IT "support" at my work
"Some users will currently be unable to access their email. The cause is being investigated and we hope to resolve this problem as soon as possible.
If you wish to be e-mailed whenever messages are added to this page, send an e-mail consisting of the word subscribe to [email protected]"
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:12, 6 replies)

And that was in an e-mail?
seriously?

EDIT: Doh! but still....
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:14, closed)

I like reading stories of IT plebs
who can't tell their arse from their elbow after somehow gaining just a single "MCP" type joke of a qualification, yet are paid more than me, it makes me feel warm inside and like the world is a fine, lovely place filled with little umpah lumpahs making chocolate just for me.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:31, closed)

Heh - MCP as a qualification
Doesn't it mean you know how to turn a computer off and on again?

*snigger*

But I know what you mean - the amount of computers I've sorted for people who've put them into a 'professional' shop for fixing and got them back in the same condition or worse...me? almost totally self taught (29 years of 'puter experience - can still remember the first day I walked past the school computer room and spied the glowing black and green screens...)
( snee held his breath since, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:53, closed)

Aye, me too....
I've about 25 years experience of fixing, building, repairing, servicing, installing PC's and networks, internet fixing, virus clearing etc. etc. and I can't get a job doing what I know best cos I don't have a fucking microsoft qualification. The amount of times I've had to fix stuff that 'my mates lad fixed, he's just done computers at uni so he knows what he's doing' bollocks, or fucking PC World (allegedly). Does me heed in...
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 21:51, closed)

We use BT as our internet provider at work
On occasion* the service goes down meaning someone has to call India the local call centre to find out what the blithering feck is going on...

Doncha just love the recorded message? something along the lines of: "Thank you for ringing the broadband fault line - sorry for the delay. You can check the status of your line online at..."

Feckers...

*twice a month on average
( snee held his breath since, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 13:55, closed)

We get these!
Only the address ends in .nhs.uk
( Duncan Disorderly, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 19:50, closed)