Thank fuck for Apple
Got a job as head of IT in December, administering an office full of Macs. Hadn't really used a Mac before, but assured them that I wouldn't have any problems doing it. So far, it's been an absolute piece of piss.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 15:31, 14 replies)

Do you drink chamomile tea
and ride a fixie to work?

Have you started lisping yet?
(username failed moderation, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 17:22, closed)

Yeah, but then you'll come to use an actual computer and realise that months of working with a Baby's First Colouring In Machine has buggered your tech ability.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 17:34, closed)

Are you sure?
He's basically admitted to not being able to do his job here.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 17:42, closed)

I thought we just took that as read, hence his lifestyle.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 18:14, closed)

I'm moderately impressed that you 2 can do the
"breathing/typing" combination.

So there you go!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 28 Mar 2013, 18:27, closed)

And here's Ringofyre, posting at roughly 4AM..

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 18:46, closed)

It was actually
about 0230.

I'm seeing that the "getting the concept of international timezones" is a bit beyond you.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 28 Mar 2013, 19:23, closed)

Go to bed dad, you're pissed again.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 29 Mar 2013, 19:31, closed)

I thought it was a good way of expanding my skill set
Previously all my IT experience was on PC networks and within my first month I'd installed an edit suite, a new server, a fibre network and a tape archive for backing up the footage, I'd replaced the ISP, recabled the office and restored a couple of the sales laptops. So while I was winging it at first, pretty much everything is new anyway and since I put it together, I know how it all works and nothing hardly ever goes wrong. In addition, I now run a mixed network of real computers and glorified Fisher Price activity centres at home and every day is an education in getting them to interact with each other.

All that and I get to write, produce, edit and direct videos professionally. Win-win, I think they call it.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 29 Mar 2013, 7:53, closed)

Head of IT?
Don't you mean desktop support monkey?
(Brigadier an old boot sitting on a man's face - forever, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 18:46, closed)

Ah now, it's a stressful job, what happens if switching it off then on again doesn't work?

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 18:47, closed)

Take the cartridge out, blow on it, put it back in.
Or rewind the cassette with a pencil.
(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Fri 29 Mar 2013, 7:25, closed)

That's a bit harsh.
He got the job without any technical assessment and it apparently requires little effort. It is clearly an extremely important position.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 29 Mar 2013, 15:45, closed)

I think this is less "winging it" and more "I was interviewed and subsequently given a job by a fucking idiot".

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 20:00, closed)