Memo to Guy in Coffee Shop or Why I Hate My Uniform

[polarbee.livejournal.com]

1) Look, I'm trying to sit here, enjoy my tea and bread, and do a little bit of catching up on the world before I have to go to work. Trying to strike up lame conversations about my workplace and asking me tech questions every time you come in is getting tedious. I sit in the backroom to avoid people this early in the morning. Particularly people like you who keep trying to talk to me and play with their cell phone's ring tones. Go away.

2) I know you're either married or dating someone. These repeated attempts at conversation are beginning to get creepy. Yes, I'm a female tech. Take your freaky fantasies elsewhere.

3) Politely responding to you before going back to what I was doing has moved to pretending not to hear you. I shall very quickly proceed to something far nastier, like telling my much-larger-than-you firefighter husband that you are bugging me. I really do recommend you leave me alone.


Any other techs out there who have to wear work shirts that proclaim their place of business and then get pestered with questions when they are off work? I hate that so much!

Oy vey.

[jecook]

So Monday I get a rush order for a new employee. Granted, at this stage we still don't have a "new user" form (which shall be written shortly, I think.)

The IT department bends over backwards, getting the domain account created within an hour, and the mail account by end of business, and we help the new user out tuesday with performing a few config tasks on his machine (seeing as I was with the rest of the department at HQ in a meeting)

Today, I get the last problem solved and finish configuring his profile for good measure.

I just get finished when I get the word: he's taken another offer and is leaving.


If It were not for the fact that I'm finding this funnny, I'd be wanting to shoot myself. ::headdesk::

Off topic recommendation

[sketchydave.livejournal.com]

( I'm looking for a recommendation from my fellow techs... )

A little off-topic

[harry-whodunnit.livejournal.com]

I get bored at work. No, really. I do. And those poor unsuspecting fools running the call centre gave me unrestricted access to MS Paint and Google image search. The result is a series of vaguely tech support-related cut 'n' paste comics ( under the cut )

This is going to be fun...

[phierce921.livejournal.com]

So my first day on the job I need to fill out some information for HR. So I am directed to a workstation of a girl who has left for the day and we notice she locked her workstation. So the person who is going to log me into the site so I can fill out forms calls the receptionist:

Co-worker: Can you get on her cell, we need her password so we can log her off.
Receptionist: Oh, her password is on the yellow notepad.

and sure enough, there is a yellow notepad with not only her network logon, but the logon to every system they have, with instructions on how to access them.

I can tell my job as System Administrator is going to be fun.

So my first "real" business was pulling her aside, making her shred the paper, change all her passwords and lectured her on security.

Other than that I am LOVING this new job, Coming from a helpdesk to being *THE* SA is great. I get pretty much 100% control over how things will be ran. The power may very well rush to my head so fast it may just pop.