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Can't leave them for a minute!
Went to a user conference for this software program that I support, configure and also use and that most of my company uses. Very fun conference in Put-in-Bay Island, Ohio, and actually very informative, made a lot of contacts and got to meet my support people at the company that I rely on a lot. Didn't hear anything the entire 3 days I was gone, mostly because I had almost no signal on the island and the schedule didn't provide me with any time to go online. So on Tuesday, day 2 of the conference, I talk to a support guy who tells me of what almost happened when I was gone the day before. He asked them to please restart the program on their computer. The next thing he knew they are trying to figure out the password to the server! So overhearing that, he interrupts and clarifies that he meant the program on their individual computer and that he would NEVER have them restart the server as a first step solution to an issue. *sigh* [By: redfaery
/ 2009-07-02 To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting. -e.e.cummings]
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AHHHH! The website is down!!! Offsite Link -Biosynthetic
That "Websiteisdown" website seems is fake, it's not even funny anymore. -Caboose447
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Wired Wireless???
So I get a call from a MANAGER at one of our branch office last week. His mouse isn't working. Most of our places have wireless so my guess 99% of the time is right: Dead batteries. Sir is your mouse wireless? "Yeah, I think so" Think so? Flip it over and you should see a battery compartment. "No, no I don't see one of those, let me move this wire and see". What wire? "The one on the mouse", But I thought you said it was wireless? "Well I thought it was, maybe I was wrong" Anyway, this goes on for about 30 minutes. The computer SEES the mouse, I have unplug it and plug it back in and its re-dected as a wireless mouse. But it still won't work. Sir are you SURE this isn't wireless? Flip it over again and read to me what it says. *I should have asked that right away!* "Microsoft Wireless Mouse Receiver V1.0." Wireless Mouse RECEIVER?? Is that what you're using on your desk? "Well yeah" OK sir go find the actual MOUSE. *few minutes later* "Oohhh here it is! It works!" God bless! Did this guy just suddenly forget what a mouse was??? Jesus, he uses the computer everyday! Or so I thought...[By: MothMonsterMan / 2009-07-02]
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Is the new ACME wireless/wired mouse! -TheGhost
what the hell was he trying to click with?! -fearnothing
Agree with fearnothing, the lack of BUTTONS should've been a clue to him. -Calydor
<da>my wireless trackball receiver has a button on the top to sync it, so maybe he was trying to use that one?</da> -docbrown01
well..mine does have a single button in the middle of it, to force a synch...
still not an excuse. -dredtech
I actually used to have a wired wireless mouse. You could remove the top shell, unravel a cord, and plug the cord into the receiver, either for if you're out of batteries or just want to make the batteries last longer. Just unplug the cord, wind it up and store it inside the mouse, and presto, wireless. The mouse was a POS though. -linuxmatt
Apparently, the "any key" user and the "footmouse" user had a child. Damien!!! -Biosynthetic
Maybe he was trying to click on the charger contacts? Wire it up with 240V and see what happens. -AussieFoot
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karma request
So i came back from vacation today, to find a voicemail requiring my attendance at a mandatory meeting this afternoon.
Hmm, well this can't be good i think to myself.
In a go, an innocent sacraficial lamb to the slaughter, to find several company vp's and head of human resources corraling most of the call center into a small meeting room.
The smell of fear is thick in the room, the faces of the supervisors are quite grim indeed.
"oh noes, whats this, did they find the stash in the server rooms again?"
even better. it appears that in their great wisdom c0x has pulled our contract, and in 60 days we're all jobless.
"well, no need to file those complaints with the labor board after all"
They say trhey will help us find jobs at other projects within the company, but none of those jobs allow telecommuting of course...(after 3 years of working from home i don't even have a bloody car anymore)
Oh and you may take a pay cut, since your seniority won't matter over there.
Frack me. This blows.
Anyone know of a decent telecommuting tech support job?
