Hmm
**flexes fingers**

I've got a few stories that relate here...

I'm in IT and, frankly, I'm damned good at what I do - always have been*

I used to do desktop support - you know, you call, bloke comes to your desk to fix your PC - A La "Moss" of the IT crowd. With less hair.

If we come to your PC and with a flourish of keys and blurred action and leave inside of 30 seconds, we knew what the problem was and fixed it and we've left all smug in the knowledge that, yes, "I am that good".

When we say things like "Ah, I've seen this before", we're lying. Big time. What it means is that we think we know, but we're going to click at stuff randomly and we might fix it. If we do, we'll say "Ah, I thought as much" and wander off looking pleased with ourselves, but in reality thinking "Arse, I hope I pulled that one off".

So when you're local IT guy comes and makes out he knows what he's doing, get him to explain it to you. In detail.

Watch him squirm.

Unless he's like me when he'll tell you any old crap to make you stop asking questions - I refer you to my earlier point of "we're lying". We do that. Lots.

* Well, apart from being "released from my probationary period" recently but that was because the company I worked for were hopeless and unsupportive and the guy I worked with was, frankly, a pompous ass. If you ask me, I'll tell you his name, the company's name and even give you his email address to spam him. Maybe.

(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 19:27, Reply)