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Icanoutsmokeany1

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I think we should have a "Worst IT guy" competition. If you feel your company has the worst IT guy ever, nominate him for title of ATOT Worst IT Guy ever.

I'll start with our IT guy. He speaks 5 words of English and one time freaked out because I had my IE start page set to blank. He actually thought it was a problem with my PC and told me about it, acting as if a virus hijacked my page and made it target:blank.

Or...changing everybody's e-mail password to temp and sending a company wide e-mail that that's what everybodys new PW was. HELLLO coworker e-mail sniffing. I still wonder if any of my coworkers neglected to change their mail password, as it isn't entirely simple to do so.
 
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EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Me.
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I wouldn't say you're the worst, you're just extremely LAZY, which is bad for being in IT.
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Bah, if they gave me a real job, instead of second seat on the damned helpdesk (and usually on the night shift at that) I'd be just a little less lazy.
 
Svnla

Svnla

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I used to work in IT with a guy that said "his ANALOG MODEM is almost as fast as our T1 line". What a moron.

His answer for most of IT problems was reformat the hard drive and reinstalled everything.
 
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EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: Svnla
I used to work in IT with a guy that said "his ANALOG MODEM is almost as fast as our T1 line". What a moron.

His answer for most of IT problems was reformat the hard drive and reinstalled everything.
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That solution works quite often. Thing is, it should be a last resort for when you're completely stumped, not the first action.
 
Mermaidman

Mermaidman

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Originally posted by: Icanoutsmokeany1
I think we should have a "Worst IT guy" competition. If you feel your company has the worst IT guy ever, nominate him for title of ATOT Worst IT Guy ever.

I'll start with our IT guy. He speaks 5 words of English and one time freaked out because I had my IE start page set to blank. He actually thought it was a problem with my PC and told me about it, acting as if a virus hijacked my page and made it target:blank.

Or...changing everybody's e-mail password to temp and sending a company wide e-mail that that's what everybodys new PW was. HELLLO coworker e-mail sniffing. I still wonder if any of my coworkers neglected to change their mail password, as it isn't entirely simple to do so.
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That's pretty bad!

I've only had one bad IT guy, and it was because She had awful BO.

 
RadiclDreamer

RadiclDreamer

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Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Me.
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I wouldn't say you're the worst, you're just extremely LAZY, which is bad for being in IT.
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No its really GOOD, because that means we do it right the first time so we dont have to fsck with it anymore
 
Svnla

Svnla

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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Svnla
I used to work in IT with a guy that said "his ANALOG MODEM is almost as fast as our T1 line". What a moron.

His answer for most of IT problems was reformat the hard drive and reinstalled everything.
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That solution works quite often. Thing is, it should be a last resort for when you're completely stumped, not the first action.
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I agree it should be the last resort but this dude refered to format the HD whenever things went south.
 
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beer

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I have the best IT department ever. They maintain a complete backup of my hard drive so I never have to do anything. Anything that I need I have in two days, at most. I don't recall Exchange ever going down except for saturday mornings; the VPN concentrators never break, I have admin rights on my corporate laptop...man, I could go on.
 
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PG

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Originally posted by: Svnla
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Svnla
I used to work in IT with a guy that said "his ANALOG MODEM is almost as fast as our T1 line". What a moron.

His answer for most of IT problems was reformat the hard drive and reinstalled everything.
Click to expand...

That solution works quite often. Thing is, it should be a last resort for when you're completely stumped, not the first action.
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I agree it should be the last resort but this dude refered to format the HD whenever things went south.
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That'll teach you to complain.


 
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Eeezee

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Worked with a guy who didn't know how to hook up a monitor. He just didn't know where the hell the VGA cable went. It had on-board video, it was right next to the PS2 ports o_O When he failed to figure out where the VGA port was, he put a sticky note on the monitor saying "dead monitor." He then got out TWO MORE monitors and did the same thing.

He was Korean and spoke very broken english. He came in late and left early, he never did any work, and he installed the korean version of media player 9 on all of our IT computers. He didn't know of or how to use any programming languages, yet he was an MSI major (which requires several courses in java and is geared toward troubleshooting and IT work).

He was going to be fired but he quit instead. Now he does IT for a nearby US Airforce base o_O

This guy has to be the WORST IT EVER
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

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Our old one. No accountability. He once dropped an entire database for reasons unknown to anyone--and had no backup. Fortunately the creator had (ugh) printed out all of the SQL to recreate it... but all we had was that hard copy. So I ended up having to OCR the printouts, correct the OCRs mistakes, and then we had our database back.
He had mistakes like this at least every month or two, aside from our Exchange server crashes on a regular basis (at least twice a week, and that was a GOOD week).
He was also a two-faced backstabber who screwed many of us over when given the opportunity.
 
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Billzie7718

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I am in I.T. Anything that can be done remotely ... IS done remotely. What most people dont understand is that we have to put up with bad I.T. support too because when we call for warranty service on hardware it is usually someone that you cant understand who is asking if you tried rebooting the keyboard yet.
 
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