True tales of IT life: useless users, hapless bosses, clueless vendors and adventures in the IT trenches. Compiled over the years from the frontlines.
Maybe fish just needs better bladder control.
Where the heck is CTRL-Z?
Flies, honey, vinegar.
Jeez, working backwards usually saves troubleshooting time.
Adjust this story for inflation.
And now our printer is just like all the others.
The old run-around pays off.
The only problem is that users aren’t perfect.
Really, there ought to be a law.
Sometimes it’s all just fun and games.
Shouldn’t plumbing and electrical systems be kept separate?
And another manager who’s unclear on the concept.
And I helped!
That’s one heck of a long emergency.
It’s just her way of saying thanks.
Watt’s it all about?
Oh, before I leave, what’s GNU?
Unclear on that whole ‘garbage in’ concept.
It really could have been much worse.
And are you sure that that metaphorical pipe is draining FLOODwater?
The real reason the dot-com bubble burst?
Screen blank, nobody home.
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Black boxes rarely bear good news.
The buckle stops here.
Or, ‘There and back again.’
We’re all adults here, right?
Everyone, be more like Chris, except for the exceptionally tardy part.
Well, it would be nice to have the must-haves.
You have to admit the client was paying attention.
Is he aware it’s not his own personal server?
Now his angry emails take forever to get here.
OTOH, a sticky on user’s monitor with nothing on it but his name won’t give anything away.
Everyone’s a comedian.
Remember: Safety first.
Wait, how long have office printers been a thing?
Someone’s having an identity crisis.
But we bet they’ll find a way to get that 8 cents back.
Maybe he’s just toner deaf.
If an ad is served in the forest with no one around …
That was quite a display.
Software takes everything so literally.
You can fool some of the technophobes some of the time …
Just set it to: ‘Archive anything sent before I was born.’
But how long was this guy able to avoid computers?
If a phone won’t work after drowning it, that might not be a network issue.
This is a truly iconic tale.
You can’t escape your destiny, summer job edition.
Shall we guess how many of those passwords were ‘123456’?
A: Probably reads more manuals.
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