IT Rant 2016

[TwiceOver]

Someone called and asked how to move a folder the other day.

Job security...

 

[Loop2kil]

Blame the hardware makers that fuck with the directions of USB ports.

I usually always get it on the 3rd try.

 

[Exterous]

I usually always get it on the 3rd try.

:hmm:

 

[Linux23]

Uhhh I know how and do it regularly.
I'd guess IT should do it, as it's their job. (We're small company)

What??? Lazy much??

 

[Homerboy]

What??? Lazy much??

Are you even following along? I'm saying that IT should show people how to do it. Not that IT SHOULD do it for them. If they show people how to do it (again, since you can't seem to follow along, via a staff-wide email or intranet posting) then they wouldn't have to bitch about doing it for people.

 

[gorcorps]

Someone walked into my office and ask

"Is there a way to let people know i'm out of the office next week?"

We been using outlook since early 2000, maybe even before that.. during xp days. The guy has been working here for over 16 years and using outlook for at least 16 years.

Yes its call outlook out of office message. ITS 2016 !@#!@#@!##!@@#@!#!@#@!#!@#!@#!@#!@#!@

He's probably been asking for 16 years, and every time he does some IT brat thinks it's better to just laugh at him.

poor guy

 

[ViviTheMage]

Ironically, our IT department is too stupid/lazy to train people on such things in the OP then bitch to high heaven when they have to do it for people. Our IT is THE_WORST.

I know people in IT who says this verbatim, and then I am like, uhhhh, that's you???? YOU HATE YOU????

 

[Linux23]

Are you even following along? I'm saying that IT should show people how to do it. Not that IT SHOULD do it for them. If they show people how to do it (again, since you can't seem to follow along, via a staff-wide email or intranet posting) then they wouldn't have to bitch about doing it for people.

Again learn how to comprehend. You asking me stupid shit that you could easily look up online or ask a person who works in your group how they do it themselves is taking resources from the IT staff. I don't have the time to stop what I'm doing to do a read along with you because you know what I'd be reading the same Google search to you. If the feature isn't working fine I'll work with you but if you're too lazy to type in 5 words in Google search then you wouldn't want me as your tech the next time you have a serious issue.

 

[pontifex]

Uhhh I know how and do it regularly.
I'd guess IT should do it, as it's their job. (We're small company)

why is it their job? most IT is break/fix or maintaining services. not teaching dumbasses how to use a program that they should already know, especially after using it every day for 16 years.

 

[Anubis]

LOL. So true.

http://www.kappit.com/img/pics/201502_1057_ccibh_sm.jpg

i prefer this one
http://b2.img.mobypicture.com/1a27c9df0aa55898bb2c51bd8d77f62d_view.jpg

 

[Spacehead]

Someone walked into my office and ask

"Is there a way to let people know i'm out of the office next week?"

Just tell him to hang one of these signs on the door

 

[iCyborg]

i prefer this one
http://b2.img.mobypicture.com/1a27c9df0aa55898bb2c51bd8d77f62d_view.jpg

I prefer this version:
http://innoculous.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/USB-Superposition-720c.png

 

[Red Squirrel]

I like the fact that the USB problem happens to almost everyone. It's such a simple connector yet everybody seems to have trouble with it, including myself. It's always the 3rd try!

 

[Zodiark1593]

I like the fact that the USB problem happens to almost everyone. It's such a simple connector yet everybody seems to have trouble with it, including myself. It's always the 3rd try!

While full-size USB has never given me much of an issue, Micro-USB can go die in a fire already.

 

[JimmiG]

I like the fact that the USB problem happens to almost everyone. It's such a simple connector yet everybody seems to have trouble with it, including myself. It's always the 3rd try!

Thing is, since it's just a 50% chance of getting it right, you tend to not try hard enough on the first try. So you give up and rotate it 180 degrees and then you realize it's definitely the wrong way now. Feeling stupid and angry, but also confident, you rotate it 180 degrees again and shove it in with more force and authority, so this time it works.

