IT SupportOur IT support guy has been in the job since 1979, and never misses an opportunity to pick up a mouse and say "Hello computer" into it, Star Trek-style. Tell us your tales from the IT support cupboard, either from within or without.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 12:45)
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Ship BThis may be the first of many stories from when I was a consultant doing IT support for another company. Said other company employed fifty or so people, almost all stone bonkers. One woman was especially annoying. She didn't walk, she bounded everywhere, like a PE teacher on speed. She didn't talk, she bellowed at you as if you were two hundred feet away. And one day, she encountered a HP LaserJet II. This was before printer drivers were specific, like they are now. Almost all printers emulated one or another of the big three - LaserJet II, Postscript, or Epson FX-80. HP called these "personalities". Anyhow, somehow I mixed up the print queues, and she ended up sending Postscript to a printer that couldn't handle it, producing the traditional error.
She bounded over to me and bellowed: "The printer says I've got a bad personality!" I had to go to the machine room to laugh. Then I fixed it.
(, Sat 26 Sep 2009, 20:48, Reply)
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