I had one customer want me to come over on Christmas Eve. Fortunately I was going out of town so they had to settle for 8AM the day after Christmas. “People, what a bunch of bastards” Oh Lord, how I hate this one. Especially today. Mother’s Day Sunday, phone rings and it’s a client I [...]
Had this conversation a couple weeks ago… User: Hey Mike, my computer hasn’t worked for 3 days!! Can you please come help me? Me: really? 3 days and you’re just now calling me? User: I had other stuff to do. Me: Ok, are you sure it’s not just unplugged again? User: No – I [...]
I get a call – the usual: “The computer is slow.” After finding nothing wrong with the machine, the user states “this needs to be fixed now, the Internet is too slow.” After 5 mins of listening to this…I finally stated: “Ms. the Internet is slow because you are too far from the power line. [...]
Typical Monday morning rolls around, you know, the usual forgot password over the weekend calls. I get a call asking if we are having issues with email. My reply of course was not that we have heard yet. Knowing this person is not computer literate I remote in to save time for us both. Once [...]
This rage comic is a little busy but you’ll get the point. via: [Reddit]
I work as a Sys Admin at an Ivy League college for my department only. Our department manager thinks we do nothing but carry around keyboards and usb keys; she has stated as much to my supervisor. She is a mean, cold, evil woman who can’t remember her own name half the time. The other [...]
No, users NEVER get their password wrong. Never. Customer calls in. Outlook is working but he can’t into some other mail program. He “knows” he has the right password. Me: “Ok, so you just tried the password that you think it is and that didn’t work?” Cust: “That’s right.” Me: “Why don’t we just reset [...]
“Got a sales guy’s laptop back… Note the times.” *sigh* I like how the last couple links were for “Hard Disk Scrubber.” Cleanup fail – Rob via: [Reddit/Sysadmin]
I’m pretty sure the rule book says this offense is an automatic punch in the kidney. via: [Reddit]
So your friend had Windows 7 then got rid of Windows 7, then he installed viruses to get rid of a virus then you installed malware from a disk. Got it. via: [computing.net]