True tales of IT life: useless users, hapless bosses, clueless vendors and adventures in the IT trenches. Compiled over the years from the frontlines.
It’s all so deterministic.
But they certainly clarified exactly what they wanted.
At least, not more than once.
It all seems so familiar.
We’re refraining from lots of bad puns in this headline!
It could take you a long time to cool off.
Let’s give her points for at least suspecting there might be a better way.
When you inherited that problem, did you think you were supposed to fix it?
A simple visit to the office goes very wrong.
If you can’t remember asking for this …
Not to mention those tiny keyboards …
Or she was just having a bad-brain day.
Should have gone on spring break.
We just wanted to see if anyone was paying attention.
We would say, ‘Unclear on the concept,’ but that’s too generous.
There’s a hole in the boss’s cost-savings plan.
It can be so hard to let go.
In which case, the solution is not.
A backup generator apparently should provide some backup work.
And you had done such a good job.
Oh, yes, we’ve all been there and done that.
This fish needs a wake-up call.
Some good deeds are not punished.
You have more faith in computers than you should.
How about using ‘IHate(TechBehemoth)’ for that new email address?
… saves nine, but too late wastes eight?
Or maybe she’s a one-name entity, like Cher.
The years just roll on by.
Because, really, what were the chances?
He just wanted to be ahead of his time.
But his initial doubt was understandable.
‘Eeny-meeny’ also works.
And we really trust manhole covers.
The things you can discover when people leave their jobs.
The logic of upper management baffles once again.
Life in the gutter.
They’re redefining ‘power user.’
No, no — that’s what the cup holder is for!
Just not with the hardware.
Why challenge a giant?
Though it might take a while.
And apparently it doesn’t spark joy.
You never know when something might come in handy.
When ‘Reply All’ isn’t embarrassing enough.
A folder by any other name would be less confusing.
Some support is more basic than others.
Let’s start at the beginning.
Few problems are so easily identified.
Sometimes it takes two to make a problem.
Maybe she should check her dictionary again.
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