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lolotehe wrote in techsupport Jul 19, 2011 12:56

HIM: You guys are just plumbers for computers.

ME: Plumbers never have to listen to how people aren't "toilet literate".

Jobs!

kizayaen wrote in techsupport Jul 01, 2011 07:47

For any of you overqualified people stuck on a tier 1 helpdesk making beans ( Read more... )

Things I Am Not Allowed To Do At Work, Part 5

delta_mike wrote in techsupport Jul 01, 2011 12:09

( Previously. Recap: University sysadmin.)

Install signs of any description next to the building's motorized rotating doors.
... Especially labels that read, "It is perfectly safe to walk through this device."
... Especially when the label can only be read after stepping inside.
Grief the undergraduates on the Minecraft server they're running on one ( Read more... )

amusement, skippys_list

Contrary to popular belief, I do not have magical powers because I can replace your keyboard.

hairbrush wrote in techsupport Jun 29, 2011 12:00

Background: I do freelance repair while I'm finishing up school. I work out of my home.

Okay, this client dropped off his Sony laptop with me because the keyboard needed to be replaced. Seems simple enough, right? Well, I fix that, call him to let him know he can pick it up, should be end of story, right?

...Of course it isn't that easy.

Colonel ( Read more... )

Question

lolotehe wrote in techsupport Jun 21, 2011 12:05

Soooooo.....there's this story going around that watching reality TV makes you, shall we say, less intelligent. The hypothesis seems sound enough, just another example of primingSo if watching someone do something dumb makes you dumb, can talking to dumb people* make you dumb ( Read more... )

Ah, retail.

tanamiya wrote in techsupport Jun 18, 2011 20:00

Paraphrased to stick to the point ( Read more... )

Quick! Stage an intervention!

mouser wrote in techsupport Jun 09, 2011 17:11

The entire ticket:
Dr XXXXX states his computer is acting like it wants to crash

So, is it acting depressed? Wearing black and acting listless? Playing really sad MP3s? Only displaying in Black and white? Is it running Windows 95?

a letter I'd love to write to my fellow employees...

jecook wrote in techsupport Jun 03, 2011 21:09

Dear everyone who has a mailbox on the exchange mailstore that is 60 gig in size and growingWhile Yes, the IT department is sitting on a giant pile of disk, none of it is currently availible to the mail server because it can't grok NFS shares, nor does it have a connection to the SAN and it's giant disk ( Read more... )

Server stupidity

grayhawkfh wrote in techsupport Jun 02, 2011 11:00

Yeah, it's been a while since I posted anything. But here's some fun I've been dealing with ( Read more... )

College exam question

mix_hyenataur wrote in techsupport May 29, 2011 23:01

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