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techrecoveryOne summer, I worked for a local company doing data entry, but slowly slid into doing all their computer-related support. Never again.
But the winner has to be the folks who've taken over the website. I designed it with a graphical navigation bar - BIG MISTAKE. I *cannot* explain to the people who now update the site that the nav bar is made of pictures. They do not get it. They keep changing the HTML code and breaking the image links because they think changing "img src=programs.gif" to "img src=events.gif" will change what the nav bar says. They even went so far as to open a GIF file in Notepad to try to edit the text on it! IT'S. A. PICTURE. OF. THE. WORD. ARG!!!
- Every computer in the office is connected to its own UPS - except the server.
- Only one machine in the entire office has a CD-RW, and it lives in a closet.
- They were too cheap to get machines with more than 128MB of RAM, yet they attempt to run Windows XP Pro and then ask me why they run so slowly.
- One lady called me in to help her *make a new folder*.
- Many of the computers don't even have Service Pack 1. When I pointed this out to their supposed "tech person", she didn't even know what SP1 was.
- They cannot figure out how to delete their own email.
- All the computers have their entire C: drives shared. With write permission.
But the winner has to be the folks who've taken over the website. I designed it with a graphical navigation bar - BIG MISTAKE. I *cannot* explain to the people who now update the site that the nav bar is made of pictures. They do not get it. They keep changing the HTML code and breaking the image links because they think changing "img src=programs.gif" to "img src=events.gif" will change what the nav bar says. They even went so far as to open a GIF file in Notepad to try to edit the text on it! IT'S. A. PICTURE. OF. THE. WORD. ARG!!!
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Date: 2005-01-12 08:47 pm (UTC)This all reminds me of many moons ago, when I was an intern for a five-person office, and they put in the network, and I had to explain what 'conventional memory' was, and why there wasn't any left after they loaded LanTastic.
Gawd.
Never again.
Date: 2005-01-13 02:32 am (UTC)