phiber wrote:Been there, still there. My job sometimes requires me to cooperate with 3 large companies that you hear about almost every day. It's ironic that sometimes during restructuring those giants fire competent people. If they would just fire incompetent ones, no "restructuring" would be needed.
Another real-life example:
Last week I was working on some hardware with a systems administrator in a medium-sized company. The internet gateway router only allows per-ip access so I had to use her computer to check something. Of course, she didn't allow me to use her computer by myself. So I said: "Please open http://www.some-web-server.com/service-check". What did she do? Wait for Internet Explorer to open up the default homepage (google) and then typed in the address I gave her INTO THE SEARCH BAR. For the next 10 minutes she was trying to assure me that's how to surf the web. The sad part is: she wasn't kidding. That's what she really think. And guys, don't be sarcastic just because she's a woman. Oh yeah, I forgot, that company sends her to sysadmin courses 2 times per year. Advanced courses. She always fails. When something goes wrong software/hardware wise they always outsource the job. Sysadmin, yeah right.
Phiber, with great annoyance, i have to agree with you. The amount of people i know who browse the web through search bars amazes me. I feel like slapping them, but alas, i like my job to much... I sometimes feel like crying at their incompetence. They also seem to wonder why it does not come up in google sometimes... Perhaps its because the website havent payed to be searchable???
extremely annoying.
There is this RM engineer who comes into where i work, to swap out PCs and fix problems which we are not allowed to do, as we are in a "managed contract" (which i hate). He is probably the biggest idiot i know. he has no idea what he is doing and i dread it when they email me saying:
**** will be out on site today...
i keep an imaginary gun in my draw so i can shoot myself....
*rant over*
