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Beer?

 

If there's one thing that grates my boat it's ungreatful users and co-workers!

You bust your gut to ensure things go smoothly but there's always a problem........ah!!

Know how you feel mate.... chin up!

 

It’s a no love industry!

Our network downtime is minimal as if we need to do any server work, maintenance, hardware upgrades etc we come in over the weekend or stay late at night to do it. This isn’t paid but as a team we gladly do it as this is our profession and it is our job to keep the network users up and running.

When we do inform users that we are taking the network down for some reason or other the place goes berserk, as if we have just committed a crime. “Dead lines have to be made…” “Payments are due… oh god why now???”

Thing that annoys me the most is when I walk around the offices I see everyone on the internet all day or playing solitaire. They never do anything and I honestly believe some of them wait until we cause them problems so they have excuses.

The amount of times I hear telephone conversations go like this “Yes sorry sir I understand that we promised you payment last week but the computers have been down… I know its always like this…”

My other favourite is when people are talking about cut backs at the company and they say “Get rid of IT, they don’t do anything… the computers hardly go wrong do they” – Always contradicting themselves at our place!

Never mind mate I know exactly were you are coming from and so will plenty of others. I have had project migrations and the first thing anyone says (and I have written it down before they say it) is “Can you put the old system back in, I preferred it…”

Users whine all the time for ‘new super systems’ but they also don’t like change.

In fact all the users care about here is if they get a flat screen.

 

This is how I hear it from my users...

"This system sucks"

"Dont change (improve) the system, it's bad enough as it is."

"This new (faster, more reliable) system sucks, the old one was great."

And round and round we go...

Like ungrateful children.

J.

 

Chin up Spark! Sounds like an awkward client to me...

 

42

 

Life, the universe and everything?

By the way did you know the answer was [HIDE]what's 6x8? So the universe is fundamentally f*cked[/HIDE] ?

J.

 

whats 42?

i can think of is

4q ...to the client that is

 

Actually the question was 6x9 (as pulled out froma bag of scrabble letters). Which goes to show that the universe is more screwed than you thought....

As for days like yours Sparky, we all get em. I remeber having a guy tell me he needed his PC and couldnt afford the downtime ittook to fix it.. Yet i caught him an hour later playing spider solitaire... hour after that he was still at it!!!

Its life.. but not as we know it captain!

 

I like your style mate.

Better yet you could just open the server room door and yell it out. Watch them run then.

 

Gotta love server room doors where the users cant get in........ safety!!

 

and if there's a power cut, you have the UPS to buil the kettle...

 

LMAO, we're not even allowed paper in our server room, we'd be strung up by the goolies for drinking a brew.

Our server room is so secure, not even Security can get in which is a little puzzling in my mind but that's the way of the world.

 

which means nobody could stop you making the tea!

 

Apologies to everyone.
I haven't read every post.

But clients are b@st@rds.
They don't know what they want, or when they want it.

Then it's you're fault when it's wrong.

Life, don't talk to me about life...


It's the same for everyone mate, that's why we document EVERYTHING, so we can look back with a puzzled expression and say 'oh, this looks like a NEW requirement...'

Hardest part of the game. Need to be an IT pro and a diplomat!

 

See my Avatar, Jonny.

Brain the size of a planet...

J.