smart people stupid about computers trying to be smart

[kallell.livejournal.com]

I am the highest ranking geek at work. Now this didnt happen to me but was shared with me about one of our coworkers.

We just moved into a new facility today. Now in our previous warehouse the desks where back to back and the users couldnt really see the back of their towers.

Withe the new layouts their desks are in the center of an open area spaced greatly and they walk completely around their workstations.

After we set up the workstations one of the workers was playing with the ethernet wire.

JW= CoWorker with a clue
TK= Boss with a clue
MH= one of these things, is not like the other


JW= What ARE you doing
MH= Im messing around with the wire
TK= umm , why?
MH= Cuz the light blinking . . .
TK&JW It's supposed to!
JW= its showing activity.
MH= Oh

Comments

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

.....*cries*

[byh.livejournal.com]

I would tell him to leave the cable alone and go check one of node switches - light blinking there is way more severe.

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

;-)

Just before I was suddenly made redundant at work (HA!) there were plans afoot to move me (departmental geek, web guru, all round nice person) into a corner of the general office. Much furniture was moved, and the end result was that the desk with the scanner computer on it was suddenly facing towards one of the other workers. The "silly blinking light thinggy on the back of the computer" apparently bothered her. a LOT. She asked me if I would come and make it stop.

So I explained what it meant, and that really other than turning the whole machine off at the powerpoint, there was no way to stop the light blinking. And since that machine is in use for several hours of each work day, there was NO way to stop it blinking. My eventual solution was to stick a post-it note over the top of the LED.

If it bothered her that much, why didn't SHE do that ?

*sigh*