What exactly is a manager?

[Smitty]

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Too many to laugh at/with...

Smitty

 

[elgringo56]

Sorry because you will all think I make this up.
This morning, about 45 minutes ago, I had to 'fix' a broken computer because the cleaning lady had taken out the plug yesterday to put her hoover in...

I had the same problem, only it was with a co-workers speakers. She said her speakers were broken, so I go through her driver's, the software and yes, even the cables for it. The last thing I checked - the volume.

I repair and build custom computers for a living. The one I love the most is when a customer calls and tells me he has no sounds, and yes the speakers are pluged in to the jack marked as speaker. My next question is " is that jack next to a phone jack" The answer is usually yes, they have the speakers pluged into the modem card. I have a million stories like that, but that is my favorite one.

 

[Brian from Maui]

I repair and build custom computers for a living. The one I love the most is when a customer calls and tells me he has no sounds, and yes the speakers are pluged in to the jack marked as speaker. My next question is " is that jack next to a phone jack" The answer is usually yes, they have the speakers pluged into the modem card. I have a million stories like that, but that is my favorite one.

Sadly, I'm guilty of this very same thing when I first got my computer 10 years ago. I called tech support for Gateway..... You didn't work for Gateway back then did you? It was a 120mz Pentium with a 2 gig hard drive. I'm not so sure if I progressed any further.

 

[elgringo56]

No, have worked for myself for the last 11 years. One thing that has always amazed me is that I will have a client that has more money than god come in and say he wants the biggest, best and fastest he can have, then after I put it together and he has baught it and taken it home, he will call and ask how to hook it up or turn it on. That is not really that uncommon, seems to be a keep up with the Jones sort of thing to have one. Good for my business, though. LOL

 

[steve case]

Some time ago I made an Excel program for a lady at work, It helped her out with a daily cut and paste chore, and really made her life easier. All she has to do is click a button and it runs, well anyway, she had trouble with it earlier this week and I stopped by her desk at about 7:30 yesterday morning to ask if it was running OK now.

You know what she told me? "I don't start until 7:45"

The woman is nearly illiterate when it comes to computers, and she depands on me to help her with Excel. I'm not MIS support and helping her is not part of my job. I do it because I like to help people, and I love making things work in Excel. I haven't decided what I'm going to tell her the next time she pages me for help.

 

[Smitty]

I'm not MIS support and helping her is not part of my job. I do it because I like to help people, and I love making things work in Excel. I haven't decided what I'm going to tell her the next time she pages me for help.

Aren't most of us in the same position...It's a love/hate kinda' thing... :wink:

And managers are far worse than "regular" users.

Yesterday, for the hundreth time, I had to show my boss how to attach photos in a Lotus Not(s) e-mail. "Why is this so $#%*ing difficult?" he asked. "It's not, you are", was my reply; to which I, of course, got the finger. Then, for more than the hundreth time, he said "someday you're going to have to teach me how to do this..." You'd think that after 7+ years, he would have learned...

Smitty

 

[Felix Atagong]

Yesterday, for the hundreth time, I had to show my boss how to attach photos in a Lotus Not(s) e-mail. #snip# Then, for more than the hundreth time, he said "someday you're going to have to teach me how to do this..." You'd think that after 7+ years, he would have learned...

We must work for the same boss, mine has the same problem with Outlook Express. Once I had to come to the rescue because he had opened an attachment by double clicking on a mail from the inbox, tried to e-mail the open file to someone else but wanted to be sure it was the right file so he had clicked it once again to check. He couldn't find his mail message again (it was hidden 'behind' the open Excel window), so he tried to attach the open Excel file to a new mail... and so on... and so on... After a while Windows collapsed...

Luckily he pays me a pizza from time to time when I come to the rescue... Is it a bird, a plane? No, it is SUPER FELIX!

 

[Bruno_x]

Luckily he pays me a pizza from time to time when I come to the rescue... Is it a bird, a plane? No, it is SUPER FELIX!

Hi Felix, the IT-muscles from Brussels :wink:

The people in our office "know" that they have to pay in famous Belgian chocolates (like Leonidas http://www.leonidas.be/uk/index.asp?langue=uk)

 

[steve case]

By the way, managers are not the only ones that deserve ridicule. Here's another true story:

Quite a few years ago I asked the IT guy to help me get the system to print a report. I had done it before, but I had forgotten some steps and needed help. So he came in did some things and turned over the terminal to me and said, "It's menu option number 4 where it says, 'Print Report'."

"Hmmm" I said, "That's great, but isn't there more to it? I seem to remember having to type in 'P R I N T' somewhere along the line."

"No! Read the screen!" he said, "Number 4 says 'Print Report' that's the one you want."

"Something's missing" I said, "Are you sure I don't have to type in P R I N ..."

He cut me off and angrily told me again to read the screen, that number 4 said "Print Report."

Finally I said, "How do you get to this screen?"

"Oh" he said, "You type in P R I N T"

 

[steve case]

I hope someone is able to provide some help:

http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/viewtopic.php?t=126422