Thought I'd forgotten to copy a director's data
before wiping his laptop. That was a pretty pant-shitting moment.
( Kroney, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:07, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

I copied our development manager's data onto the network and rebuilt her laptop from scratch
to find that some "helpful" person had "tidied" the shared area....

2 weeks after I started
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:10, Reply)

If you take two weeks to copy data to and fro
you probably deserved it, you lazy bastard.
( Kroney, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:12, Reply)

oh ho

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:12, Reply)

Yup
Outlook pst files are the worst, nobody realises they're on the HDD till it dies and takes them with it, lost forever with no backup.....
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:11, Reply)

Many years ago we had a virus outbreak and immediately pulled the internet plug
I was logging into mailboxes to remove the emails and then emptying the "Deleted Items" folders when afterwards one of our developers complained that all his important files had gone.

Me: "Where were they held?"
Him: "Deleted Items folder"
Me: "....."
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:14, Reply)

WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS?

( Kroney, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:15, Reply)

INORITE
I'll keep all my important documents VITAL for work in the bin
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:16, Reply)

Or on the desktop, the only other place with no backup.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:18, Reply)

i keep everything on my desktop cos it's quickest and easiest

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:27, Reply)

TGDGI^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:28, Reply)

yeah but it's EASIEST
and to be honest, I don't know how to map drives or which letter drive I should use, so desktop it is
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:29, Reply)

If only there was an IT department to ask, eh?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:30, Reply)

yeah, like they are going to be any help
have you listened to yourselves recently?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:31, Reply)

I'll have you know that I'm exceedingly helpful
even to cunts
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:32, Reply)

But why is it all P drive and M drive
I just want a file called 'Put stuff here' I want it on the desktop and I want it from day one
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:32, Reply)

Two second job that

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:33, Reply)

for you maybe

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:34, Reply)

Damn right

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:35, Reply)

Open command prompt and type
net use *: \\servername\drivename$
( Kroney, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:33, Reply)

1. WTF is command prompt?
2. why would I type that?
3. Why can't you do it for me?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:34, Reply)

1: Start, All Programs, Accessories, Command Prompt
2: Try it
3: Because I don't work for your company, dumbass.
( Kroney, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:35, Reply)

i ent trying shit, it's probably virus or malware or something

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:36, Reply)

also you don't even know if I'm using a dell or Asos or IBM
so it probably won't even work
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:38, Reply)

Firstly Asos are a clothing company
Secondly if you're using Windows it'll work.
( Kroney, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:39, Reply)

ok, nothing happened

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:41, Reply)

That's because you actually typed
\\servername\shareddrive$ instead of the server the drive is on and the name of the share you want to connect to, isn't it?
( Kroney, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:44, Reply)

HOW DO I KNOW WHAT THE SERVER IS CALLED AND WHAT DRIVES TO SHARE WITH??!
this is my whole point, just save it to the desktop and be done with it
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:46, Reply)

I do love it when Kroney tries to explain something to you.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:47, Reply)

I wish he was better at it, I never know what the fuck he is on about

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:49, Reply)

This is why your IT department refuses to help you.

( Kroney, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:52, Reply)

i don't really want their help tbh
I just want them to do it
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:53, Reply)

It's no wonder they give him all the shit jobs at his place.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:53, Reply)

I think my work here is done, think I'm pop off home now

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:55, Reply)

This is just like cars
A BMW has a completely different way to drive it than an Audi.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:42, Reply)

I typed in net use *: \\servername\drivename$
and nothing happened, I'm not sure Kroney even works with computers
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:43, Reply)

ffs

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:44, Reply)

He does! Why he sent me a pic of him working busy busy the other day

( Theoban What of it, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:48, Reply)

Depends, if the run box or cmd prompt is disabled by group policy he won't be able to.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:43, Reply)

that's when you make a .bat file and doubleclick it.

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:16, Reply)

Yeah, but he prints emails, so you would expect that kind of thing from him.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:30, Reply)

yeah well when kroney has to "rebuild" my "computer" and "sync" the "files"
I'll be the one laughing as I leaf through my correspondences
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:32, Reply)

you can set up a desktop sync

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:29, Reply)

There's a plug in

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:30, Reply)

The bin, by the way, that tries to destroy everything in it on a regular basis
unless you specifically tell it not to.
( Kroney, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:19, Reply)

Yeah
That bin
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:20, Reply)

Ahah, no-one will think to look in my deleted items!
It's the last place I'd hide something TRULY important
( Theoban What of it, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:17, Reply)