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Why do some people not understand "Cause and Effect"?

This guy called into the helpdesk saying that he can't log into his terminal. They sent it over to me. I talk to him for a bit. I get out of him that "someone was messing with the wires" a little bit ago and that's when this all started.

"Did you . . . by chance . . . Check to see that the wires were in securely after they messed with them?" "no . . ."

Had him check the wires. Low and behold it suddenly started working. Yeesh if someone was messing with the wires right before something suddenly stopped working . . . Wouldn't common sense say that it's something that they did?

This is what we call job security. So long as people need someone to think for them, I'll be employed.

EDIT - Scary. I just told this story to one of my coworkers when he got back from lunch. What he said "Don't these people understand cause and effect?" Scary when you start to think just like your coworkers . . .