15 Ways to Please Your IT Department

[WolfmanNCSU]

Just a little joke that I thought some of you might enjoy....

1. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it
buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals,
dried flowers, bowling trophies and children's art. We don't have a
life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.

2. Don't write anything down. Ever. We can play back the error messages
from here.

3. When an I.T. person says he's coming right over, go for coffee. That
way you won't be there when we need your password. It's nothing for us
to remember 700 screen saver passwords.

4. When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what's keeping
you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your
mail because your computer won't power on at all.

5. When I.T. support sends you an E-Mail with high importance, delete it
at once. We're just testing.

6. When an I.T. person is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and
spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.

7. Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and
flags it as a rush delivery.

8. When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's
electronics in it.

9. When you're getting a NO DIAL TONE message at home, call computer
support. We can fix your telephone line from here.

10. When you have a dozen old computer screens to get rid of, call
computer support. We're collectors.

11. When something's wrong with your home PC, dump it on an I.T.
person's chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the
problem. We love a puzzle.

12. When an I.T. person tells you that computer screens don't have
cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument.

13. When an I.T. person tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in
a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by
shortly?" That motivates us.

14. When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times.
Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.

15. When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to
all 68 printers in the company. One of them is bound to work.

[Moses]

When prepping for a data transfer the best place to store the files to be transfered is in "untitled folder" and then put it somewhere sensible such as the Library folder. Now you are ready for that transfer!

[Eidorian]

Originally Posted by Moses

When prepping for a data transfer the best place to store the files to be transfered is in "untitled folder" and then put it somewhere sensible such as the Library folder. Now you are ready for that transfer!

It's kinda hard to lose things when you have Spotlight. Yeah, I know what you mean about those printing issues. -_-

[Moses]

But for someone else's computer? I like to shoot the shit at the Genius Bar. People are retarded.

[Eidorian]

Originally Posted by Moses

But for someone else's computer? I like to shoot the shit at the Genius Bar. People are retarded.

Yeah, I follow the logical placement in my user folder. My most important stuff is on my desktop though.

Email gets annoying when you're spammed with cron outputs and printers sending me messages about toner or paper.

[Omega]

Haha, great! #6, I hate the most.

[Eidorian]

I'm eating lunch...













At my desk. *sob*

[WolfmanNCSU]

^ HAHA, ditto here!

But I also have a closed door...now if I could just tell the nation to not call as well...

[Coded-Dude]

16. go complain to IT that changing your password every 3 months is a nuisance and they will imediately have an emergency meeting with the baord to change the security policies to fit your comfort level.
(Seriously it works every time!)

[chaz0003]

Oh god, #3. Why do they think it's the perfect time to take a break.
I dropped everthing to come over to an empty desk.

[Eidorian]

Meh, I leave my door open most of the time when I'm in my office.

[Sendok]

17. when working on the computer in your workstation please feel free to tell us what we are doing wrong, we love to be told how to do our job.

[Coded-Dude]

18. Although your Unix/Linux administratior may know how to fix your petty Windows laptop issue.....thats doesn't mean he/she wants to or gets paid to(call the helpdesk!)

[Eidorian]

19. Place alias to every program every program you have on your desktop. And while you're at it put every document on it too.

I know the pain from #18. I'm a Mac person. I have to fix Windows issues though.


I HATE cluttered desktops. Look at mine. So nice and clean...

[Sendok]

I keep my HDD in the dock, only things I only need for a day or two touch my desktop.

[WolfmanNCSU]

That's a nice clean desktop.

I used to have mine very clean, just some nice shortcuts arranged the way i wanted them, and the occausional document that i was working on or two.

Recently I decided to change that up some and place all my shortcuts into dock around the screen, and have more desktop space for documents, files, programs, notes, downloads, so they are more in you face.

It leads to more random messes, but no one else here uses this machine but me, so no one else has to look at it. And it allows me to continue working on multi projects at the same time.

Now my coworkers have some of the worse looking desktops I have seen. Icons from one side to the other and in no order at all.

[Eidorian]

That and my work directory is about 2 clicks away.

[NoZ]

^Those desktop pics made mine feel messy. So I cleaned it up .

[Coded-Dude]

woa....sorry big image.
I run a lot of apps but don't necessarily need a lot of icons

[NoZ]

^Im lovin' the background!