Norman Alexander
Penultimate Amazing
Pay that.
Dear Users… (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people) Part 10
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catsmate
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Indeed. Oh well there's always remote delivery of computer "upgrades".
Did you know it's relatively easy to modify a generic mouse to deliver an electric shock?
catsmate
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All excellent ideas, worthy of the BOFH himself.
Us: "Users. Supplies lines are a mess right now and supplies of everything are limited, especially things like PCs, laptops, phones, printers. Please try to take care of your stuff."
Users: "What's that? I didn't hear you I was too busy spilling coffee on my laptop."
Users: "What's that? I didn't hear you I was too busy spilling coffee on my laptop."
arthwollipot
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One function of my role is to follow up incidents that are placed On Hold. If for some reason we need more information about an incident, we contact them and place the incident On Hold until they reply. This stops the SLA clock so we can't be penalised for waiting for them. We try to contact them again three days later if they haven't replied, then again three days after that. If they still haven't replied three days after the second contact, we resolve the incident with resolution code Caller Unresponsive. These followups are the task of the person on the late shift, which is usually me since I like working 1030 - 1900 and nobody else does.
All this background is to say that one of the most satisfying parts of my job is when I mark Caller Unresponsive on a job with *URGENT!!!* in the title.
All this background is to say that one of the most satisfying parts of my job is when I mark Caller Unresponsive on a job with *URGENT!!!* in the title.
arthwollipot
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They've just given me a new chair!
Oh, this is so much better than the old crappy one. I think I might die in this chair.
Oh, this is so much better than the old crappy one. I think I might die in this chair.
Hellbound
Merchant of Doom
Dear users:
If you already have a ticket submitted for an issue, having additional tickets opened does NOT get your issue resolved faster.
In fact, now I have to spend time (in which I am not working on your issue) to find all the duplicate tickets you’ve opened, link them to the original, and close out the extras.
Not to mention that two different people may now be working your issue at the same time, which can greatly complicate diagnostics and troubleshooting.
Sent from my volcanic island lair using carrier pigeon.
If you already have a ticket submitted for an issue, having additional tickets opened does NOT get your issue resolved faster.
In fact, now I have to spend time (in which I am not working on your issue) to find all the duplicate tickets you’ve opened, link them to the original, and close out the extras.
Not to mention that two different people may now be working your issue at the same time, which can greatly complicate diagnostics and troubleshooting.
Sent from my volcanic island lair using carrier pigeon.
gnome
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Same people that press the call button for the elevator again while waiting.
Blue Mountain
Resident Skeptical Hobbit
Or, worse, they're halfway up the building and waiting for a "down" elevator, but press the "up" call button in hopes it will bring the elevator to them faster. All that does is delay anyone going to the upper floors because now the car has to stop for a passenger who has no intention of getting on.
xterra
So far, so good...
Or walk up to a group of people who are waiting for an elevator—and push the call button, because obviously the people waiting were too stupid to push it.
rdaneel
Illuminator
Then there is the number of times I'm in the basement with a cart and can't use the elevator because it's full of surprised people who couldn't be bothered to see that the arrow was pointing down, not up. Of course, if they hadn't pushed the down button to a floor they're not supposed to go to anyway, the elevator would have just bypassed them on the way down and and picked them up on the way up, getting them where they were going at exactly the same time without wasting mine.
arthwollipot
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Or pushing the button on a pedestrian crossing, then crossing anyway because the road is clear, completely oblivious to the fact that now you've pressed the button, cars have to stop and wait for nothing to happen.
a_unique_person
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
WTF is uplift? Is that a variation of downput, updrop or downup?
It's a when a client species has been "uplifted" to full sentience.
That's reminded me of one of my first jobs at a large company. I remember once having to hunt down someone called "Bob in accounts" as he has an issue raised by the FD because he apparently couldn't send the FD a report, no one in his department was called Bob or Robert or Rod or Rob.. asked for verification of the name got a rather nasty response in effect telling me how stupid I was and he wasn't going to do my job. It wasn't like I could physically walk into the accounts department and ask for Bob as they were in a different building miles away. Spoke to my boss, who explained that the FD was a **** but was the brother-in-law of the MD. I ended up having to email everyone (separately) in the accounts department to track down who it was who was having problems. Of course their name wasn't Bob, I can't remember what their name was but it was something like Neil - i.e. totally different to Bob. And there wasn't a technical problem, it was a Tragicmonkey special the FD wanted a report about something that wasn't in the data, not-Bob had tried to explain to him that they couldn't generate the report because they didn't have the data. But the FD wanted it so someone had to be at fault if he couldn't have it. Thankfully my boss at the time wasn't a complete arse and he did deal with it but I know my name was mud for quite sometime.
Wudang
BOFH
I know a species that could use this. In fact, I'm a member of said species.
arthwollipot
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I missed this. I get this all the time. We provide Premier Support for certain people - usually ministerial staff or the secretariat. These people have a special number to call which goes directly to the Premier Support team. If there is no-one from that team available to answer the call, we get it.
About 95% of the time, when they call they say "Oh hi, this is Jane, Ricky's EA." as that is sufficient ID. I'm sure the people in the Premier Support team know who Jane and Ricky are. They have only about a dozen callers in total. But I have something close to six thousand. I have no idea who Jane and Ricky are.
arthwollipot
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If I had Ultimate Power, I'd stop the capability that users have of logging incidents with us by email. They absolutely never provide any of the real information that we need to fix their problem. It always creates more work for us - we have to email them requesting additional information, they fail to provide it, we email them again to follow up, in a process that I have noted in an earlier post.
I just did a followup to an email that someone sent saying literally "My Chrome is not working". And that was it. That was the entire email. DETAILS PEOPLE! Come on!
I just did a followup to an email that someone sent saying literally "My Chrome is not working". And that was it. That was the entire email. DETAILS PEOPLE! Come on!
Hey - they tried - they could have sent "the internet isn't working"
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