This way any idiot that looks over my shoulder will lose their necktie. I don't understand the facination with looking over my shoulder when I am troubleshooting a network problem. For some reason the company VPN is lagging and I;m on the phone with corporate telecom people to figure it out. Meanwhile one idiot filters in and tells me he wants to "learn how to fix networks" by watching me. He literally gets right over my shoulder and starts looking at my laptop. WTF? Unless you're Jessica Alba, backoff!!! I seriously felt like cutting off his tie right then and there.
I told him that any problem at this level is beyond anything he could help with. Of course he tells me he uses AOL over his cable modem at home and knows a few things about networking. I told him that I've changed my oil a few times but I;m not gonna tell the mechanic at the dealer how to overhaul a transmission.
Of course I am taking down all sorts of numbers and I motion for him to leave. So what does he do? He wanders in and starts oppening up panels on the servers. I dropped the phone and told the guy to back the phuck away from the equipment. Of course people like him are usually the first to bitch when Hotmail takes an extra 3 seconds to popup. Then he wanders over to the Cisco switches and starts looking at the patch cable. Like all "networking people" attempted to help by saying, "HEY!! All these lights are blinking, maybe that's what's wrong" "Ohhh Ohhh... a thingy went beep" "The hard drives all all moving fast, can they be going too fast?"
People like that really piss me off. I told him to, "GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE BEFORE I REVOKE YOU'RE NETWORK PRIVLEGES!!!" I mean do I walk over to the salespeople and start processing orders? Do I walk over to marketing and start firing off press releases? Hell no. Some people really have some nerve. :|
Windogg
I told him that any problem at this level is beyond anything he could help with. Of course he tells me he uses AOL over his cable modem at home and knows a few things about networking. I told him that I've changed my oil a few times but I;m not gonna tell the mechanic at the dealer how to overhaul a transmission.
Of course I am taking down all sorts of numbers and I motion for him to leave. So what does he do? He wanders in and starts oppening up panels on the servers. I dropped the phone and told the guy to back the phuck away from the equipment. Of course people like him are usually the first to bitch when Hotmail takes an extra 3 seconds to popup. Then he wanders over to the Cisco switches and starts looking at the patch cable. Like all "networking people" attempted to help by saying, "HEY!! All these lights are blinking, maybe that's what's wrong" "Ohhh Ohhh... a thingy went beep" "The hard drives all all moving fast, can they be going too fast?"
People like that really piss me off. I told him to, "GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE BEFORE I REVOKE YOU'RE NETWORK PRIVLEGES!!!" I mean do I walk over to the salespeople and start processing orders? Do I walk over to marketing and start firing off press releases? Hell no. Some people really have some nerve. :|
Windogg
