Things that piss me off about corporate IT

**Radical Dreamer** · June 8th, 2005, 08:58 AM

This is just a rant of things that piss me off about corporate IT, please list only CORP IT issues.

1. Fecking CAL, why cant they make it simple

2. People before you that had lousy licensing documentation. It should be law that the software companies give you ways to look up licenses. I know some do this but ALL should be required.

3. License agreements that read like quantum mechanics exams

4. Things needing to be done yesterday with no budget and no help on jobs that take large amounts of time.

5.Calls at 3am

6. IT being the most important position when something doesnt work right and pissed on the rest of the time.

7. People acting like you are lazy because you dont ALWAYS have something to do. I have to remind them, when things work, ive done my job well.

**gazzak** · June 8th, 2005, 10:32 AM

Users

**Radical Dreamer** · June 8th, 2005, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by gazzak

Users

Care to elaborate? The users that piss me off the worst are the ones that send me an email asking me to do something and feel it necessary to copy everyone in the entire world.

**RejectionMan** · June 8th, 2005, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Radical Dreamer

Care to elaborate? The users that piss me off the worst are the ones that send me an email asking me to do something and feel it necessary to copy everyone in the entire world.

ooooooo.... that dang wabit!

I hate those people, because my boss is always why haven' t you dealt with this, why did they have to tell me to get you to do it. my answer is always this is the first i've heard of it!

**Tecumseh** · June 8th, 2005, 03:54 PM

The suits will never get it figured out. The best thing to do when the stuff gets too deep is call in sick, open a brewski and watch "Office Space" ... aaagain!

**IT Len** · June 8th, 2005, 07:12 PM

Middle or upper management wanting you to prioritize their crashed email ahead of a mainframe project. *Your network scheduled backup of extremely sensitive data failed...and the VP wants you in his office "right now" to get Media Player running on his workstation....*

After years of education, working your way up the ladder, gathering experience and knowhow...they think your job is "easy" because you make it look that way...

And the inverse of that...you do something that any stupid user would know how to do, and they think it's some kind of miracle! "OOOOOooooo...how were you able to resize that .jpg file? You're such a great geek!"

**rgharper** · June 8th, 2005, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by gazzak

Users

A cannibal goes to the human meat market to buy a brain for his lunch (as one would). He sees a little poster that boasts about the quality of IT professional brains that are currently on sale.

He asks the sales assistant: "How much does the programmer's brain cost?"

"Three dollars per kilo" replies the salesman.

"How much for an analyst's brain then?"

"Three dollars and fifty cents per kilo"

"What about the user's brain?"

"One hundred and fifty dollars per kilo."

"What? How can it cost that much?" he asks, astonished.

The salesman replies "Do you have any idea how many users I have to kill to get one kilo of brain?"

**Radical Dreamer** · June 13th, 2005, 07:51 PM

This just goes to show how dead this board has become. A paltry 6 replies, this making 7 on a good ole' stupid fecking users rant

**10of40** · June 14th, 2005, 03:39 PM

Unfortunate... but the main reason I'm here is because I can't get into the chat from work.

**monkeyman2** · June 16th, 2005, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Tecumseh

The suits will never get it figured out. The best thing to do when the stuff gets too deep is call in sick, open a brewski and watch "Office Space" ... aaagain!

Give back my stapler!!!!

I'm glad I don't work in corp.!!