Behold, The Starfish With Delusions Of Becoming A Network Admin!

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

User: "Instead of making us call you and sit on hold, you people should start sending e-mails to us when the network goes down!"

Comments

[crankyholly.livejournal.com]

"And if the network is down, you would recieve your email exactly how?"

I love the human race.

[ezerick.livejournal.com]

OT, icon love!!

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

ah! I remember that webcomic, but I can't remember the address, do you (or anyone) have a url to it?

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

Orneryboy (http://www.orneryboy.com/). My husband has full set of Orneryboy icons :)

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

Please tell your husband that he doth rock.

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

I'll do that :)

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

*blink*blink*

Amazing.

[celyste.livejournal.com]

I had one lady that wanted us to personally phone everyone when things crashed. I'm really sure she'd be impressed with her phone ringing at 3am "Hi ma'am! Sorry to bother you, but just wanted to let you know that we're doing maintenance now and you won't be online."

[kallell.livejournal.com]

you should!

[usekh.livejournal.com]

I do graveyard shift, and my main job is to answer all the emails that come in. One amazingly rude guy DEMANDED we call him immediately upon getting his email.

It was 4 in the morning, how tempted was I? :)

[kallell.livejournal.com]

you SO should

[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

oh dear god please tell me they didnt say that

"we do, you must just not be checking your e-mails when our system is down...what a coincidence"

[jecook]

In that case, we should also fix network problem before they happen!

And while we are at it, Let's automatically configure the magic billing/administration system to give everyone a free credit when it does go down, even if it's 3 am local time and the only people that are using it are the people looking for gay necrophiliac midget clown porn.

Sorry. I'm getting the last of the "angry bitter admin" out of my system before my vacation...

[taleya.livejournal.com]

mmm. Happy little stiffs they are, too...

[benatwork.livejournal.com]

Or they, too, work graveyard shift and are SSHed into their home server so they can browse while at work, since their job consists of sitting on their asses for eight hours twiddling their thumbs while a firewall blocks the interesting websites.

Y'know, in theory. ;)

[xdownfornowx.livejournal.com]

how do you not tell that person they a fucking idiot?

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

It actually happened a few days ago. J brought me an Outlook case that reminded me of it.

Remember the ongoing issue we're having, with the timeouts and "page cannot be displayed" errors with a particular web-based app?

A user told me that we should be sending out emails to the FSF as a whole whenever there are network issues, *including the email servers*.

Re: Heh...

[normal1.livejournal.com]

and the ocassional heart attack.. for me its just been grey hairs and a lot of stress but yeah..

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

I've heard that so many times... often coupled with "Well, I don't care if the network is down, FIX MY EMAIL!"