Weird and Cringe things you've seen while working in IT - Since everyone is too lazy to make such a thread where IT bros can vent

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snov said:
I’m going to be that nightmare engineer who turns up with a personal laptop to enroll today.

Because two applications I (seldom) need to use are only available for windows, naturally I’m only allowed a windows laptop. I can’t stand the thing no matter how much I try to CBT hypnotise myself into thinking it’s not so bad. So I bought a MacBook Air I’m going to use for practically all my work, and then RDP into the garbage windows laptop the one time a week I need to use the software exclusive to that OS.
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Are you me?
 
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Keeping it vague because PL, holy FUCK some of the retards I have to work with cock up so much basic shit it makes me want to either drown them in acid or throw them off the nearest roof. Diversity hires were a horiffic mistake and dumb niggers worming into high level technical roles after doing some wish.com "course" that promises 6 figures while they put in no effort all need to be shot.

Right I'm done pouring salt all over the place, sneed
 
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jeff7989 said:
People hired for data entry not knowing keyboard shortcuts for copy, cut and paste, come on.
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Not surprising to be honest. Majority of Data Entry jobs aren't exactly a thinking man's job.

I've had to teach boomers that have been working with their company for 10+ years little tips and tricks one would think a basic computer user would already have known from the get-go. The plus side is that you get street cred and people look up to you. Downside is that you're more relied on than anyone else in that department because you outed yourself for having brains.

In their defense though, it all boils down to how they were taught. Data Entry is VERY one-tracked and repetitive, so if you throw a monkey-wrench in their flow, they freak the fuck out.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
Not surprising to be honest. Majority of Data Entry jobs aren't exactly a thinking man's job.

I've had to teach boomers that have been working with their company for 10+ years little tips and tricks one would think a basic computer user would already have known from the get-go. The plus side is that you get street cred and people look up to you. Downside is that you're more relied on than anyone else in that department because you outed yourself for having brains.

In their defense though, it all boils down to how they were taught. Data Entry is VERY one-tracked and repetitive, so if you throw a monkey-wrench in their flow, they freak the fuck out.
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If I had a nickel for everytime people toggling capslock on and off for capitalizing letters, I'll have at least 15 bucks. Add an extra dime whenever this is the cause for their password problems.
 
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There Is Light At The End said:
Not every user is aware of Tab button function when they login to the system via terminals. Some are not aware of ability to drag application windows on their screens
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Everything must be full screen all the time.
Especially on a giant 4k monitor. (And if this was the web rants thread I'd add, fuck any website that does this.)
 
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davids877 said:
Everything must be full screen all the time.
Especially on a giant 4k monitor. (And if this was the web rants thread I'd add, fuck any website that does this.)
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Full screen with mobile-centric and accessible UI so only four things are on screen at any given time
 
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There Is Light At The End said:
I absolutely LOVE when user complains about how his super important Excel sheet with thousands of internal calculations is opening slow from network drive.
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There's one at my office that has every transaction since 2014. All the boomers don't want to start a new one and it causes me more anxiety than it probably should. It is 5MB, which doesn't sound like a lot until you consider an average excel file is under 100KB.
 
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My latest bugaboo involved getting called down about an Excel macro that "stopped working." None of us grunts are Office macro mavens, but I used to be sort of handy with them two decades ago, so I took the case.

Actually reading the code revealed that it straight up deleted a column, and then looked for values in a few other columns to modify - except with the way the spreadsheet was set up, the values it was looking for would never ever be found there - think of trying to capitalize names in a column that stores dollar values. When asked what this was for, I received, "Boss says we run this on every spreadsheet that comes out of process X to use it to email customers," which causes the changes themselves to make no sense, even accounting for the fact this macro was written for some process which produced output very different than the current output. But, since the column deleted doesn't affect things, and presumably whatever they're feeding the processed file into is smart enough to figure out which column contains the data it needs (instead of just looking at column position) no one has bothered to question this process in years.

I advised the employee to stop running the code and reached out to her boss to discuss the code. That was a couple weeks ago, and boss hasn't gotten back to me. I suspect he won't. Fucking cargo cult.
 
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>be me
>get called for a computer issue (technically laptop)
>person can't download something from the internet due to "limited space" error
>check hard drive
<14MB LEFT OUT OF 57GB
>check installed programs
>literally nothing outside of the usual Microsoft shit
>tell her to start deleting things from her documents/pictures/downloads folders
<She does but doesn't empty out the recycling bin
>Do the basic bitch disk cleaner that comes with windows
>Total of 2GB is gained, including windows system files
<"OKAY YOU CAN LEAVE NOW!!!"
>Get called again later
>"So like, the site says the image i'm trying to upload isn't a recognizeable file type"
>check file type
<png1.zip
>"you have to EXTRACT the file from the zip folder"
>"OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

FYI, this is an office manager for a dentist office
 
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TheDataHorder said:
what the fuck is she storing.
cause fuck me it's impressive she's managed to damn near fill it up.
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My guess, pictures.

It's her personal laptop but she also uses it for work. She was working on the company website on it and rather than, you know, actually google the images she wanted to use for it, she goes to some graphics design website that gives her a shitload in a zip file (probably pays for it too). But I'm guessing the worst offenders are the pics she keeps transfering from her phone to her laptop, because now-a-days phone cameras have their settings defaulted to ultra mega high def 4k mode and they take up a fuck-ton of space if you're like almost every other normalfag woman that takes pictures of everything everywhere they go.

My mom has the same issue, I had to buy her a 2TB external just to keep all her pictures in there because she was having the same "low memory" issue on more than one occasion.

I really don't get their obsession over pictures.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
But I'm guessing the worst offenders are the pics she keeps transfering from her phone to her laptop, because now-a-days phone cameras have their settings defaulted to ultra mega high def 4k mode and they take up a fuck-ton of space if you're like almost every other normalfag woman that takes pictures of everything everywhere they go.

My mom has the same issue, I had to buy her a 2TB external just to keep all her pictures in there because she was having the same "low memory" issue on more than one occasion.

I really don't get their obsession over pictures.
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Just tell her to get an iPhone. It’ll automatically offload photos to iCloud as the phone fills up, and the process is transparent. Everything’s still visible in the image browser, just takes a second longer to open since it has to download first.
 
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