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Had a message the other day the the internet was down at this school, I had set up the proxy server. "see what you can do with it from your end".
The DSL was down, he did not even check😕
 
Originally posted by: lokiju
look at it this way, now you have something to talk about in your podcast.
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I thought about bringing it up in the podcast, but I just dont know if it's really related. We'll see. I thought about having a rant section...
 
They blame everything on automatic windows updates here.

"The problem started in Outlook, Explorer, Windows, etc. ever since that damn stupid update asked me to reboot."

I hate IT and I just started my career.
 
Originally posted by: Patt
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Originally posted by: Homerboy
Originally posted by: Joemonkey
just another day in IT...
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I wish my users were smart enough to even USE google
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No shiznit. I get tickled when someone asks me to fix some problem. I go to their machine, with them watching, and go to google, type in the problem, find the answer in the first one or two hits, and just give them a dumb look and walk off
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You're the kind of champ everybody likes to deal with then? 😛 Why not just help them out, point them in the right direction instead of being arrogant about it?
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Sometimes it gets overbearing especially if the fix doesn't pertain to work or if the problem is out of your hands.
 
Heh... I had a user tell me that she got a can of compressed air and was spraying down her keyboad... It took several seconds for her to notice that she was using WD-40! 😀
 
Originally posted by: warcrow
So, I'm working away on a migration project and a user comes to my cube:

<User> I'm having such problems today! I need you to listen to me because no one will listen to me!
<Me> Oh yea? Ok, what's going on?
<User> Well, I cannot get to Google at all.
<Me> Really?

...at this point I turn around, load up my browser and go to www.google.com with success. I turn back around and look at her:

<Me> Well, everything appears to work fine here. Lets go take a look....

We walk over to her desk and she sits down.

<User> Look! Watch! No one believes me! (types in address in Start Button > Run, browser loads up, and our filter catches it blocking access with a warning page). SEE! SEEE! >:-/

<Me> What the....that's odd. (I sit down, load up her browser and type in "google.com". The page loads up fine)
<User> What did you do here?! What did you do to my account?
<Me> Woa woa, hold on one second. Sit down and type in the address again with the browser. (the user does so and again the proxy filter warning page comes up)
<User> WHAT IN THE WORLD! Is my internet down? See, you've probably done something to my account! Are you guys watching me?
<Me> *sigh* *slip hands under blouse, squeeze boobs once*, "HONK!", *squeeze boobs again*, "HONK!".
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Originally posted by: DefDC
Heh... I had a user tell me that she got a can of compressed air and was spraying down her keyboad... It took several seconds for her to notice that she was using WD-40! 😀
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ahahaha
 
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