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Tales of IT ineptitude

Hilarious! Just read all 41 days. I totally lost it when the 'investigator' shows up on Day 39 and just wiggles the mouse around and downloads Adobe Reader.
 
lol, help desk

in the past i have been assigned to train a few help desk guys who wanted to become programmers

one guy was really able to get it and did in fact become a productive programmer

the other 3? no dice. installing adobe reader is probably the most complicated task they will ever be able to perform.
 
that right there is a huge part of whats wrong with america.

People hooking up morons with work they can't handle. Morons refuse to learn anything even after they have the damn job. Work suffers. Money lost. Customers take their business overseas. Jobs disappear. Etc.
 
... Boss was just asking coworker across from me about how to take care of adware/virus on personal computer. He told him to do everything except download a f***ing malware/adware removal tool or run a scan in safemode.

The guy has worked in our local IT department, but I saw him try to remove a video card from a computer once -- he left the tower plugged in and hot, didn't think to flip it on its side, didn't know about the PCI-E release latch, or the fat color coded one on the case. He knows some advanced things about the software we use though.
 
Hello IT
Have you tried turning it off then on again?
Well is it plugged in?
Alright, I'll be up in a minute.
I won't be up in a minute.
 
brianmanahan said:
lol, help desk

in the past i have been assigned to train a few help desk guys who wanted to become programmers

one guy was really able to get it and did in fact become a productive programmer

the other 3? no dice. installing adobe reader is probably the most complicated task they will ever be able to perform.
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There really aren't a lot of great programmers these days. Colleges churn them out like factories. The market is flooded mediocre devs that just went into it because their college counselors suggested it. At least Dev software tells you your mistakes before compiling these days so less time is wasted on syntax.
 
IME, if the company isn't huge, they don't just want a person to fix computers. They want a Network Admin/Hardware Repair/Software Diagnostic & Upgrade person.

Similar to Imp's experience, that are going to be very good at at least one of the above though.
 
IT person here. I make 140k a year helping people and not making them feel like idiots when they ask those stupid questions. Word of mouth has me turning down job offers weekly.
 
ketchup79 said:
IME, if the company isn't huge, they don't just want a person to fix computers. They want a Network Admin/Hardware Repair/Software Diagnostic & Upgrade person.
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Funny you mention that... Because the guy across from me was in IT, he still has IT friends coming by to talk every once in a while.

Latest story is an IT guy who "suggested" (key word) to another IT guy that the best way to fix a botched install of a major program was to re-image it. The re-image screwed up the entire system, now they're blaming the guy who suggested it, and saying it'll cost $1500 to fix (I don't think the hardware we use is worth $500, and the software licenses are on servers)... And they want an apology from him.
 
shortylickens said:
that right there is a huge part of whats wrong with america.

People hooking up morons with work they can't handle. Morons refuse to learn anything even after they have the damn job. Work suffers. Money lost. Customers take their business overseas. Jobs disappear. Etc.
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don't worry, it's all fake
 
shortylickens said:
that right there is a huge part of whats wrong with america.

People hooking up morons with work they can't handle. Morons refuse to learn anything even after they have the damn job. Work suffers. Money lost. Customers take their business overseas. Jobs disappear. Etc.
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It's called patronage, and it's a lot worse just about everywhere else in the world 🙂.
 
Wyndru said:
There really aren't a lot of great programmers these days. Colleges churn them out like factories. The market is flooded mediocre devs that just went into it because their college counselors suggested it.
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luckily i dont have to work with too many people like that because we try to weed them out in the hiring process, but some do get through. it is amazing how many people go into software development for a career and just blatantly and obviously DONT GIVE A CRAP about it!

Wyndru said:
At least Dev software tells you your mistakes before compiling these days so less time is wasted on syntax.
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yeah IDEs make things a lot easier. when i first started, they gave me a laptop so pathetically slow that i couldn't use run eclipse. so i just wrote java webapps with textpad for editing and the command line for compiling/packaging WARs and running them on tomcat.
 
Squeetard said:
IT person here. I make 140k a year helping people and not making them feel like idiots when they ask those stupid questions. Word of mouth has me turning down job offers weekly.
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Mmmmm hmmmm.

My panties are dripping already. FUCK ME GEEK
 
Squeetard said:
IT person here. I make 140k a year helping people and not making them feel like idiots when they ask those stupid questions. Word of mouth has me turning down job offers weekly.
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just weekly?? If you were that good I would think you would be turning down offers daily or even hourly.........
 
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