bored @ work thread

maxEmus · 07-28-2003

Only PW here if ur at worked an bored outta ur mind!

this is a pointless thread, but its kinda like a survey to see who and how many ppl go on this site when they are at work.

Only post here if ur not having fun at work either!

if ur having fun, its not really called work is it?

PLS let the PWing begin

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TeLLy · 07-28-2003

I hate my end users. Why are they giving the powerful new Dell computers and jobs requiring that kind of horsepower to people who don't know how to bloody open their email in outlook?!?!!! Where does my company find these morons???!?!!??GGGGRRRRRRR........

It's like giving a Murcielago to a G1 driver.

TeLLy · 07-28-2003

p.s. I PW on here cos www.clubel.ca is now classified porn by my work and I am firewalled now for trying to access the very site I administer. I kind of shot myself in the foot here, cos I was one of the ones how said "Let's not censor anything ClubEL guys, freedom of speech....etc etc.etc.". Now look, all the swearing and me posting nekkid pix got me blocked.

MSoft · 07-28-2003

I work for lawyers, IT consulting, yah, end users are all idiots.

PS: Yes, I'm bored today too.

CUE2k1 · 07-28-2003

I'm bored as always... the only time I post here is when I'm at work... well, about 99.9999% of the time.
And yes Telly, end users SUCK ARSE!
Cue - "Click on start..."
end user - "start, start.... where's the start button?"
Cue- " You've been using your computer at work for 15 years and you still don't know where the start button is??" W T F???

TeLLy · 07-28-2003

TeLLy: "OK please restart your PC"
<2 seconds>
User: "OK done"
TeLLy: "Already? Did you turn it off then back on?"
User "yeah, the screen went black then windows came right back on"
TeLLy: <rubs temples in agony> "Wait a second, how were you turning it off and on?"
User "I was pushing the little button under the screen that had the symbol on it"
TeLLy "You mean that little circle symbol with the vertical line in it?"
User: "Yes that's what I do every day to shut down my computer"
TeLLy: "That's the monitor...you've been leaving your computer on all night every night, 24/7 and you have simply been turning off the monitor".
User: "But the monitor IS the computer right?"
TeLLy: <vomits violently in frustration>

MSoft · 07-28-2003

To IT people, the computer is the computer.

To end users, the computer is the "hard drive". The monitor is the "screen".

I find often I have to ask ppl, are you using a monitor, i.e., like a TV? Or are you using a flat screen, the thin kind. (this got complicated ever since monitors came with flat screens)

gelshmoff · 07-28-2003

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TeLLy: <vomits violently in frustration>

Hahaha.

I'm not that bored. I work for a very busy attorney doing estate planning and estate administration. I come here to "take breaks" since I don't smoke. I wish I was bored at work. There's always a fire to put out here. It gets kinda frustrating always having more to do than time to do it.

TeLLy · 07-28-2003

I find myself in the following situations a lot:

1) User can't get into our ecommerce site
Reasons:
- user does not have an internet connection on PC
- user has a terminal and not a PC
- user trying to log into wrong website (our website is Eway.ca, and we get a lot of people trying to log into Ebay)
- user can't remember password
- user does not have an account

2) User cannot log into our local network
Reasons:
- user does not know password
- user does not know login ID
- user had account suspended due to gross misuse
- user had just been fired (that's actually only happened 2x)

3) User's PC not working
Reasons:
- user had unplugged PC's power supply in order to plug in radio/coffeemaker/fan/space heater
- user left floppy in the floppy drive
- user hit space/enter so hard that the key stuck
- user spilled coffee in the laptop, denies it....gets busted when the keyboard is pulled out and connectors are saturated in Timmy's double-double

maxEmus · 07-28-2003

wow i didnt know there were alotta IT's here.

me im just on the computer all day data entering and shit. i think i may be an end user, but i still know more then these chumps using their new dell PC's and panasonic toughbooks. im stuck running win 98 on a P1. and all they use it for is word. why use a p4 for word!

but still. . .
i love working for the City of Tdot

maxEmus · 07-28-2003

since there are a lotta ppl at work. give some ICQ or msn contacts so we can waste more time online.

carta_n@hotmail is mine for those who care.

CUE2k1 · 07-28-2003

I had ICQ on my other PC at my old department, however this new department I'm in suxx... we're stuck behind a firewall, better yet... a BANK's firewall.

CUE2k1 · 07-28-2003

Quote:

Originally posted by MSoft
To IT people, the computer is the computer.

To end users, the computer is the "hard drive". The monitor is the "screen".

Yeah, I hate that? I got confused before when they first called the CPU a hard drive.

FlippedOut · 07-28-2003

dude, you mean i've just been turning off my monitor??? dang.. haha.. LMAO... just kidding...
im at work and im bored at the same time...

Hachiman · 07-28-2003

Quote:

Originally posted by TeLLy
I hate my end users. Why are they giving the powerful new Dell computers and jobs requiring that kind of horsepower to people who don't know how to bloody open their email in outlook?!?!!! Where does my company find these morons???!?!!??GGGGRRRRRRR........

It's like giving a Murcielago to a G1 driver.

You work at Dell too? That's crazy!

TeLLy · 07-28-2003

That's just neophytes trying to adopt PC buzzwords and acronyms. Stupid noobies.

Quote:

Yeah, I hate that? I got confused before when they first called the CPU a hard drive.

TeLLy · 07-28-2003

Quote:

Originally posted by Hachiman
You work at Dell too? That's crazy!

No, I work at Corporate Express. Our contract is with Dell for all new PC's we bring in.

Hachiman · 07-28-2003

I used to do Techsupport for Epson and yeah, Enduser's need to be taken out in the middle of the street and beaten w/ there equipment.

TeLLy · 07-28-2003

Why damage valuable equipment like that? Beat them with a steel rod or something.

Hachiman · 07-28-2003

Quote:

Originally posted by TeLLy
No, I work at Corporate Express. Our contract is with Dell for all new PC's we bring in.

oh I see. Dell endusers are pretty lame.

BlueTroll · 07-31-2003

hahaha.... this is a funny thread..... ya i didn't know there were soo many IT's..... thatz coools then..... its funny at the amount of ppl who are computer illiterate......

edit: and the amount of ppl at york taking IT but have absolutely no computer hardware of software background.... man they don't even know how to install RAM!

TeLLy · 07-31-2003

If I were a porn star, I'd call myself Johnny Ram. And my patented position would be the Hard Drive. No floppy jokes please.

nme3 · 07-31-2003

haha 3 1/2 inch floppy, opps no floppy jokes right.

"press any key to continue"
"any key, wheres the any key?"

TeLLy · 07-31-2003

<TAB> "whew this is hard....now where's that waiter with my Tab?"

CUE2k1 · 07-31-2003

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Originally posted by nme3
haha 3 1/2 inch floppy, opps no floppy jokes right.

just couldn't resist could you??? hehehe

maxEmus · 07-31-2003

you guys are jokers!