Re: OT: Trusting you fellow human, lesson learned

On Jan 12 2009 1:52 PM, XaQ Morphy wrote:

On Jan 12 2009 12:37 PM, charrison100 wrote:

here is a fun one for you, Our law office moved and we had a person
working with us to set up the computers. This person had rolled out new
computers to the firm a year before and had been there helping out part
time while they were in school. Every computer that they hooked up was
upside down. These are not desktops nor are they confusing. Hell the top
is even slightly rounded. Look at the Dell mini tower cases.

lol awesome, gotta love the ultra clueless.

I work in tech support, that blog you had about the guy wanting you to
stop a process is nothing compared to what i get on a daily basis.

I started out my IT career in the early 90s doing phone helpdesk in the
days before the tiered help system. That meant a call comes in and you
don't hang up until the problem is solved. If that meant walking a sales
guy through formatting the drive and reinstalling windows 3.1 from scratch
then so be it!

We're on a similar system here. 150 staff 3 IT. 1 front end guy, Me, 1
server guy and the manager/programmer.

Best part is we do not have to wait on committees or meetings to do
anything. Have an Idea prove it works put it in.


If you remember the chicken fried donk story from a few summers ago
(summer of 2006 I believe), that house project still hasn't been
completed. I don't ever recommend anyone having friends do house work
like that for them because it is just a ruined friendship waiting to
happen.

That's sick.

I had a buddy doing the flooring on the upper level of my house, I told
him "I can do it myself but it will look like ***. I expect it to look
better.

After he got the carpet up he realized he had to replace the subfloor, did
that. He got half the floor laid in the master and i pointed out it was
not straight. Started again. He got the master done. I pointed out that
half the floor had a random staggering to the lines and then the other
half was a repeating patter. he did it a third time. Other 2 bedrooms
there was a chips in a board and he had to take half back up. He covered
the registers and forgot where they were.

I give him credit, I was a pain in the ass but he got it perfect. he also
will not do floors again.

He did it for half the price of all the other quotes we got. He's going to
be doing my bathroom tiling next.

I can do pipes, sumps and electrical but when it gets down to the details
in the finishing, tiles, drywalling, flooring and carpeting it is just
best for me to hire someone.


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Morphy
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"You...are just as funny...as Popinjay is" --Will in New Haven


Chris

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