[By: dredtech / 2009-07-02]
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That bites. But, at least you've got some time to prepare for the other shoe. Luck! -MadJack
I was a telecommuting ditch-digger once. No, wait...that was a game of Oregon Trail. Never mind. -Biosynthetic
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My Starfish Moment, D'oh
In order to do some work on one certain part of a project, I have to change the DNS entry on my local machine. After finishing up my work, I went to lunch. I came back and tried to start work on another project and could not connect with it. I asked if others were having problem, nobody was. "So why can't I connect...oh, nevermind." And quietly went in and reset my DNS to automatic and about my work.[By: LordObsidian / 2009-07-02]
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Ouch! Did it hurt when you LARTted yourself right in the middle of the office like that ? -Necros
Don't feel too bad... I just did that the other day. I was helping a co-worker wipe and reload his PC (he received a hand-me-down). I made the mistake of "assuming" he was using an image off our ghost-cast server, and not using an ACTUAL windows installation disc. Low and behold... tried to connect it to the domain, and I kept going WTF?! Then I realized no Internet connection... "But how can this be?!" Checked Device Manager, missing Ethernet and SMBUS controller drivers. D'OH!!! -DarthKoenig
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‘Attending Conferences’ vs 'Having A Job
I wonder at what point my attending of conferences will = my actual job :(
Offsite Link[By: cianw
/ 2009-07-01 ]
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thanks, I needed that laugh... -rosemetal
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BBerry woes
Hey all, been a while since I posted and the title pretty much explains it all. We got the BES setup and distributed about 200 BBerries. Sprint came and did some "training" to which apparently *no one* paid attention to/didn't understand. The last three months have been spent supporting primarily the phones. The call I got this morning should put it into perspective. Me- "IT department this is Kiddingme" M0r0n- "Yeah, my BlackBerry says to enter the word blackberry to unlock....what do I do?" Me- *headdesk headdesk headdesk* "Type...in...the...word....blackberry". [By: Kiddingme / 2009-07-01]
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You should have told them to enter the word "dingleberry". -CyBear
I am surprised the story ended there. I was expecting: M0r0n- "Yeah, it's a BlackBerry. Can you help me or not?" -LordObsidian
I often use the phrase "what happens when you try to...". -Holdfast
"OK, let's see if we can figure this out. Sounds like a pretty obscure problem. You said the message was, "Enter the word "Blackberry" to unlock"? Hmmm... Well, the last two words were "to unlock". Do you think they're trying to tell us something? I know, they're telling us that we can unlock it by doing something. Most of these devices want you to "enter" something to tell it "to unlock", do you think they might actually tell us what to "enter" "to unlock" it? What else could be there to "enter"? Hmmm... Wasn't there another word in that message that might give us a clue what to "enter"? I know, why don't you try, "theword" and see if that doesn't work! Didn't work, huh? OK... well, the only thing left is "Blackberry", so why don't you try that? It worked? Really? Well, if that don't beat all!" -Voz
Ah, yes, "It says enter your old password. Should I put in my old password?" -sassicatz
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Now slightly less clueless
I know we've all got stories of "now right-click...no, the other right" etc etc, but I finally got to the end of my tether dealing with a (l)user who, shall we say, suffered from mixed laterality. I went and wrote a large L and R on her mouse buttons. And no, she's not left-handed.[By: SoldierJedi / 2009-07-01]
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Did you write TGIF in her shoes, too? -LordObsidian
LordO: Her shoes or her shirt ? -Necros
When I worked for a tree trimming service, one of the climbers put his spikes (for climbing trees) on backwards. When the owner asked him what he thought the L and the R engraved on the spikes was for, another climber laughingly responded "Raise and Lower?" -ActingUpAgain
First rule of tree planting: Green up, brown down. -CyBear
... and landscaping! -digitalguy1127
Ambi-sextrous = Knows how to F-up with either hand. -AussieFoot
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Dead Pool continued...
RIP Karl Malden. Offsite Link
This seems to be a very unlucky couple of weeks for the celebrities... [By: chazz
/ 2009-07-01 This is what entertainment is all about -- Starfish, explosives, and falling anvils.]
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No kidding... glad I'm a nobody! -Voz
That makes 6, 2 sets of 3. So maybe things will be quiet for a while? -atomicbill
hmm youd think the anthopomorfic personoification and death of rats would have been getting bored. -Harm
Even by lesser celebrity standards, the pool's gone from squared to cubed, b/c starting w/ David Carradine & counting Mays the pitchman & Fred Travelena, Karl makes 7. Another two more before things even out. Not good, considering that all of them but Carradine have dropped in the last seven days. -MadJack
Oh wow! One I've actually heard of...(Billy who? Fred who?) -lineswine
A rather local celebrity died in the same timeframe, as well. Those of you who follow the PBS networks may have heard of John Calloway, from "Chicago Tonight with John Calloway". He's gone as well. -Grue
My name is Robert Neville. I am a survivor living in Hollywood. I am broadcasting on all AM frequencies. I will be at the Brown Derby everyday at mid-day, when the sun is highest in the sky. If you are out there... if anyone is out there... I can provide photos, I can provide soudbites, I can provide paparazzi. If there's anybody out there... anybody... please. You are not alone. -Biosynthetic
^ +1 -ThinTheHerd
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