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Cont: Dear Users… (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people) Part 11

catsmate said:
Are you one of the hundred?
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This is the part where I was obliquely mentioned:

The payments varied from about $9 to more than $4,000, with the average of more than $630.
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(how can I put this) I'm pretty sure there was only one person who was owed more than $4k.

I have now been quite satisfactorily reimbursed. I'm going to buy myself a PS5 and some new clothes.
 
catsmate said:
I favour drawing up a quitable worded legal disclaimer, dumping all responsibility and costs on them, and requiring it to be signed and witnessed.
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You are about 10 years behind where we are with that. It's been standard as part of employee onboarding for about that long. Hasn't stopped us having the same problems over and over again...
 
Norman Alexander said:
...why does a PS5 need new clothes??
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Apparently, "cooked" is the latest technical term du jour.

My headset was cooked. Client has a cooked laptop. This monitor is cooked.
 
arthwollipot said:
Apparently, "cooked" is the latest technical term du jour.

My headset was cooked. Client has a cooked laptop. This monitor is cooked.
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Hah! Fond memories...

The tech guys had given me a 'state of the art' 386 to be my desktop machine in Woomera.

I had quipped: "This thing is wonderful, I'm surprised that it doesn't make coffee." Or some such silliness.

Imagine my surprise when I came to work on a later Monday, to find that my monitor had been moved to one side, and there was a bubbling glass pot of coffee sitting on my computer...

... The tech guys had been replacing a series of network cards that were overheating and failing, and decided to put as many of them as possible into a case for me to make a PC coffee warmer.

It would be fair to say that I was gobsmacked.
 
novaphile said:
Hah! Fond memories...

The tech guys had given me a 'state of the art' 386 to be my desktop machine in Woomera.

I had quipped: "This thing is wonderful, I'm surprised that it doesn't make coffee." Or some such silliness.

Imagine my surprise when I came to work on a later Monday, to find that my monitor had been moved to one side, and there was a bubbling glass pot of coffee sitting on my computer...

... The tech guys had been replacing a series of network cards that were overheating and failing, and decided to put as many of them as possible into a case for me to make a PC coffee warmer.

It would be fair to say that I was gobsmacked.
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https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100...aec857a4a729362a4ae80c254bc&afSmartRedirect=y
 
zooterkin said:
I'm guessing he's the one who's owed the most.
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arthwollipot said:
This is the part where I was obliquely mentioned:

(how can I put this) I'm pretty sure there was only one person who was owed more than $4k.

I have now been quite satisfactorily reimbursed. I'm going to buy myself a PS5 and some new clothes.
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I claim my £5. :)
 
Norman Alexander said:
Or senior surgeons in major hospitals... Strangely, these people have considerable influence in hospital Board meetings. ;) What they want, they usually get. And ours wanted to use their (latest-model, titanium-isotope frame, nuclear-powered) personal iPhones on our corporate network. This, after demanding to be able use USB's to take patient data to their consulting rooms...and losing them.

They have been a nightmare for patient data security sometimes...
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Oft repeated punchline: That's God. He thinks he's a surgeon.
 
Trebuchet said:
Oft repeated punchline: That's God. He thinks he's a surgeon.
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I've worked in healthcare for a while now, with surgeons and OR staff for a good stretch of that, and I have to say this stereotype is just meanspirited and inaccurate. It's anesthesiologists who are the swollen-headed jerk-lords. Surgeons are humble by comparison.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I've worked in healthcare for a while now, with surgeons and OR staff for a good stretch of that, and I have to say this stereotype is just meanspirited and inaccurate. It's anesthesiologists who are the swollen-headed jerk-lords. Surgeons are humble by comparison.
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Here in Oz it appears to be the anesthesiologists who earn the most too.
 
Norman Alexander said:
You are about 10 years behind where we are with that. It's been standard as part of employee onboarding for about that long. Hasn't stopped us having the same problems over and over again...
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True, that'sa general requirement. I preferred (when I did such stuff) to bring it home to the idiot in queston,specifically.

Also 'quitable' should have been 'suitable'.
 
arthwollipot said:
Apparently, "cooked" is the latest technical term du jour.

My headset was cooked. Client has a cooked laptop. This monitor is cooked.
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I haven't seen a truly cooked notebook for years, not since Li battery got safer.....
 
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