IT level expert!

It has happened… I mean finally happened! I have heard this has happened to others before, but it was always a friend of my girlfriends cousin type thing.

A user called today and wanted to reset their password and of course needed help in doing so. Nothing out of the ordinary there, but what happened the next got me!

I asked for his username and he proceeded to tell me his username one letter at a time and with no confidence at all. Here is a copy of how it went down:

user: “M ummm for mike… (long pause)”

me: ok m

user: “Q ummmm for like cucumber”

me: I’m sorry was that q for Quebec or Queen or c for Charlie”

user:”ummmm yeah like c for Charlie”

I swear I heard a sound that played out loud, like a levelling up in a video game. I just went from being a IThelp desk worker to a veteran IT worker!

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Moral of the Story…

freecake

I’m working in my office this morning when there is a tap at my door. It is a teacher who brings in their own macbook. I open the door and she says. “Hey, I just put some cake in the staffroom that you can help yourself to”. My hopes rise, could this be it? Could this be the one time someone comes to my door to see me and they don’t need something done this instant? The music starts playing in my head, I see myself skipping through the field that was Windows XP default wallpaper…

“Oh and I forgot my password, can you reset it for me please?” She continues.

Moral of the story, there is no such thing as a free cake!

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