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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The FatMan’s IT secrets

Working in IT I have been forced to come up with ways to keep myself from killing people. If you are thinking about working in IT there are some things you can do to help cope with the stress. Things you will never learn in some class room. For example, if you have a office has a door with a window in it so people can see you are in. Cover the window up with meme’s, but don’t cover it up straight away, do it one meme at all, over a couple of months. That way no one jumps to the conclusion that you are doing it deliberately to stop people seeing if you are in. That way you avoid the dreaded just popping in to say ‘hi and just a quick question’.

Here is the list which fills my door:

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