Originally Posted By SuzieQ I confess I no longer live in Southern California. I confess I need to live in the Bay Area due to the dot.com industry. I confess the only thing I miss about living in So. Cal. is the beach/ocean.
Originally Posted By LPFan22 ~~~I confess the only thing I miss about living in So. Cal. is the beach/ocean.~~~ I confess that's what I miss about living in the Bay Area, lol. I totally miss driving through the Santa Cruz Mountains and walking along Sea Cliff Beach among others. Save me some corn chowder!
Originally Posted By wendebird >>I confess I have never seen an episode of American Idol.<< I confess the same thing Miss Candice!
Originally Posted By wendebird >>But Q "It never rains in southern California"<< It pours, man it pours!
Originally Posted By avromark I confess I like Pit Pony, Wind at my Back, Road To Avonlea and other period shows.
Originally Posted By alexbook I confess that I woke up this morning with a scratch on my nose. I think my cat must tried to wake me up for a early breakfast. I don't know how I slept through it!
Originally Posted By goodgirl I confess that last week I won a drawing at a meeting we had. A huge bag of candy. And I've been good all week...only one piece a day...until....this afternoon.
Originally Posted By avromark I confess I do not like giving the "This is your IT department and this is what we do" presentation whenever it is my turn. I confess I always secretly get frustrated at those users who claim our system is broken because they cannot use "anna" as the password. Password policy is simple, 9 characters with password complexity. Is anna 9 characters? Does anna have a mix of smallcase and capital letters? Does anna have at least 1 number? Well that's why you have to pick a different password. When they do realize it, why do they keep trying to alternate between 2 passwords. No you cannot use the same password you did last month, the system policy is universal, I cannot change it just for you. You must change your password monthly, you cannot use the same password you did until at soonest the 13th month. Everyone else can do it, why can't you? Also why do we even have to do help desk? Why can't we just maintain servers? Why is help desk (phone one is "offshore") never able to help any users? I confess I don't love users who ask why they can't log into different LAN's, well if you're in Marketing, do you really need access to Finance?
Originally Posted By alexbook LOL! I confess that I sometimes think I was happier before I left computers for retail, but that avromark has just reminded me that no, actually I was pretty miserable. But, avromark, why do you only get "secretly" frustrated? I say, let 'em have it!
Originally Posted By gaydsnywitch I confess I totally understand how avromark feels and have to add why is the IT department the only people who can change the toner cartridge in the fax machine.
Originally Posted By avromark Since i'm junior man on the totem pole, as well now we're outsourced. In my IT job I work for 1 client, but through an outsourcing firm (this save's them what a buck, but reduces my pay to under 36 an hour) I get frustrated with outsourcing, the outsourcing company makes the money and the employees get little benefits compared to internal, get Also out of over a thousand users, it's the same 20 that have the same problems. Why can't users just like learn to not ask the same question every day for a week. "Hi, this is Sam in The Widget Department, I called Help Desk and I can't understand what they're saying are they recent to Canada? I have a problem with.." "Could I just interupt you for a second please? I'm sorry i'm not allowed to tell you Help Desk has been located in India for over a year which is why I now deal with you instead of just servers and making sure things just work. Let me guess you want to know how to do a mail merge" "How did you know?" "I'm a genius, anyways this is how you do it (etc,)
Originally Posted By avromark At least I don't do toner's Thats for non admins to do, although I thought sys admin meant you maintained the network not the users...
Originally Posted By SuzieQ I confess I have no idea why you folks think only IT people know how to change toner cartridges! Shame on you. It's the secretaries who have to know how to to that and un-jam every machine known to man. ) <-- secretary turned outside auditor who found that skill very useful when working at other companies
Originally Posted By alexbook >>I thought sys admin meant you maintained the network not the users...<< Nope. And don't think it's just 'cause you're junior. The senior sysadmins can get just as frustrated dealing with the junior sysadmins' problems as the junior sysadmins get when dealing with the users' problems. You're right, though, that it seems like it's always the same few users who have/cause the most problems. The good news is that it's just your job, not your life. Remember to unplug yourself sometimes.
Originally Posted By avromark Again it depends where you work, in my IT job one site is a cubicle farm lol, the other is nice with knowledgeable people (and it's the site in hick country)
Originally Posted By gaydsnywitch I confess that I never said that IT are the only people who KNOW how to change toners, just that we (at least at my company) are the only ones who actually do.
Originally Posted By idleHands I confess to tormenting TDG way too much last night. I agreed with the Hitler result from his Leader test, and blamed his boiled custard addiction. But seeing as how I'm Saddam Hussein and The Godfather, I also confess to enjoying every single minute of it! 8^D
Originally Posted By friendofdd I confess I'm impressed by the abilities of IT people. They tend to be boring conversationalists, but, otherwise are impressive.
Originally Posted By alexbook I confess that I REALLY HATE DRIVING!!!! It's a good thing I don't have to do any more of it till Monday.
