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I work with several idiots.
Our company is several hundred strong, so you ar bound to have a few idiots in the bunch.
We have nicknames for most of the wacko's.
Giulliani Jr - A tech with a slurring speech impediment. Dont stand too close or you will get wet.
Rainman - Another tech with the looks and mental abilities of Rainman.
Meow Mix - A former sales rep who may have suffered from turets syndorome, but would blurt out loud cat calls in the middle of the office for no reason!
I own my on shop now, but when I first got into the business I worked for another small shop in this area.
We had this one dude that worked there. His wife would call and I'd answer the phone. She would ask for him, I would put him on, they would talk for a half hour, then he would tell the boss that he had been talking to a customer and that he was going on a service call. Often, he wouldn't come back that day.
That really takes balls...........geezzzz!
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WildTech
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A co-worker got a machine with a dead CMOS battery on his desk.
The motherboard was designed to use a rechargeable battery, but he managed to hook a Lithium cell to it...
After the machine had run for a few hours he called me over and asked if I thought the battery was bit hot. And hot it was... Real hot, as in the plastic almost melting!
I told him what he'd done wrong. That you never use a Lithium cell when there is a recharge current, and that he would have to install a NiCad cell instead. He nodded and I got back to my own stuff, assuming that he understood what I've told him, and would do as he was told...
NEWER ASSUME that boneheads understands what you tell them! You have to check, check and check again. And even then they will on occasion manage to surprise you...
The next thing I heard about this particular machine was when the customer called, saying that there was something wrong with the machine. I sent the call to our friend, the bonehead, and continued working with my stuff.
After the call he came to me and said that apparently some thing had happened with the machine, as there were smoke coming from it. At this I remembered which machine it was and asked if he had replaced that Lithium cell. I'll give you three guesses as to what he answered...
As the machine worked he couldn't see that it would be a problem. That the battery got a little warm couldn’t be that serious. So he just closed it up, let it run for a few more hours and called the customer. After all what could happen?!!!
When the customer arrived there soon was a crowd of some 15 - 20 people surrounding their machine. I've never before or later seen a computer so demolished!
It looked as if a stick of dynamite had been used. The side panels were standing almost straight out, and of the plastic front there wasn't a trace...
Both the customer and his son had been in the room when the machine exploded, and both had a bit of a problem with their hearing. As luck has it, none of them suffered a permanent loss of hearing, or suffered any other injuries. But the apartment needed a thorough cleaning. Everything inside it was covered with dust.
Of the machine only the HDD survived long enough for a backup to be made...
What compensation the customer received I don't know, but my co-worker left the company shortly after as he got a job at the local air traffic control centre, servicing their computers...
For some reason he didn’t last more than a month there, but still it makes me a bit queasy to think of him lurking amongst their computers… ;-)
Regards,
B.Slisk
*/ Been there, done that, cried myself to sleep... /*
Yep....been in the "paper tech" situ before. Though I NEVER claim to know it all, I take a deep interest in all I do and learn as much from hands-on as possible. And it paid off too:
I had just passed my first Computer tech test (A+, which meant I had finished an 12 mo. course in just 8 mos.), and was throwing out a few resumes.....and I ran accross one for a "Computer Geek Wanted". Well, of course, that just suited me, so I applied ASAP. Within 2 weeks, I was working there, as the sole Admin for an ISP. LoL, fresh outta tech school, and a Admin....BIG boost of my ego! ;o)
As time went by, and most of my shakiness went away, I learned more of the former Admin, who I had replaced. he had set up the servers, routers, internal network....just everything. He had Dual degrees from some University in TX in computers of some sort, LOTS of big names & companies on his resume....and was also a fromer Navy Seal! I thought, wow.....how on earth could I fill these shoes???
As more time went by, I started to find LOTS of MAJOR probs w/the servers & network in general. NO defrag software, NO anti-virus updates, major ports left open for NO reason on the firewall, actually NO schedule for ANY maintainance AT ALL....and NO way to remotely access anything there.
Once I spent a month or two filling the owners in on the lists of tragic problems w/the whole system(s)....they told me why they let him go:
Turns out he had NO computer degrees WHATSOEVER...he has used phone tech support to set up EVERYTHING there, so he had bacically faked thru it all! The main owner also worked High security for a Gov't plant, so his profile was kept tabs on very closely. He had to fire this guy when he found out that his computer experience had been learned thru experience while serving 5 to 10 in an Ohio State Prison for Armed Robbery of a Grocery Store! If the owner would have kept contact with him, he would have been fored from the security job, and under suspicion as well.
And, to add the most insult to injury...the guy was NEVER a Navy Seal! And, let me tell you....he will suffer for that lie for the rest of his life. I've seen SEVERAL Websites out there dedicated to exposing the deadbeats that claim to be former Seals....and he is on MOST of them. Last we heard of him, was via mail, and he was wanting his W-2 sent to a friend's address....lol
Maybe I didn't work with this individual but I'm still yet irritated w/him just the same. Maybe I was VERY "green" when I started the job.....but after about 3 months, our ISP downtime was at almost nill, service was much faster and more effecient, and I got many compliments, from customers and management too! https://forums.windrivers.com/)
So, what can I say.....I sympathise with ya, folks! https://forums.windrivers.com/
We all have messed somthing up once in our careers. I always give people a few tries to fix themselves. If they start to learn and look like they are going to become good techs or network guys then i help them as best as i can, if they don't, then i try and direct them to another field. Karma always comes back to bite you in the *** or kiss you where it counts. and the good old boy network is still alive and well in this field, the tech your busted on yesterday could be your interviewer tomorrow or at least be his drinking buddy. I've seen it happen. As for idiot co-workers, I worked with one guy who shattered two laptop screens after he put a HPLJ 5si in the truck bed with them. The printer slid when he took a turn and smashed them like pancakes. Then he tried to blame it on the business he picked them up from. Sometimes a little common sense takes the place of knowledge, at least you can blind them with BS if you can't dazzle 'em with brillance.
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I don't mind my co workers so bad but my bosses are a pain in the ***. I like how whne someone call with a problem and you have no idea what they are talking about or how to fix it. But they expect you to do the job in record time. That's the main thing that pisses me off. I did have one co worker that just did nothing really all day. I feel I could probably do his average day in maybe two hours. He resigned and went for another job and they told him before he left that he could have his job back if he ever wanted it. Makes a lot of damn sense doesn't it.