What would you do if I asked you to restart your computer?

[Fritzo]

Is that not clear enough? If I ask you "Can you please restart your computer?", you would think people would shut it down and restart it.

9/10 of people I talk to on the phone simply close the window they have opened, and that means restarting to them. I actually have to say each time "Go down to the start button, select Shut Down, then select "Restart." After that, they always say the same thing- "OHHHH....you mean restart the COMPUTER."

God I hate people.

 

[Juno]

duh, we have plenty of computer illiterates...

 

[meltdown75]

i'd smack you in the face.

 

[purbeast0]

my worst one was at this internship in college ...

i get to work on monday from a weekend off and had my supervisor tell me that this guy came back from work over the weekend and his computer wasnt working.

so i go into his office, and low and behold, his PC is turned off. i asked him if he tried to turn it on and he said usually he just comes back to work and moves the mouse and it turns on, but this time it didnt turn on.

so i pushed the power button and turned it on.

 

[elektrolokomotive]

I'd turn off the key, turn the key back to on, blow some ether into the carb, and pull the cord repeatedly.

 

[Raduque]

Shit, most people can't even handle restarting their cell phone. They think flipping it closed means restarting. I'm not surprised they can't handle restarting a PC.

 

[hiromizu]

I have a batch script that shuts down every computer in the network after 5 mins of warning and have enforced it's authority to corporate policy. If you are going to the pooper or lunch, you are required to save and close all documents. It's absolutely fabulous.

 

[Kelemvor]

The geniuses at a place I used to work had some automatic patch stuff setup for Windows. They were so great they made a window that asked you if not was a good time to reboot.

If you clicked Yes, it rebooted you. If you clicked No, it went away and asked you again in 5 minutes. But if you just dragged the window off the screen and didn't click anything, you could just keep right on working... We had major virus problems and most of the machines that showed up as missing a patch, were sitting there asking the person to click Yes to reboot.

I guess they weren't smart enough to put a timer on it to say if you don't click anything you will reboot in 5 minutes... And even after this was brought up, they still didn't do it. Bunch of idiots.

 

[Linflas]

Actually I have the opposite problem here. Any request to logoff a computer generally results in a shutdown-restart instead of a simple logout.

 

[rivan]

I'd tell you I had already tried a hard reboot to resolve the issue.

 

[Xavier434]

Wow. This story even surprises me and I have worked in IT positions before.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Nothing surprises me anymore. I watched the head of our software department try to open "gone.scr". Of all the people, you'd think he'd know better.

 

[hiromizu]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
The geniuses at a place I used to work had some automatic patch stuff setup for Windows. They were so great they made a window that asked you if not was a good time to reboot.

If you clicked Yes, it rebooted you. If you clicked No, it went away and asked you again in 5 minutes. But if you just dragged the window off the screen and didn't click anything, you could just keep right on working... We had major virus problems and most of the machines that showed up as missing a patch, were sitting there asking the person to click Yes to reboot.

I guess they weren't smart enough to put a timer on it to say if you don't click anything you will reboot in 5 minutes... And even after this was brought up, they still didn't do it. Bunch of idiots.

Hence we strongly believe in enforcing policies and violent punishment in non compliance.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: hiromizu

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
The geniuses at a place I used to work had some automatic patch stuff setup for Windows. They were so great they made a window that asked you if not was a good time to reboot.

If you clicked Yes, it rebooted you. If you clicked No, it went away and asked you again in 5 minutes. But if you just dragged the window off the screen and didn't click anything, you could just keep right on working... We had major virus problems and most of the machines that showed up as missing a patch, were sitting there asking the person to click Yes to reboot.

I guess they weren't smart enough to put a timer on it to say if you don't click anything you will reboot in 5 minutes... And even after this was brought up, they still didn't do it. Bunch of idiots.

Hence we strongly believe in enforcing policies and violent punishment in non compliance.

Are you Simon or the PFY?

 

[Casawi]

No way !!! hahaha

 

[mrizvi66]

Originally posted by: Linflas
Actually I have the opposite problem here. Any request to logoff a computer generally results in a shutdown-restart instead of a simple logout.

man i hate that...i want to slap them when they do that.

 

[hiromizu]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: hiromizu

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
The geniuses at a place I used to work had some automatic patch stuff setup for Windows. They were so great they made a window that asked you if not was a good time to reboot.

If you clicked Yes, it rebooted you. If you clicked No, it went away and asked you again in 5 minutes. But if you just dragged the window off the screen and didn't click anything, you could just keep right on working... We had major virus problems and most of the machines that showed up as missing a patch, were sitting there asking the person to click Yes to reboot.

I guess they weren't smart enough to put a timer on it to say if you don't click anything you will reboot in 5 minutes... And even after this was brought up, they still didn't do it. Bunch of idiots.

Hence we strongly believe in enforcing policies and violent punishment in non compliance.

Are you Simon or the PFY?

I actually had to search for that and remembered reading these stories awhile back. Very funny stuff and yes, it did have a bit of a perverted influence on me as an admin.

 

[TheTony]

PEBKAC

 

[jjones]

Piss on your leg.

 

[piasabird]

Sometimes I just restart whenever MS has a security update and a restart is required. With windows update the computer will just restart itself at night when you are not there. We kind of have a policy about forced windows updates. A while back we had a big worm attack and almost every computer on campus needed to be cleaned and updated. It took forever to accomplish that.

 

[ew915]

remote shutdown FTW

shutdown -r -m \\computername -t 0 -f

that will close everything and reboot it. make sure they save everything first.

 

[FoBoT]

i would pull the cord out of the socket and toss my computer out the window

if you told me that

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Is that not clear enough? If I ask you "Can you please restart your computer?", you would think people would shut it down and restart it.

9/10 of people I talk to on the phone simply close the window they have opened, and that means restarting to them. I actually have to say each time "Go down to the start button, select Shut Down, then select "Restart." After that, they always say the same thing- "OHHHH....you mean restart the COMPUTER."

God I hate people.

Why would you hate the people that put bread in your mouth and a roof over your head?

 

[ThePresence]

Are people really that stupid?

 

[hiromizu]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Are people really that stupid?

Most of them simply do not care until threatened.

remote shutdown FTW

shutdown -r -m \\computername -t 0 -f

that will close everything and reboot it. make sure they save everything first.

That's actually part of my nice and simple "reboot all pc's script" except I have about a few hundred lines. I also have a separate script which aborts the shutdown in the event of accidental initiation of the reboot script. I have strategically named it "oops.bat."