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

[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 ;)