The USB connector is extremely poorly designed. It's such a simple connector, yet there's no way to tell from the outside which way it's supposed to plug in, unless you look inside the actual connector for the plastic tab, and then look inside the USB port for the plastic tab. If it's a laptop, you usually have to lift the entire laptop to even see inside the ports.

 

[Linflas]

Thing is, since it's just a 50% chance of getting it right, you tend to not try hard enough on the first try. So you give up and rotate it 180 degrees and then you realize it's definitely the wrong way now. Feeling stupid and angry, but also confident, you rotate it 180 degrees again and shove it in with more force and authority, so this time it works.

The USB connector is extremely poorly designed. It's such a simple connector, yet there's no way to tell from the outside which way it's supposed to plug in, unless you look inside the actual connector for the plastic tab, and then look inside the USB port for the plastic tab. If it's a laptop, you usually have to lift the entire laptop to even see inside the ports.

I believe the standard is supposed to be assuming a laptop/desktop is sitting in the normal position the USB symbol on the plug should face up (on a tower on what would be up if it was sitting flat).

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I know people in IT who says this verbatim, and then I am like, uhhhh, that's you???? YOU HATE YOU????

When IT people complain about lack of training, it's because they want to take classes ($$$$) to be "better" IT people.

Complete coincidence that most of those classes are in LA, SF, or other warm-weather-in-winter tourist traps.

 

[DigDog]

"don't use colors in Excel, don't hide the columns, it makes the files incompatible"

my supervisor; our main software at that workplace: Excel.

 

[spacejamz]

Can't wait until users get 4k screens and they run out of mouse pad space to scroll...

maybe they can buy the dilbert supersized mouse pads....

 

[jlee]

Thing is, since it's just a 50% chance of getting it right, you tend to not try hard enough on the first try. So you give up and rotate it 180 degrees and then you realize it's definitely the wrong way now. Feeling stupid and angry, but also confident, you rotate it 180 degrees again and shove it in with more force and authority, so this time it works.

The USB connector is extremely poorly designed. It's such a simple connector, yet there's no way to tell from the outside which way it's supposed to plug in, unless you look inside the actual connector for the plastic tab, and then look inside the USB port for the plastic tab. If it's a laptop, you usually have to lift the entire laptop to even see inside the ports.

The seam on the USB connector faces down. It took me far too many years to notice this, lol.

 

[ViviTheMage]

When IT people complain about lack of training, it's because they want to take classes ($$$$) to be "better" IT people.

Complete coincidence that most of those classes are in LA, SF, or other warm-weather-in-winter tourist traps.

Preach, fellow Minnesotan .

 

[Sonikku]

my admin doesn't know how to plug in a USB mouse

To be fair those USB inputs are a son of a bitch. I have to try to insert, turn, try again, turn and insert it a third time. Works every time.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

"don't use colors in Excel, don't hide the columns, it makes the files incompatible"

my supervisor; our main software at that workplace: Excel.

That's valid. If you don't use advanced features, you won't confuse "that guy."

You know who I mean. Every office has a "that guy."

 

[lxskllr]

Nobody at work aside from the secretary knows what tools they use, and how to use them. I hear the most ridiculous shit, and see the most convoluted methods of doing things, with no understanding of what it is they're really doing. An example is printing a document created in house, scanning it to pdf on a thumb drive, then importing it to the desired program, instead of simply exporting as pdf in the original software, and putting it on the fuckin server.

I try to help streamline processes, but I don't use their software, and asking them what it is they're doing is like asking my cat to describe particle physics. I don't have time to learn all their shit, and it isn't my job, but hearing them try to work through a problem is like listening to grinding metal :^S

 

[gorcorps]

That's valid. If you don't use advanced features, you won't confuse "that guy."

You know who I mean. Every office has a "that guy."

If "that guy" is the reason I can't use excel to its full extent, then "that guy" will have to live without my data