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[mystii.livejournal.com]

Phrase that strikes fear into the heart of any tech: "oops!"

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[usekh.livejournal.com]

*snickers*Although my dreaded one is "I had a friend around to fix my computer and..."

[revchris.livejournal.com]

Or, "I wanted to see what was inside of...."

[artela.livejournal.com]

or "what happens if I push this...?"

[krrayn.livejournal.com]

"Hold on, let me try something..."
"I'm not a computer guru, can you talk to my IT guy?"
"I'm (so-n-so), and I don't know your program, but I know a bit about computers so I'm sort of the IT guy for the office..."

[wyrdrune.livejournal.com]

or "I didn't touch anything..."

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Also the word no experienced tech will ever utter in front of users. = )

[torkell]

No, the one no experienced tech will utter in front of users but will scream out when hidden in the server cupboard is "WTF?"

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're gonna go that way there's lots of 'em, including especially, "PEBKAC," which I just had to say to someone who said her files were "mysteriously disappearing" from their server space. Hon, if those files disappeared, it's because someone deleted them and didn't back them up anywhere; files don't just vanish on their own.

[torkell]

Or (and for once I'm actually hoping this happened, because it means that I didn't forget to ftp the files to the server) the server ate the files for reasons known only to itself.

Or the hard disk woke up one morning, and went "I know! I'll randomly scribble nonsense all over my platters! See how you like that, luser!" (BTDT, more than once. All hail backups)

[shadowkat01.livejournal.com]

"Well I'm a network administrator and I...."
"Well my IT guy at work said..."
"AOL said..."
"It just did it all by itself..."
"Well why can't I?..."

[revchris.livejournal.com]

But the manual says....

[kalium.livejournal.com]

"oops" is a lot scarier when said by a sysadmin, or worse, a netadmin.

Believe me, I've heard it. All I could do was assume a look of stark terror.

[jecook]

Oh hell yeah.

my departed boss uttered a similar phrase to me one night when he was trying to add space to the PDC's RAID. He ended up wiping the old raid out in his attempt to backout the upgrade process.

I got off the phone and just about died from laughing, except I then realized that all my timecards were on that RAID, along with all the HR data, and basically everything that ran the company. that sobered me up fast. If it was another company, then I would have died laughing.

[microchip.livejournal.com]

Heh, I did post "It's effect is doubled when another techie says "oops!", and goes wide-eyed in horror.", but as it's already here... *laugh*

I know that terror. It's a fear that hits the deepest part of your soul, as you realise you're going to be weeks fixing a tiny little "oops!"...

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

"um, it's on fire!"

[jecook]

Heh. that phrase makes me go "COOL!!!" instead of stark terror...

[major-error.livejournal.com]

"...Do you have a minute..."

usually turns into a multi-day wild goose chase...

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

That and "I have an easy/quick question for you"

If it were easy and or quick you wouldn't be calling me. Well, hopefully. We do have some people working level 1 in my company that shouldn't be...

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

What does *THIS* button do?

[microchip.livejournal.com]

Quality icon!

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

feel free to gank - got it from someone else who did not credit it back :)

[taleya.livejournal.com]

"my grandkids/son/small purple sheep was playing with my computer and..."

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

"Is email broken?"

[knittinggoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh Jesus.
I work at a college, and I've been on shift the last two times the imap server has gone down. Nothing like getting three "is email working?" calls in a row, while other people are waiting at the desk in person to ask me the very same question.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

"Oh, and while I have you here / on the line..."

[knittinggoddess.livejournal.com]

"And I have another question. Hopefully it's not a big one."