[RESOLVED] Co-workers.

[CobraTekMax]

Okay, we've seen a rash of posts complaining about customers, but what about the people you work with? Is there anybody at your job who's in line for a serious @$$-whooping?

There's a guy at our shop who does printers and small business machines. He can fix ANYTHING you throw at him, no matter how mucked up it is. But he's irritating and gets under everyone's skin. He's real big into CBs & Ham radios, and he gets deeply insulted if you don't turn on your CB when you go out on a call so he can run his mouth. And every day...he turns the radio up and listens to Paul Harvey and laughs at EVERYTHING he says. Plus, he has no concept of billing. He'll spend 3 our 4 hours taking apart an inkjet printer to clean it, and then try to charge the customer for all of that time. 3x45 = 135. We can't make him see that no one wants to spend that much on an inkjet, so we have to majorly slash the bill.

He's 6'4, 300lbs, and weak as a kitten. I've had this guy's "help" moving a copier, and he just let the thing go going down a set of stairs, and I nearly got crushed. "My wrist gave out" was his explanation.

One of these days, he's gonna catch me in a bad mood....

[RLD]

What about co-workers that fry everything they touch with static (some people seem to have more static than others)? Yet these people still refuse to use any anti-static devices!

[skut]

i just did a lil contract last week and i was quite amused/pissed after the first day. it was quite funny to listen to this person and that say their certs: A+, MCSE, CNE, etc etc. yet when time came down to work, it showed what they knew. granted, they could have been certified, but most of em were paper techs. i havent seen so many botched jobs evver in my life.

it was funny. the first woman got a call on her cell phone. instead of pollitely removing herself to talk, she walked deeper into the crowd of people and began her convo. "uninstall your printer port in the BIOS"(WTF?!?!) "set lpt1 to com5, irq 11 (umm what kinda computer have YOU been using. personally, i think it was a staged call. nevertheless...she put out the most errors, completely messing up every DNS setting possible. the sad thing is that they gave detailed instructions as to what needed to go where and even gave screen shots.

it was quite annoying to have to go back and fix peoples work after the second day of this crap. some people need to learn just to keep their mouth shut.

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[cyberhh]

before I got to this site there was a guy here that everyone wanted to kill. He would get drunk at lunch and do lines in the bathroom. He got bored one night came in late and un-clustered our servers! He would migrate server information without bothering to check if it was used and without informing the department whose data he was moving! Just mentioing his name around here bring laughter and raise bolld pressure.

[pga]

We had one female technician that used to wear ACDC and Kiss T-shirts to work with socks pulled over her sweat pants. She would do the most manly burps ever (about 2x per hour). She also would eat with her mouth open while talking to customers and use impressive english skills by diagnosing the problem to the customer by saying "it' don't work".

We also had a guy who just couldn't grasp the concept of computers using primarily 2 different types of screws/threads and would force a screw if it didn't go in easily.

[drgonzoid]

we had one guy who would spend andywhere up to 3 hours out of an 8 hour day in the toilet - he would spend up to 40 minutes out of every hour in the can - but the kicker is before he went into the toilet he would stand at his desk, take off his tie (yes we are backward here in aust, we still have to wear nooses at work), unbutton his shirt, take off his belt then walk to the toilet, stand out side the door and smooth his clothes down then spend anything up to 40 minutes at a time in a small white room with nothing but the toilet and himself for company - unfortunately noone had the nerve to ask him what he was doing before he left so it has now entered the world of the twilight zone

[NeuromancerIV]

Some of my bosses have been overly impressed by degrees and certs, later I have to go and undo the damage these dorks have inflicted on my or my clients networks. ***disclaimer!!this is not to say everyone with degrees and certs and no practical experience outside of a classroom are nits!***
But when I have to re/train them, they'd bloody well drop that arrogant "I have pieces of paper that proclaim my knowledge" facade so I can "unlearn what they have learned."
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"I can't help you right now, I'm venting.."

