IT department horror stories...whats yours?

[halik]

Originally posted by: rh71
OS/2 made it past Y2k ? 😕

HAHAHAHAHA i just remebered the thing from 1979 was not Y2k compatible at all, they kept their date off by some 70 years to keep the calendar correct

im not sure about the os/2 machiens though

 

[adlep]

Hey Halik...
Just wanted to say hi...
Also, I used to applied for the IT job in Ann Arbor news....
Never got a call back...🙁
Some people....just.. aren't gay enough....
😛

 

[Zee]

sue for sexual preference discrimination 😀

 

[Murphyrulez]

Are gay people racist towards non-gays?? Is that legal?

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: m2kewl

Originally posted by: Ameesh
i had to build some packages which was causing my linker to page out constantly, so i called the it dept to give me more ram, and those guys argued with me for 40 minutes about why its ok to page, and thats whats its there for before i came down to there office threw a brick at their head. Now i dont have any problems getting hardware from those asshats.

ameesh - you know that's the microsoft way! inefficient code = add more ram. 😀

/runs quickly!

it wasnt at microsoft

 

[phonemonkey]

Originally posted by: rh71
OS/2 made it past Y2k ? 😕

Unfortunately, it's live and well in a modified version at Safeway...

 

[T2T III]

Horrible story? About 10 years back when I worked in the data center of a Fortune 10 company, a fellow employee had her children in on the weekend. Near each entrance/exit, we had emergency "power-off" buttons that would cut the power to the whole data center. Well, one of her children pushed the button and took everything down. 🙁

Following that incident, new rules were implemented on who could/could not be present in the data center.

 

[Dunbar]

I don't work in IT but I'm friends with one of ours (he's actually pretty knowledgable.) He gave me his old Dell P4 system to replace my P II. Man, it has so much crap/spyware on it and none of it is mine (I only go to a handful of trusted sites.) I can't even type a URL in now because the firewall blocks everything (some lycos spyware crap.) And Adaware hangs when I try to uninstall the 124 entries...

 

[Dunbar]

...after i told her I could automate this whole process with one linux machine.

How long ago was this?

 

[Night201]

Originally posted by: Dunbar
I don't work in IT but I'm friends with one of ours (he's actually pretty knowledgable.) He gave me his old Dell P4 system to replace my P II. Man, it has so much crap/spyware on it and none of it is mine (I only go to a handful of trusted sites.) I can't even type a URL in now because the firewall blocks everything (some lycos spyware crap.) And Adaware hangs when I try to uninstall the 124 entries...

That's what formatting is for.

 

[TommyVercetti]

Originally posted by: Dunbar
I don't work in IT but I'm friends with one of ours (he's actually pretty knowledgable.) He gave me his old Dell P4 system to replace my P II. Man, it has so much crap/spyware on it and none of it is mine (I only go to a handful of trusted sites.) I can't even type a URL in now because the firewall blocks everything (some lycos spyware crap.) And Adaware hangs when I try to uninstall the 124 entries...

So I see you have been sheltered most of your life.

 

[Dunbar]

That's what formatting is for.

He doesn't want to format it, too much work. And did you read the part about the IT guy having spyware all over his company computer?

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I understand. Although what does them having to be gay have anything to do with your work?

maybe with all those "gay" guys is the reason he is so upset he got fired. he missed out?


but i think you are stretching it. i doubt very much every was gay.

 

[Murphyrulez]

Originally posted by: Dunbar

That's what formatting is for.

He doesn't want to format it, too much work. And did you read the part about the IT guy having spyware all over his company computer?

Yeah but you said he gave it to you. So it is yours now. So format the beast. And stop being such a weeny, there's a whole big internet out there for you to see.