IT Guys

Right click fixes EVERYTHING

 

something goes wrong on your computer that's gonna take more than a few minutes to fix, you let them know to reach you on your mobile when it's done and go down the pub.

easy.

 

LOL! You're not missing out on anything. I used to be one of those guys. What makes their work look so impressive is they know how to open up and look inside things that your basic user never had a clue existed on your system.

C'mon Peter, sales people have ALL the fun!

 

I've never worked for a company with an IT department that wasn't an absolute joke.

 

Agreed. In the words of one guy from another forum 'all this wizardry of the IT guy is just that they know of the undocumented, unmentioned and utterly obscure programs and shortcuts that Microsoft doesn't feel like telling you they included with your operating system."

Little things like msconfig, dxdiag, regedit or even simply hitting ctrl+alt+delete and then switching tabs and shutting down processes rather than programs.

 

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Yup. But when I say it takes two minutes and it ends up taking two hours - there's a few things that I didn't take into account: other issues that were not mentioned, or something horribly gone wrong. I don't know of IT guys that would overbill many hours over. Those are called consultants. As for knowing what you do, where you go, it all depends - there are some clues, yes. But knowing everything... it is relative to what you are considering 'everything', especially since you let them work on your system.

I've pondered starting up remote IT help, especially for fchatters - which I could control your end of the screen once you request help and allow such actions to be made. And on the flip side, I can always show you my side too. Any thoughts on this?

 

LOL, try bring the sales staff AND the IT guy for the office. I was the stupid bastid that opened the worm ridden email, and I'm the guy that's gotta fix it! (wit a little help from my friends!)

 

Hey, go easy on the consultants.

 

It's not as glamorous as it seems.

 

Nobody. *sigh* :'(

 

I make it a point to make friends with the IT guys. Kinda like HR. You never know when that friendship might come in handy, and it never hurts to be friendly. I too was an IT man. Was an IT assistant for 3 years at a large dealership group. Deep-rooted respect for all who dare approach that career.

 

i wish people could make the distinction between IT and Systems Development.

i get knuckleheads bugging me all day about not being able to send an email or print a document or log on or some crap. hello people, Programmer here! i'm at the other spectrum, creating new and improved bugs to keep IT guys in employment long after i've left with the money.

to people like me, a computer problem represents a welcome opportunity to get away from the dam thing.

 

So YOU'RE the one.
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Not to feel sorry for me but...

I worked a full day yesterday starting at 5:00 am and then I went back in at 8:00 pm for my maintenance window to add another 4tb Nexsan shelf to the iSCSI array for the WinTel and AIX hosts and and to reinistall Oracle and move data from on LUN to another LUN. I finished @ 4:00 am. Also, on of the Stonefly's failed in the process. I had to resinstall from an image.

 

Wow, how did you do all that in -1 hours? Oh, wait...

Fortunately, my maintenance window is on Sunday afternoon.

 

I am an IT guy and oh so under paid (sure I am still in college, but dammit I have a BS) and pretty much on call 24/7. Aaah yes the days of being woken up at the crack of dawn because the server crashed and the stupid adminstrator is nowhere to be found.

I feel sorry for IT guys, I hope when I grow up it isn't what I do all day.

 

You are exactly what corporations want, in short.... young cheap technical help, not experienced enough to demand TRUE technician wages. Don't take this as a condescend, this is the reality that which is Information Technology.

Your Admin is smart, he/she is nowhere to be found because they don't want to hear the b!itching on the other end of the line. When the system is up and running, only then will the crisis end and everybody forgets that there was a problem in the first place. It's a thankless job.

 

Oh so far from the truth. On Mac's, there is no right click. AH-HA, fix that one!

j/k

I do the 10.3 OS and 10.4 OS (Dashboard RULES) for Apple locally and it is a completely different (and better) world than PC's. On a Mac, if a program crashes, you delete the *.plist and the preferences, do a back door update, problem solved, usually. If that does not work, you delete all the files related to that app, and a downgrade install, then upgrade it with a fresh download and install (thru the back end) and that solves it. But if it does not, an archive and install does solve the problem, but it hardly needs to get to that point ever.

No registry to edit, no command prompts to run thru, no msconfig, no spyware (Internet Explorer is the DEVIL), and virtually no viruses to worry about.

 

Thats why I told the bossman to give me a fatter paycheck or I am taking a research position with a really fat paycheck.