Years of Training...

[miss_squiddy]

AAAAaaaaRRggHH!!!

The man from IT just fixed my CD writer. In 0.1 seconds. Why couldn't I figure out how to do that???

Comments

0.1!

[airport-tales.livejournal.com]

Jeezo!

Hehe, did he press the open button ;) *grin*

Paulx

Re: 0.1!

[fuzzygoth.livejournal.com]

thats techminical experince for you ?

did he use trained squirrels to do it :)

Re: 0.1!

[miss_squiddy]

:P

[sorcha.livejournal.com]

Because it's his job. Not yours. Would you expect him to know the most basic thing about Victorian smelting? Now hush. ;-)

[miss_squiddy]

But I used to work in an office with 7 people doing IT support and I spent about 2 hours trying to fix the F'ing thing last week... *grrrr*

[orkney-rob.livejournal.com]

It's a special talent that we have ;-) I keep walking past machines and they mysteriously fix themselves as I do so - just as the user is saying "help".

[teadaemon.livejournal.com]

I second that. I've lost count of the number of problems I've fixed by just turning up and deciding to take a look.

I reckon that the machines see us geeks coming and decide to work, since they know the alternative is likely to involve a screwdriver and profanity.

[dj-pooka.livejournal.com]

or a bloody big hammer :D

[teadaemon.livejournal.com]

I'm a Brummie, the terms are somewhat interchangable.

[myrddrr.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten we used to call hammers 'Birmingham screwdrivers' when I worked gigs.

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

It's commonly refered to as the 'tech bubble' i.e. the zone around a hard core geek where system start working because they know the geek will disassemble them, to thier component parts, if necesary to get to the bottom of the problem.

Really good geeks have a tech bubble that can extend several meters away, and indeed are often employed to just sit in a server room and keep everything working purely by their presence.

[fuzzygoth.livejournal.com]

thats the best i've heard in a long time ;)

[dj-pooka.livejournal.com]

Tech support reserve the right to fix any problem in a matter of seconds, especially if it makes the end user look like a blathering idiot. *nods*

It's in the tech support rulebook.

[fuzzygoth.livejournal.com]

It is actually right under the Scotty
principle (of star trek fame).

[dj-pooka.livejournal.com]

Isn't that on the page before the Han Solo theorum?

[fuzzygoth.livejournal.com]

yes it states and job you have to do tell them it will take twice as long as it will to make yourself look good when you save time.

right next to obi wan's diet plan

[dj-pooka.livejournal.com]

Actually I was thinking that anything works in emergancies if you utter the sacred words "C'mon baby, hold together..."

[fuzzygoth.livejournal.com]

heh heh :)

[miss_squiddy]

*coughGEEKScough*

[fuzzygoth.livejournal.com]

:p

Blows big huge rapsberrys at you

[dj-pooka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we might be geeks, but where would ya be without us, hrm?

[miss_squiddy]

OK OK. Minus one CD writer. I appreciate your geekness.

Hairy Palms

[gommog.livejournal.com]

Most of us geeks develop hairy palms, this is usually after the pen holder phase, so if you were a cd writer would you want to be touched? It's only really this week that i've notice how bad i've become, my only salvation is an ability to drink, possibly to block out the pain of geekdom.

Re: Hairy Palms

[miss_squiddy]

There is no hope for you. Soon you will be talking about sci-fi as if it is real and has an important influence on your day-to-day life. (see above.)

Re: Hairy Palms

[gommog.livejournal.com]

Mork calling Ork, Mork calling Ork. Dammit, if only the quantified-transducer-mogrifier hadn't quarged this morning i could post back.

[myrddrr.livejournal.com]

I'm sure computers are semi-sentient, and they know when someone savvy is about to dismantle them if they don't behave.

That, or it's computer empathy, but that's a treasonous mutation...