(xposted) oh hell, it's going to be one of those days

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

One of those days that lead me to believe that the Amish might actually have something there...

get to work,
SOMETHING is wrong with all the classroom virtual machines
Email server is down.

and i'm greeted this morning by a work order that says simply:
Needs new IP address for laptop. Needs before 11:00.
that's THE ENTIRE FREAKIN WORK ORDER.*

O_o

..... maybe they aren't happy with the ip address they have? perhaps they used that one all up and it's getting too hot so now they need another one? maybe they would like one that has their birthday in it?
i have to check to see if we charge extra for "personalized" ip addresses. if it doesn't cost too much i wanna get 10.4.20.75

Valis
(i wonder if you have to renew it every year...)
(now i have to go around searching for what the ACTUAL PROBLEM is... i bet you a million gazilion dollars it has nothing to do with an ip address.)
*there's a reason we call it the "helplessdesk"

Comments

[inahandbasket]

Reminds me of the lady who ended up with extension x3566, and threw a hissy fit because it meant her fax would be x3666.
Obviously I didn't change it for her.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

this place would fall apart if i started doing what the work orders said instead of actually fixing the problem, which is generally totally unrelated to what the work order actually says...

[kenbrody.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should do what the work order says. Either they'll write better work orders or the place will fall apart. Either way, problem solved.

[codecattx.livejournal.com]

Now see. . .

When faced with that, I would reverse them - her fax line could be x3566 and her extension would become x3666.

But I am just evil that way.

[inahandbasket]

can't due to the way the PRI's are configed.
but don't think I wasn't tempted anyway.

[kenbrody.livejournal.com]

Umm... "Here you go. It's 127.0.0.1".

[kensaro.livejournal.com]

Funny, that's what I always advocate telling them.

[crywolf.livejournal.com]

It's a token ring network. If you want a new IP, you need to bring us the token with the old IP, so we can exchange it.

(Vaguely stolen from Dilbert)