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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people have no ideaused to do IT support for a large organisation meant to have the most intelligent people in the country working there. these are a small selection of the 'IT Problems' they would have.
* one particular office's cd roms were refusing to work at a rate of about 1 per week for about a month. went down early one day and noticed the entire office were using the open cd trays as cup holders for cantine coffee cups.
* 'my monitor isnt showing any picture' after making the users assure me the machines were powered on, i would visit and turn the machine on. funny a few times, after the millionth time, and having to walk 30 minutes across london carrying a backup machine - not so.
* someone was moaning about emails not getting through, had to explain that you couldnt jsut type peoples names in the 'To:' field, when they had nothing to do with the organisation and were 'friends from school' (decades previous) who they wondered were on email or not. . .
* loads more, falling asleep.
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 0:21, Reply)
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