Dear Users… (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people) Part 10

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Oh, dear. Someone is attempting to throw me under a bus! That...doesn't work on me. I keep the emails. I'm un-bus-throw-underable.
 
Go to a ten minute company meeting. It'll last the whole two and a half hours and you can sleep through it.
 
Wudang said:
When I was a junior systems programmer at IBM UK my team lead was the chief system programmer for something called IMS which was the main, in modern terms think of it as the DB and web server hosting other applications. Some major problems me and another sysyprog took turns acting as doormen. Managers of application teams would wander by "looking for an update" and we'd stop them and ask if they'd prefer an update or a fix.
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I thought "update" was what they used to call a fix.
 
arthwollipot said:
Does anyone have a sure-fire method of making two and a half hours speed by real fast?
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Way too late for this occasion, but keep this up your sleeve for next time.

Start a task that you can easily complete in an hour, and then deal with the 5,000 interruptions. (Your two and a half hours will fly past).
 
Norman Alexander said:
Counting all the letter "e"'s in a week's worth of the Canberra Times newspaper??
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I stopped reading the Times when they changed to a subscription-only model.

novaphile said:
Way too late for this occasion, but keep this up your sleeve for next time.

Start a task that you can easily complete in an hour, and then deal with the 5,000 interruptions. (Your two and a half hours will fly past).
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Friday evening there aren't all that many interruptions.
 
arthwollipot said:
Friday evening there aren't all that many interruptions.
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Really? We work in very different corporate cultures. At my company, Friday night is when people send all their emails about critical things, so they can on Monday morning say "I sent my input to Jim last week and haven't heard back", thus scoring points and making Jim look bad. The canny know when to check their emails and when to fire off replies. Best is when someone's clearly lobbed the potato at you right before they leave for vacation, so you can reply within a minute and get their "out of office" automated message, which you can then forward to their boss with the remark "I guess Brenda didn't remember about this until the very last minute" and such.
 
arthwollipot said:
Norman Alexander said:
Counting all the letter "e"'s in a week's worth of the Canberra Times newspaper??
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I stopped reading the Times when they changed to a subscription-only model.

novaphile said:
Way too late for this occasion, but keep this up your sleeve for next time.

Start a task that you can easily complete in an hour, and then deal with the 5,000 interruptions. (Your two and a half hours will fly past).
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Friday evening there aren't all that many interruptions.
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Not in this job, but we did actually do these:

1) Set up an in-office gaming competition. In our case it was Descent II and Wolfenstein.

2) Watch a movie or YouTube online.
 
It happened again.

I got another compliment on the quality of my IVR voice. This person actually said I had a "radio voice" which I pointed out was exactly why I got the job in the first place.

Take that, Impostor Syndrome!
 
arthwollipot said:
It happened again.

I got another compliment on the quality of my IVR voice. This person actually said I had a "radio voice" which I pointed out was exactly why I got the job in the first place.

Take that, Impostor Syndrome!
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But can you do the Bullwinkle voice? That's how I once got my team out of having to attend a very boring monthly conference call.
 
The Man said:
Blackboards?

Ahh, we used to dream of having blackboards!!

In OUR day we'd place rocks as inputs on levers constructed by baboons. The outputs were the rocks (and whatever) that got hurled back at you.

Ya tell techs today that and they won't believe you.
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You were lucky. I'm currently having to work on a web application written in classic ASP and Microsoft Frontpage.
 
jeremyp said:
You were lucky. I'm currently having to work on a web application written in classic ASP and Microsoft Frontpage.
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Shut up! ASP was awesome! I used to have a job doing nothing but ASP! Cutting edge stuff!....although that was twenty-something years ago. Ahem. Well, it's still cool. I mean, it's still recognizable as having once been cool. Shut up, I'm not old! I'm not old!!!
 
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