Ask an IT guy

Originally Posted by Tenacious D

Why do you always seem so pissy at the office?

In my case, I'm only pissy towards people who have consistently shown themselves to be either illiterate {"hay man this says press ctrl+alt+del to log on, what do I do?"} or actively ignorant {"hay I changed my network password this morning and now I can't sign onto <insert application running on seperate system, which has always required a seperate sign-on>" "Look woman, we went through this exact same thing three days ago, are you meaning to tell me that you've forgotten already?"}.

I'm nice to the people who display intelligence, and I'm really nice to the cute girls who display intelligence.

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Does that mean that you're too sad to continue posting {living}?

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Yes of course. Someone has to build networks, and I'm sorry but there is always work to be done. People screwing stuff up just takes us away from other work that is to be done. Whether it is by reorganizing file and folder structures on network file servers based on needs of departments, divisions, or individuals, or creating new user accounts, or configuring and deploying new equipment, such as workstations, application servers, or physical network equipment. There is so much to do than clean up so-and-so's latest booboo.

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Personally I don't care much for configuring and deploying PCs, but unfortunately that is part of my job at the moment. I like troubleshooting problems more. But not user-caused problems like locked user accounts. I like troubleshooting weird application problems. Also I really like interacting with intelligent users, which do actually exist.

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Originally Posted by Immortal

FUCK YOU IF YOU CAN'T PRINT!

Damn right. Gosh let me pretend to care that you can't print some goddamn chain email that Suzie sent you. Is the there a paper jam in the printer? Yes? There is? Ok then take the paper that is jammed out and see what happens. Oh it's working now? WONDERFUL.

Also I like asking people when they are having problems logging in "Is your numlock turned on / is your caps lock turned off / are you putting in the right password, because it says it isn't correct?"

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Legato

Would you people stop circle jerking. Have some patience, not everyone is skilled at using computers or related equipment. I know it's hard to believe, but my guess is that you grew up using computers at an early age and then went on to some kind of training in your field. The people you're working with probably took a typing class and a Microsoft Word class in college. Why you hate so bad.

I'm sorry, but saying "I don't know anything about computers" does not give a person license to not read what is on the screen. I'm sorry, but I am not a mechanic, but I know how to check my oil, interpret the reading on the dipstick, and add more oil if necessary. How is that any different from reading and understanding an error message that says "Hey I can't create that folder because one with the same name already exists" in Outlook?

Originally Posted by Arainach

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".

I also hate printers, with a damn passion. I wish that my boss understood that when he rolled support for all of the 100 printers in the company into my job description. I especially like the part where when I have to deploy a new printer, I have to talk to our physical network guy to get a switch port configured to the proper vLAN and get an IP address from him, then talk to our core banking system guy to get him to set the printer up on that system, then talk to our net admin to get him to set it up on the domain I can do this part myself but that isn't the point. The fun part is that the physical network guy has access rights and the know-how to do each part of this, yet I get stuck doing it and having to call three different people {and hope that they're actually there} to get the damn thing into production.

And that isn't even mentioning the printer/copier/scanner/fax/coffeemaker/taxconsultant machines that people are starting to order, without consulting IT no less.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?