Hi everyone welcome to nerd talk today we are talking about things that **** IT Geeks off. I will start with a few and everyone can add their own.

1 - People who are stupid.

2 - Best case delivered to me today, client logs job saying they can't get a handshake going for an SSL connection for application X, I look into this and get no where, I call the client and remote connect to their PC (you can see and control their screen/computer) I ask the client to show me what the problem and the client says I can't show I don't know how.....WTF didn't you log a case saying the above???? (It was sooo hard not to laugh)

some people..... "can you help me" "whats wrong?" "I don't know....and I can't tell you help me......."

 

Fark me mate, where o where do I start???????

1) After explaining in detail how to do a job, I still get calls 5 minutes later to explain EVERYTHING again

The worst part about this kinda job is that most users are the "monkey see, monkey do" types. They cant figure out things by themselves, and when you instruct them you gotta make sure you dont leave out any details, event stuff like "Double click the icon"

 

bender, if your this bored - go have a pull :p

 

Ask anyone in IT, being bored is a major part of IT techies life, hence the large amounts of posts... but in hes case, your probably right

 

We have a printer Tech getting around who has the nuttiest voice and gets lost and ****, he calls you from the wrong building looking for a printer on the wrong floor asking you where it is, most of the time the standard answer is "What does your documentation say" then he tells you where it is, then you say "I think the printer would be in that location"

today is like another Monday...doh!

 

At my last job I got a call from the receptionist. ( I wasn't support staff but as all of I.T were located in Sydney I was the unofficial helper)
Anyway she goes "My computer is going all crazy" so I ask what she means and what is it doing. She just said it was possessed and doing what it wanted and wrecking her work. I was puzzled by this and when I went up stairs and to her desk, I found that the corner of her folder was actually pressing down on one of the keys...can't remember but I think it was one of the arrow keys. I couldn't believe that she didn't have the brains to look down at her keyboard to see the folder there???? At least she had nice ****!

 

bhahahahahaha thats some funny *** ****

 

Bashplate, ive had that same problem at work a few times, they say the computer is going crazy and you go there and realise what they have done..

one guy was pissed because he couldnt log onto his computer, he was waiting around for a few hours i asked him why he couldnt log on and he said because someone elses username was there in the username box, he mustnt have heard of the backspace/delete key

hahahaha

 

I grow plants, they don't bother me much with stupid stuff.

 

It's almost like the people who can't log in cos they left the caps lock on except that this person was way way dumber Driftr.

And Larriken, they may not bother you but the cops may...hehehehe

 

ahh i hate people who dont know how to work CAPS lock




watch out for the larriken

 

Sometimes I wish we could just give some people keyboards like this with just what they need....actually I wouldn't mind the one pictured myself!!!

 

Ahh i know a guy here who does only those 2 things hahahaha

 

Had a client, call up with a noisy PC...

My mate and I go onsite to visit, show up the client wasn't there,

I plug the power cord into the wall and hit the on button, the PC started making sparking sorta noises, I freek and tell my mate to rip the power cord out, so now the PC is off and I start to pull the lid off the box, in doing this I noticed a little peice of White protruding from the rear of the PC, on closer inspection a Plastic spoon has wedged its selft between the back wall and the Power FAN, I started cracking up, any how the client (who was a chick) showed up and she was all (with a little attude) like so what was the problem, told her it was a plastic spoon, she went bright red.....it was a classic.

o yeah we also had a garden person (office plant waterer) water a complete computer....

 

sounds like something from BOFH bender

 

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A work colugue here also had a noise computer. I told him the cooling fan mas making the noise, and that IT should fix it. Anyway, I later discovered he had wedged a pencil at the back, stopping the fan from moving, hence no noise. As our PC's remain on all the time, I told him, "Damn, that PC could have lit up and burnt the place down!" He had a cheesy grin on his face

 

This made me cry

 

and now i have a sore gut

 

HA HA HA, at least you dont have to sit there and try and understand every second person that you talk to as they dont "speaka no englace" Now thats just god dam annoying as all hell. But its pretty funny when you tell a customer that you have to put them on hold and you just mute it. The sh*t that some of the people talk about while they think your gone PRICELESS