutting off your net access. :P Actually, in my particular case the answer is no.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Legato

Fixed.

Yet another fine answer to

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Why do you always seem so pissy at the office?

People who constantly consider themselves superior to us. Not that we're infallable, it's just that 99% of those people can't even do their own jobs right, much less ours.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Legato

Yeah maybe they do, but I don't think it's just that; I think it's that nobody considers you superior to them, which bothers you deep down inside.

So you wouldn't (don't?) use P2P apps and e-mail porn to your friends while at work? You always play by the rules, huh.

Hence why I crossed out lives and put in "lies".

Work Machines are not Home Machines. As an IT guy my job is to keep the business network (A) Constantly Up (B) Secure (C) Clean. P2P and e-mailing Porn destroys all of that. News flash: People are insensitive, egocentric, and stupid. Notice all the morons who drive without their headlights because "they can see fine", ignoring the fact that you have to be able to see them as well? Same concept here. People don't realize that what they do on their computers can spread to other computers or create security vulnerabilities that can expose the rest of the network.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Legato

Well which of those jobs is the least fun?

I hate printers. Getting called out to fix a stupid paper jam annoys me to no end, especially when we have office managers (when I worked at a business) or teachers/lab assistants (working at a school) who deal with the printers - I almost never touch them, it's not my jurisdiction, but heck if they'll even tell you that before you get there - it's just "there's a problem in lab xxx".

But that's become increasingly rare, so I'd agree with russ and say that in general I find setting up and configuring machines dull, but it is part of my job so I do it anyhow.

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My question is this, Did you have difficulty learning all the stuff for Networking and Maintnance for computers?

In my case, no. I love working with computers, and a lot of it I grasp intuitively. A bit of messing around and a small bit of reading and I was largely self-educated in the entire system. Formal training can (and has) definatley helped, but I didn't find it "difficult" per se.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Translation for the Internet-Impaired: Don't revive Dead Threads.

Fjordor: As amusing as "Necrophiliac" is, I think Necromancer was what you were going for.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?