So I come in to work this morning . . .

[Damon]

Our receptionists are like that, I got a call from them the other morning,

"the phones won't work"
"?? your calling me on them??"
"no, on the computer"
"oh what's happening?"
"it won't let me type"
"ah? I'll come and have a look" (I've learned it's easier and faster to just go and look for myself)

when I get down stairs she brings up a window in the phone console program and tries to type in a number to bring up an extension and nothing happens, so I reach past her and turn the num lock on and tell her to try again, and holy shit it works! this is about the 3rd time I've had to do the same thing for them.

Apparently computer illiterate people become receptionists

[WRT]

Well, I've heard from her again now. The clients email address she has used "lots of times" suddenly gets rejected. Might have something to do with her now spelling the name with an 'O', instead of an 'A'. That's right, 'O' for "Oh dear".

[RantyDave]

i get similar stuff at my work

At work? Ha! Think yourself lucky. Pick up a partner, kids, etc. then you get work, home, inlaws, sister in law in another country, my family overseas, kids mates' families, cousins of inlaws, kids creche, neighbours ... every bugger comes crawling out the woodwork with a fuxx0r3d HP/Gateway/Dell/Shitbox wondering why it's making a funny noise, or doesn't print, or wanting to know what skype does or (my favourite) "how do we get the Internet".

When this does happen, three words that will save your life: "Buy a mac". Or "Buy a fucking mac" depending on who you're talking to and how annoyed you are already.

I shit you not, saved my life.

Dave

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

Oh it's nice to be the exception to the rule LOL.

[Guitana]

[Personal info deleted- ixion]
Be careful bagging workmates if someone sees this you could have a PG on your hands!!!

[WRT]

She is a fictional character. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. I wasnt there, and didnt see anything - and neither did you.

YOU CANT PROVE A THING!

Oh, and it wasnt me. Just in case you were asking.

[Grub]

Yes , I’ve fixed it. And what have I fixed? All off it. Everything. Cause it was all broke, remember?

I can definately sympathise. This morning's for us was from 7 people, all with the same problem (no eyes, no brain)...

"I can't log into the network" / "Your network has broken" / "You've wrecked my PC"/ etc etc
"Have you changed your password?"
"nope"
"What username are you using?"
"It says XXXXX but it keeps giving me an error. I'm using the right password, I've entered it 5 times"
"Uh that's my login, we ran some updates on your machine last night"
"Oh"
"So what's your login?"
"I don't know, I never have to type it"
"You've been here 5yrs and don't know your login?"
"Why can't I use this one and just put my password in, what have you guys done?"

...... arrrrrggghhhhh ......

We'll try not to rant or get excited about ...
"So , let me test it for you now, what is your password?"
"It's 'XXXXX', I've always had the same one"

...... arrrrrggghhhhh ......

[WRT]

"So what's your login?"
"I don't know, I never have to type it"
"You've been here 5yrs and don't know your login?"

Yup, I get that one from time to time too . . .

[jrandom]

The elitist ideas of IT types who forget that they're supposed to be support staff pisses me off.

Try to comprehend that the $600/hour accountant doesn't give a flying fuck which button he needs to push, because his brain is full to bursting with the real work he's doing, and it's both easier and more economical to summon someone from the tech department to sort out whatever's going on, even if the solution turns out to be trivial.

And the poor blonde receptionist who doesn't know how to enter her username and password may not have ever been told about the concept of 'usernames' as well as 'passwords'. Give her a fucking break.

IT monkeys should learn their place and start earning their wage. The attitude I've seen from some of them would get a Micky D's burger-flipper fired within a day.

[Damon]

I've only been in IT for a short time so i would hardly call myself elitist

all the jobs i've had that require computer use have asked for my computer knowledge when i applied for the job, if you bullshit your way into a job and then don't know what "replace toner" means then you deserve the mocking you get.

[Coyote]

You should join the police

[Alice]

Can't say I agree with some of the put downs from you lot, 2 sides to every story and all that, ........like you never fuck up and get pissed off at yourself and the world ! oh to be perr-fect,

but you may enjoy what Albert Einstein had to say once many years ago,

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"

[N4CR]

the elitist ideas of it types who forget that they're supposed to be support staff pisses me off.

real work he's doing,

and the poor blonde receptionist who doesn't know how to enter her username and password may not have ever been told about the concept of 'usernames' as well as 'passwords'. give her a ****ing break.

when they do it about 5 times in a week after being explained each time its pure ****in stupidity plain and simple.

real work, yeah right. ****in bean counters

[Wasp]

You should join the police

ahahahahah excellent

[Guitana]

Is she a hottie if so you should shut your mouth and appreciate her beauty!!!
Who cares if she fucks up as long as she picks up pencils in front of you on a regular basis!!!
More tolerance in the workplace please you never know she might beat you up if she overhears you bagging her in the lunch room!!!!