Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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I have lots of these as I'm a business systems, erm, bloke.Newly employed older bloke in the office: "Hey, Actually, could you see what I've done wrong here, I'm using the test system to try out deleting (insert complicated bus. sys stuff here) and it's not showing up?" One glance at his screen - "erm, you've done it in the LIVE system". Consequence: 120 users get to twiddle their thumbs for half an hour while young'uns (me) take charge and fix it. This has happened several times now. I really want to stop him using the live system, but then we would have to to his entire job for him.
Vaguely unrelated . . .
In the pub as soon as people hear that you do IT, they start asking about their PC problems.
I always avoid a tedious conversation by saying "Unfortunately, if your computer's any smaller than this ... " (indicates the size of 10 filing cabinets / the moon) " ... I won't really have much idea." It's almost true.
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Actually i was skiving on, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 16:18,
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