Dear Users... (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people)

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I joined the Office Productivity Division of a large multinational which was known, as was standard in that company, by its initials as OPD. A couple of years later, following the inevitable reorg, the name was changed to Pinewood Information Systems Division; the official abbreviation chosen, however, was PWD.
 
My dad joked that his first job when he got out of the Army was as an Establishment Inspector, Establishment Inspector's Office. Guess where he told everyone he worked.
 
I've been able to name my own role several times but my favourite has always been:

Director of Development Operations

or as I would use under my name:

DODO.
 
xterra said:
But I am not.
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I didn't say you should ask him directly but only that you could. With the inference being you have access to Facebook. I was sortta depending on you because I don't have an account either. Surely there must be someone on this forum who does, or are we really all as smart as we think we are? :o
 
Perhaps – and this is just a(n) hypothesis, understand – not having a Facebook account is a mark of a higher ... ummm, never mind.

If one doesn't have a Facebook account, can one still access Facebook?
 
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xterra said:
Perhaps – and this is just a(n) hypothesis, understand – not having a Facebook account is a mark of a higher ... ummm, never mind.

If one doesn't have a Facebook account, can one still access Facebook?
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You can; how much you see of a particular person’s timeline depends on their privacy settings.
 
Sigh. Dude wants to "arrange a call so he can understand the issue". The issue is: piece of data A isn't coming out of the database. Why? Because nobody puts piece of data A into the database. He doesn't understand why I can't include it on an extract anyway.

He's scheduled an hour for this call. I don't think it'll be enough.
 
Wudang said:
Mail him an empty envelope. Tell him to take the solution out of the envelope.
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I took the professional route: I blocked off the same proposed time on my calendar for another call, then called my mother. I listened to her litany of complaints about everything from her kitchen cabinets to some attitude displayed by her sister's husband in 1971. Much less annoying than explaining Where Data Comes From to somebody. (When a boy datum loves a girl datum very much sometimes they make data in a database!)
 
Now they want to know why I can't "just add" the data to the database. Because a) I don't have access to add things, I'm a read-only user, and don't own any tables--nobody in my entire silo is allowed to add things to the database, and b) I don't know the data to add. I don't even know who in the company to ask what the data in question should be. And neither do these people, now including my chain of command, asking me to do it.

To sum up: I'm to add something nobody knows to a database that isn't mine and I don't have authority or access to write to. And can I do it quickly? No. No, I cannot.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Back in the 90's I was the National IT manager in Australia for a US company.

I reported to the Global IT manager.

Our US parent company was notably irony-free...
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Well "git" is not really a very commonly used perjorative in the US. i think I first encountered it in the Beattles' song, "I'm so tired"

I'm so tired, I think I'll have another cigarette,
And curse Sir Walter Raliegh, he was such a stupid git.
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