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[mrmyth]

Fucking drone waddles up to my desk - "I need help I bumped my computer with my knee and all my programs were open and now its off and it won't come back on,blah blah blah I'm an idiot."


Upon investigation what she should've said was - "I spilled water on my desk, which got in the mouse and fried that port, then leaked behind the desk into the CPU thereby tripping the surge protector."

There's fucking steam coming out of the PC. Wet spots all over the desk. The surge light is blicking. I foolishly ask, "Did you spill something in this PC?"

"Just some water."

"Water conducts."

"Oh."

"Why didn't you just tell me you spilled water in it?"

"I didn't think it got in the PC."

"Didn't notice the steam and the buzzing sound, huh?"

"Umm.....no?"

Bumping with my knee != pouring water in it, you cow. I hate lying users.

 

[mrklaw]

If you're in IT support (for some reason called IM in our office now - is that like how secretaries like to be called PAs?) - then you can sleep soundly knowing that they hate you too

 

[mrmyth]

They hate me here because I bust their asses surfing the web and send keylog transcripts to their bosses.


And yes, that is irony you smell.

 

[BuddyC]

mmm, cow

 

[dem]

They hate me here because I bust their asses surfing the web and send keylog transcripts to their bosses.


And yes, that is irony you smell.

Oh my god... youre a bastard.

 

[MrAngryFace]

web browsing at work is like stealing pens from work. No one normal really gives a shit.

 

[Myllz]

Dude, I'd rather have lying users than the retarded users we have. I sent out an email last week to one of our Managers (the frickin' Operations Manager to be exact) with instructions on how to add yourself to a new web-site we created. In the email, we put the words Email Address (login name) and Password in bold, so there's no way they could miss on how to create an account. He walks down to our office, and asks if he has to enter his password in bold on the web-site. It was amazing.

 

[Drey1082]

 

[Incognito]

They hate me here because I bust their asses surfing the web and send keylog transcripts to their bosses.


And yes, that is irony you smell.

:lol :lol

 

[mrmyth]

web browsing at work is like stealing pens from work. No one normal really gives a shit.

Gotta disagree, when happy-go-lucky user clicks on questionable material and infests their PC with spyware. The upper echelons of IT in their infinite wisdom allow near admin access to all user IDs, so viruses, bots, kazaa, all that gets in and then its up to me to get it out. Useless man hours, IMO

 

[akascream]

web browsing at work is like stealing pens from work. No one normal really gives a shit.

They have web browsers at cashier registers?

 

[FortNinety]

I worked in IT and hated every minute of it. Were my problems with the users? Of course not, it's the annoying know-it-all techs. Yeah, they had to always explain "super simple" stuff to people and fix minor problems that were described as end of the world scenarios. But they seemed to forget, as do many IT folks, that not everyone is a computer genius, that it's still a mystery to a good deal of people out there, and bottom line, it was their damn job to help these people, instead of constantly belittling them and making them feel bad and stupid. I used to answer the phones and give out the assignments and 90% of the people felt genuinely bad and embarrassed that they didn't know what was wrong with their computers, like it was a sin against God, which is ridiculous, but that's exactly how those fucking techs acted.

I love that SNL sketch cuz it's so fucking dead-on. Where I worked, the techs were diehard SBL fans, but the week after that sketch premiered, no one ever spoke of the show ever again. It clearly struck a nerve.

Yeah people are dumb. All people are dumb. And people lie too. But when your job is to help people, even when they can't help themselves, to the point of making your job more difficult, well it comes with the territory folks.

 

[akascream]

I used to answer the phones and give out the assignments and 90% of the people felt genuinely bad and embarrassed that they didn't know what was wrong

Yeah, most of our people are pretty honest about what they did or what they think they did to cause the problem because they know they aren't going to have somebody chewing thier ass over it. It definately goes both ways imo.

 

[mrmyth]

I worked in IT and hated every minute of it. Were my problems with the users? Of course not, it's the annoying know-it-all techs. Yeah, they had to always explain "super simple" stuff to people and fix minor problems that were described as end of the world scenarios. But they seemed to forget, as do many IT folks, that not everyone is a computer genius, that it's still a mystery to a good deal of people out there, and bottom line, it was their damn job to help these people, instead of constantly belittling them and making them feel bad and stupid. I used to answer the phones and give out the assignments and 90% of the people felt genuinely bad and embarrassed that they didn't know what was wrong with their computers, like it was a sin against God, which is ridiculous, but that's exactly how those fucking techs acted.

I love that SNL sketch cuz it's so fucking dead-on. Where I worked, the techs were diehard SBL fans, but the week after that sketch premiered, no one ever spoke of the show ever again. It clearly struck a nerve.

Yeah people are dumb. All people are dumb. And people lie too. But when your job is to help people, even when they can't help themselves, to the point of making your job more difficult, well it comes with the territory folks.

I have no problem with people not being tech geniuses, and I am everything from the Snopes urban legend debunker guy to the guy to ask about home electronics. I'm extremely approachable. I've built half of these peoples' kids' PCs. If you'll notice the title of the thread, I hate lying users. She knew she spilled water in the machine, but she lied about it. This is the same numbnut who purposefully destroyed a years-old Excel report dealing with accounts over $500,000 because she was trying to get out of having to maintain it, yet she can whip up slideshow presentations and party menus for her home business at the drop of a hat.
As far as the other surfing assholes, I've been given express permission by their superiors to track them. They've been warned multiple times. They know they're being watched. But still they surf instead of working. Do I enjoy busting them? Hell yeah, because they owe me for the ten hours I spend a week cleaning out their garbage.
To me most people have an inferiority complex. They don't understand computers, but they don't try either. Its like there's some irrational fear of the machine. And because they're scared of it, anyone who knows it is to be feared and hated too.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

To me most people have an inferiority complex. They don't understand computers, but they don't try either. Its like there's some irrational fear of the machine. And because they're scared of it, anyone who knows it is to be feared and hated too.

You had me up to here: Trying to solve a computer problem when you are even somewhat literate is a fuckin hassle and I know how to use Google. Google and turn it off are my foundation and it still doesn't cover that you need a few high level college courses to really get the most out of your computer. We have weekly threads about spyware/viruses but we still get weekly threads about them. I wouldn't want to know about computers if I didn't have an interest in them with how complex things can get. Defrag, Error Checks, virus/spyware scanners, OS updates, etc=cluster fuck. And I'm sure that's just the basics.

 

[doncale]

mrmyth

only scumbags do that.