[Am-info] IT Department Memo

[Fred A. Miller]

IT Department Memo

1) When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it 
buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, 
dried flowers, bowling trophies and children's art. We don't have a life 
and find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.

2) Don't write anything down. Ever. We can play back the error messages 
from here.

3) When an I.T. person says he's coming right over, go for coffee. That 
way you won't be there when we need your password. It's nothing for us 
to remember 300 screen saver passwords.

4) When you call the helpdesk, state what you want, not what's keeping 
you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your 
mail because your computer won't power on at all.

5) When I.T. support sends you e-mail with high importance delete it at 
once. We're just testing.

6) When an I.T. person is eating lunch at his desk, call/walk right in 
and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.

7) Send urgent mail all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and 
flags it as a rush delivery.

8) When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's 
electronics in it.

9) When you are getting a NO DAIL TONE message at home, call computer 
support. We can fix your telephone line from here.

10) When you have a dozen old computer screens to get rid of, call 
computer support. We are collectors.

11) When something is wrong with your home PC, dump it on an I.T. 
person's chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the 
problem. We love a puzzle.

12) When an I.T. person tells you that computer screens don't have 
cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument.

13) When an I.T. person tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in 
a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by 
shortly?" That motivates us.

14) When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. 
Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.

15) When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to 
all sixty eight printers in the company. One of them is bound to work.

16) Don't learn the proper name for anything technical. We know exactly 
what you mean by "my thingy blew up".

17) Don't use on-line help. On-line help is for wimps.

18) If the mouse cable keeps knocking down the framed picture of your 
dog, lift the computer and stuff the cable under it. Mouse cables were 
designed to have 20 kg of computer sitting on top of them.

19) If the space bar on your keyboard doesn't work, blame it on the mail 
upgrade. Keyboards are actually very happy with half a pound of muffin 
crumbs and nail clippings in them.

20) When you get a message saying "are you sure?" click on that yes 
button as fast as you can. Hell, if you weren't sure, you wouldn't be 
doing it, would you?

21) When you find an I.T. person on the phone with his bank, sit 
uninvited on the corner of his desk and stare at him until he hangs up. 
We don't have money to speak of anyway.

22) Feel perfectly free to say things like "I don't know nothing about 
that computer crap". We don't mind at all hearing our area of 
professional expertise referred to as crap.

23) When you need to change the toner cartridge in a printer, call I.T. 
support. Changing a toner cartridge is an extremely complex task, and 
Hewlett-Packard recommends that it be performed only by a professional 
engineer with a master's degree in nuclear physics.

24) When you can't find someone in the government directory, call I.T. 
support.

25) When you have a lock to pick on an old file cabinet, call I.T. 
support. We love to hack.

26) When something's the matter with your computer, ask your secretary 
to call the help desk. We enjoy the challenge of having to deal with a 
third party who doesn't know anything about the problem.

27) When you receive a 30 MB (huge) movie file, send it to everyone as a 
mail attachment. We've got lots of disk space on the mail server.

28) Don't even think of breaking large print jobs down into smaller 
chunks. Somebody else might get a chance to squeeze a memo into the queue.

29) When an I.T. person gets on the elevator pushing $100,000 worth of 
computer equipment on a cart, ask in a very loud voice: "Good grief, you 
take the elevator to go DOWN one floor?!?" That's another one that 
cracks us up to no end.

30) When you lose your car keys, send an email to the entire company. 
People in the executive area like to keep abreast of what's going on.

31) When you bump into an I.T. person at the grocery store on a 
Saturday, ask a computer question. We do weekends.

32) Don't bother to tell us when you move computers around on your own. 
Computer names are just a cosmetic feature.

33) When you bring your own personal home PC for repair at the office, 
leave the documentation at home. We'll find all the setting and drivers 
somewhere.

34) We do not really believe you are a bunch of ungrateful twits. It 
hurts our feelings that you could even think such a thing. We wish to 
express our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of clueless loser company 
staff portrayed herein, without whom none of this would have been 
remotely possible.

35) Keep it crashing! Keep using WinBloze!

(Courtesy of www.techtales.com)


-- 
Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
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