i rang our IT team with an issue yesterday
after my stupid computer fucking froze with instructions to counsel that had taken about 4 hours to draft on the screen.

i was not inspired with confidence when he jumped on my machine remotely, and promptly said, "what the hell does that mean?"
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:26, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN
Get them to setup autosave
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:27, Reply)

autosave is a fucking god send

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:29, Reply)

it wouldn't be necessary if computers didn't fuck themselves up regularly
i hate computers
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:30, Reply)

Save as you're going along. If you don't and your machine freezes
and you lose 4 hours work, the attitude will be "it's your own fucking fault".
( Kroney, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:28, Reply)

*IT high-fives*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:28, Reply)

it was on autosave
that's not the point. the point is, it took 30 mins to fix, which was 30 mins where i could do no work, and that costs the firm money. WHY HAVE WE UPGRADED TO A SHINY NEW SYSTEM THAT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK AS WELL AS THE OLD ONE?

the worst is this message that pops up saying "CATASTROPHIC FAILURE" accompanied by an icon at the bottom of the screen of a furtive little man legging it out of a door.

nobody in our IT team seems to know why that message appears. or what it means.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:29, Reply)

I don't care about any of that shit.
You got the new system because the old system was probably out of support. Now shut up and stop whinging. Talk to me when something's actually broken, not when you're just bloo blooing because you'd be happier with a typewriter you knuckledragging Luddite HEATHEN
( Kroney, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:31, Reply)

^ customer service award imminent.

( Kroney, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:33, Reply)

^ 'Star Of The Month' Award
or as we call it the "Doing the job you're fucking paid to do" Award.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:40, Reply)

They're usually awarded to the miserable, hormonal 50 year old woman who keeps threatening to leave and spends half her time crying the bogs, lamenting her diminishing monthly cycles.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:45, Reply)

at 50?
i fucking hope they've gone long before then
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:49, Reply)

Rachel in showing total lack of knowledge of how her own body functions.
www.nhs.uk/conditions/Menopause/Pages/Introduction.aspx
(Bazongaloid, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:54, Reply)

you know what, i bloody well would
no freezing, no losing the last few paragraphs, nobody scratching their balls on the other end of the phone and making me ruin my heels and nails crawling around under the desk to "turn it off and on again"...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:33, Reply)

We implant webcams under the desks for just such a reason

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:38, Reply)

I bet there's traces of Tipp-ex on your screen....

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:40, Reply)

i'm not blonde

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:43, Reply)

Tipp-ex rust
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 11:46, Reply)