[Milkman]

About six months ago my old boss hired some kid off the streets. He said that he took the A+ class and was taking his test soon. Anyway, he had many iD10t errors. Once he asked me if the HDD LED hooked where it said MSG LED. Then he asked me if a VGA monitor was color, the list just goes on and on. Then after he didn't come to work for two days we fired him. Turned out he got arrested for posession of pot. He's hatin' it.....

[snot]

OMG we got a new tech were i work MCSE guy with chip on his shoulder 3rd day on the job were are heading home i tell him to lock the servers and we leave, next morning i can hear my phone rining as i unlock the door
it stoped before i could get it i look at the servers and they are safe to power off AHHHHHHHH phone rings again.

[xtech-isme]

We have one tech who picks his nose and dam it look's like his whole hand goes up his nose! What more he is a beer drinker and bean eater. Nothing against that, but after lunch..front door and back door and all fans on. Even when itis cold out. I am glad no one smokes or else the whole darn place would go up with a bang.

[Goon]

My "Genius" boss just hired a new tech to replace one of our team members who was smart enough to get away. This new tech has "been to all of the MCSE classes but "has not had time to take the tests" wink wink. She also said that she was a network Admin before but wanted to do help desk for a while! I am told that she is supertech and I should try and learn as much as I can from her! Well on supertechs first day I am supposed to show her around. I figure I can skip all the B.S. since she was supertech. Well to shorten this up she has no clue when it comes to anything with a powercord. I.E.: does not know how to hook up a monitor, does not know what a driver is, Could not figure out why CAT-5 cable is useed when we already have phone lines. It just goes on and on.

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"Stupidity should be painful"

[sprkymrk]

I am sure everyone has one of these guys around: He is very good at his job and very friendly, but always is talking about himself and playing the "one upmanship" game. If you mention anything, ANYTHING at all about something you've seen or done you can bet he's seen or done it better. Ex: "Wow, you should have seen that wreck down the road, there must have been 3 cop cars, 2 ambulances and a firetruck..." "Oh yeah, well you should of seen the one I saw last year, 8 cops, 5 ambulances ,2 firetrucks and a helicopter!" or "Man am I beat, I've worked 70 hours this week." "Oh that's nothing, I used to work 90 hours a week with no breaks on my last job and I did that for a year!" etc., etc. The worst part is how he always steers the conversation to himself. Insecure I guess.

[Jallentino]

We had an idiot here that was Certified to the gils on one of those power trip 3 week courses. He totally Freaked out when he got back to the world here and discovered that the Device Manager had DISAPPEARED on all our operating systems. After we laughed our butts off we finally told him that we were using NT.

[Sckott]

I'm happy I'm the only tech here. Our company DID hire a weekend tech because I just refused to work weekends anymore. They hired what they call a "paper tech" is right! He couldn't even install a CD Rom on a Dell. He never checked the master/Slave setting, and after force-deleting the bus mastering (Intel) he was ready to re-install windows without permission from the customer.
I walked in just to get some supplies, and walked into him doing the job. He took over 3 hours trying to "figure this one out". I asked him about the jumpers, and he swore he looked at em...sheepishly. Uh, oh. 20 seconds, I boot the thing up with the jumpers in the right place. I called him a lazy turd who didn't deserve the A+ he's got. I walked away, and he was apologetic promising me coffee on Monday.
"Don't bother!" I said.
What burns me, is this ectoplasm of a tech could have been a much larger raise for me. Since he's fried 4 computers, they keep him away with anything with a cord.

[Captain Showercap]

Yeah.... I know all about paper techs. At one place i worked they hired a guy with all the right acronyms, and papers to back them up. Only he hardly knew how to open a computer case, and was always asking me (a rookie) how to fix things. Turned out this guy had done time for Bigamy, fraud, and several things. He is wanted by the Police for ripping off some US Postal Service employees.