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Thereâs a continuum of weirdness in IT departments. Trust me, Iâm a retired programmer. An important IT skill is pretending to be normal. It makes end users not want to hide from you and makes interaction run smoothly. I always tried to make users feel like we were working together regardless of how I felt about it.
1) Your PC wonât power on. If the lights in the office are out and when you look out the window the transformer on the power pole on the street is sparking, thereâs no need to call IT (from your cell phone).
2) That little tray that slides out of your PC or laptop⊠Itâs not a cup holder.
3) How come when youâre at home shopping on Amazon.com you can recite your credit card info without looking at the card, but at work you canât remember your login password even though you had us reset it to âpasswordâ for you yesterday (AND you have it taped under your keyboard for all the world to see)?
4) Speaking of being at home⊠How come you can setup and configure a complex home theater system but at work you canât figure out how the conference phone worksâŠeven with the directions sitting right next to the phone (OhâŠthatâs rightâŠyou threw the directions away because it made the conference room look âclutteredâ).
It guys might be weird, but users make them that way.
miztrniceguy almost 2 years ago
Sheâs not wrong, lol!
RadioDial Premium Member almost 2 years ago
âDread Pirate Robertsâ. lol
poppacapsmokeblower almost 2 years ago
I can see the age difference just by looking at their hands, 42.
willie_mctell almost 2 years ago
Thereâs a continuum of weirdness in IT departments. Trust me, Iâm a retired programmer. An important IT skill is pretending to be normal. It makes end users not want to hide from you and makes interaction run smoothly. I always tried to make users feel like we were working together regardless of how I felt about it.
William Bludworth Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Wanna know why IT people are weird?
1) Your PC wonât power on. If the lights in the office are out and when you look out the window the transformer on the power pole on the street is sparking, thereâs no need to call IT (from your cell phone).
2) That little tray that slides out of your PC or laptop⊠Itâs not a cup holder.
3) How come when youâre at home shopping on Amazon.com you can recite your credit card info without looking at the card, but at work you canât remember your login password even though you had us reset it to âpasswordâ for you yesterday (AND you have it taped under your keyboard for all the world to see)?
4) Speaking of being at home⊠How come you can setup and configure a complex home theater system but at work you canât figure out how the conference phone worksâŠeven with the directions sitting right next to the phone (OhâŠthatâs rightâŠyou threw the directions away because it made the conference room look âclutteredâ).
It guys might be weird, but users make them that way.
Aladar30 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
That would make sense too. But the world is still not ready for that level of Stranger things.