I can fix stuff without touching it

[SNAFU]

I love days like that. When the user complains...they call one o the techs. If the tech can't do a damn thing with it, they call me. I walk in, give the monitor the "Gaze of Doom" that portrays my thoughts ("I will not hesitate to scrap your @ss!") then I sit down...it boots, it logs onto the network, and all is well. Many have asked how I do it. My reply is,"Intimidation. The computer knows when it's beat. That...or they're scared what I'm going to do with the mallet I placed beside the tower."

[MacGyver]

Two words: REMOTE ADMINISTRATION

Novell ZENworks rules! You can do just about anything to another workstation without even getting up! Don't tell anyone though, makes for great job security!

[Reality]

That happens to me all too often. A patron will come up to me and give me some sad story about how they hit the print button and the printer still won't print. I usually walk over to the printer and give it a little pat (as long as the lights are flahing ) and it will start right up within seconds. What they don't understand is that it sometimes takes the network printers a little time to respond to the large tasks. Or sometimes I just walk by the computer and "all of a sudden" its working again. I had one today.

-- I can't get into Word!

So I promptly run over to the computer and double click the word icon and bang it comes up. I just love the look on the patrons' faces when it works for me but everything they tried failed.

We have one kid who comes in everyday though that is the touch of death for these poor computers. I swear he can freeze them just by looking at them. 9 in one hour!

[Sowulo]

Originally posted by Reality:
We have one kid who comes in everyday though that is the touch of death for these poor computers. I swear he can freeze them just by looking at them. 9 in one hour!

He's the embodied ghost of the luddite movement!!!!!

[Greeniggy]

It's not IT aura, it's static electricity.

[sdrawkcab]

Happens a lot to me, also in reverse... I had a Micron PC a while back that I stripped completely... no POST, no Video, just power up and sit there. So, I give up after 1.5 hours on the bench. I have replaced every part but the motherboard, and so it must be the motherboard right?

So I tell junior tech to reassemble the system w/customer's original parts and call them w/the bad news. He does so, and turns on computer HELLO Windows 95 desktop no problems with this computer for 6 months now. Go figure.