Being told off as an adultWhen was the last time you were properly told off? You know: treated as an errant child rather than the sophisticated adult you are.
The sort of thing that dredges up an involuntary teenage mumble of "Sorry, Miss" whilst you stare at the ground.
Go on, tell us what childish thing you were up to when you got caught.
Oh, and can we have more than one-line answers this time? Cheers!
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chthonic, Thu 20 Sep 2007, 17:18)
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Chart CatHas reminded me of my own little IT story.
I was good and tested something - I'll not bore you with what it was - but I was good and documented it, raised the right paperwork, etc, etc.
Anyway, I sent out this software to 10 servers. Fine, not a problem.
Phone rings:
Caller: "JTW, did you do x??
JTW: "Who are you?"
Caller: "Did you do x?"
JTW - Irate: "Who the hell are you?"
Caller: "The n council service desk manager"
JTW: "So?"
Caller: "Well, what you did had the result of...."
He went on to chew me out about why what I'd done had taken down the n service desk (for turned out to be 2 hours). The worst part was that he was right and that I had no comeback as I was completely in the wrong.
The rest of the morning was spent fending off phone calls from all sorts of account managers and the like asking me what I'd done, why and that it was "terribly unprofessional".
The worst part was that noone shouted at me or had a go - there was just a lot of sighs and "we don't expect this from you of all people, JTW"
Council name withheld for legal reasons (Really...)
(, Mon 24 Sep 2007, 14:44, Reply)
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