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Dear Users... (A thread for Sysadmin, Technical Support, and Help Desk people)
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alfaniner
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That's sort of how I handle tech questions from my sister. Instead of replying immediately with all sorts of triage questions, I just wait a few hours and she has somehow resolved it by then.
That's a great word, but I don't think I can submit it to the "new and obscure words" thread because it's a foreign word.
quadraginta
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Sure. Sometimes I do want to know the answer though, as it may affect others.
The main thing is that it is weird. I suspect that most of the people fully answering are sitting at a computer, and most of those not doing so are using a phone.
TragicMonkey
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Well, today I had to call my company's general Help Desk. My phone's software forced me to upgrade it this weekend, and as a result one layer of the required security app stopped working so now I can't get work email on my phone. So I called the Help Desk, who are not qualified or expected to help with that but are supposed to transfer callers to the people who can. Apparently the problem sounded just too horrible to contemplate, because the guy simply hung up on me when I explained the problem. I guess I'll try another day. I don't even want work email on my phone, but the company pays me an extra $40 a month if I do have it there.
arthwollipot
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Heh. There are a bunch of reasons that I've hung up on someone, but none of them were deliberate. The latest was when I was explaining to someone how to turn off the wifi on their laptop and reconnect, so of course I was following along as I was explaining it...
Change to VOI internal telephone system, company network goes down, no one can contact the IT department, yes it actually happened in a company with over 20,000 staff. Who would have thought eh?
arthwollipot
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Yep, I've lived through one of those too. We're entirely VOIP, and when working from home using Direct Access. I drop off the corporate network fairly regularly, the last time about five minutes ago - though I don't think it's happened while I was actually on a call.
I had that happen when I had a call scheduled for before work hours on a Monday, except it wasn't a forced update. The other attorney on the call didn't update their phone because it was a known issue with their security system that updates caused it to trip until IT figured out a solution in a day or two. Being new to the system, I updated the app as I went to bed and woke up to take a call that I couldn't get into because all of the call info was in my inaccessible email. I drove to the office and got there for just enough of the call to hear the other attorney throwing me under the bus. My "thanks" was met with silence. We never really got along after that.
TragicMonkey
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I'm really tired of having to explain to people that no, I can't get data out of a database if nobody put that data into the database to begin with. "But but but they need those codes!!!" Okay, then, put those codes in there. Or maybe if you pray hard enough God will do it for you, then I can return the results on the query. "Dear God, please enter the taxonomy codes for a hundred thousand providers, including ones not even with our company, by tomorrow. Thanks! Also update some LOINCs we're missing."
Ah yes the "My job is very, very important...but only in the context of it means other people should stop on a dime to pull miracles out of their asses to support it / make it easier, never in the sense that I should have to work hard at it" mentality. I know it well,
catsmate
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Did you need the roll of carpet?Good news. I actually got the opportunity to do some one-on-one training for this guy tonight.
arthwollipot
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No, but he had some surprising gaps in his knowledge.
And after months of not even thinking about it, I had to tell two T1s today how to use Powershell to publish an App-V app.
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Being asked about the specifics of a fix for a problem I was called out for. No, I was the mug trying to apply sicking plasters to the problem all around midnight, it was your guys who caused the problem and "fixed" it
arthwollipot
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Anyone else her had to manage VoIP using Cisco Unity?
Everyone here agrees that VoIP tasks are the worst.
Everyone here agrees that VoIP tasks are the worst.
alfaniner
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I think CNN is using Cisco Webex for almost all their remote interviews (because the marquee says so) and it looks like a POS. Massive pixellation, constant loss of signal -- they must have signed a low-bid contract or something.
The banes of my existence, in rough order:
1. Windows Distributed File Systems
2. Bitlocker
3. Cisco Unity
catsmate
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arthwollipot
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I... can't really disagree with that list.
For those not in the know, Cisco Unity is one of the worst pieces of software ever to drive a technician to insanity. The process of allocating Lines and Speed Dials is an eldritch nightmare requiring equal parts complex analytical problem solving and repetitive copy-pasting.
I believe my older brother still works for Cisco. I'm going to rag on him so hard next time I see him.
Blue Mountain
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I notice the first two are Microsoft products. However that may say more to the ubiquity of Windows in the business environments than the quality of the software itself.
From what I've seen of Bitlocker, mostly from people posting comments about it, it's actually well designed and fit for its purpose, namely providing a solid encryption environment for Windows. Please feel free to correct me on this!
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