The joys of being an IT lakey

[kibbster]

Well a meeting this morning was like out of "Some mothers do ave em."

Standing infront of 24 bigwigs in the boardroom I had that sinking feeling that my flies were undone... They were.

At one point I "humphed" and brought proceedings to a standstill by my "interruption" 24 pairs of eyes turned to glare at me, fortunately I had to give my permission for them to continue.

The PC I was setting up for them on short notice went out of it's way to **** me up and seemed to be raising some consternation amongst the said Bigwigs that things weren't on schedule as I had to keep climbing under desks to route cables in between Bigwigs legs (they did have nice shoes and no one could see my shame under the desk.)

On the plus side one of the people there kindly informed me that everyone used "Apple" now as if that would solve everything.

In short, wanted the ground to swallow me up but the ground also hated me and refused to open up and deliver me to oblivion so instead I ran away and refused to go back.
I was only supposed to be supplying a USB stick and it turned into humiliation and public shame in front of important and powerful people in the office... Ah the joys of IT.

[Raffles]

Back in the late '80s & early '90s I was self employed, and amongst other things, designed databases (dBase, anyone remember that beauty? then MS Access) for corporate clients. They used to work fine while I was at home testing them, then you install them on the client's machines and things go wrong.

The amount of lies and bullshit I used to come out with to explain the glitches was a wonder to behold... because at that time, most people were still ignorant of these things, and as long as you knew a bit more than them, you could wing it. Happy days!

[testdruif]

ah, it's all ok, everyone has days like those

Today an assistant came to me with a blackberry of one of her bosses and simply said "he gave it to me and said it shut down in the middle of a call".
She could not answer any of my other questions like "does this happen a lot or is the phone shutting down or just hanging up the call".

Turned out it was just a flat battery...
I then just gave it to her and said, if he wants support he should come and bring the darn thing in himself.

It doesn't matter how high up the food chain they are, they should still be reasonable and "smart".
Other assistants tell me stories about if they didn't tell their manager to pack undies they would go on a 2 week trip without them...

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Remember kibbster. The power you wield as an IT tech' can only be dreamed of by the likes of the starchy shirt brigade! Your weapon, the double edged sword of technobable and tolerance, cuts the ignorant to the bone. Your badge of office is the logon screen, your heraldic title - Administrator.
Be assured, it takes but one delayed installation of 'Virtual Girl' to bring the starchys to their knees, begging for your technological wizardry. If timed well on a machine for used for presentations, your price in favours knows no bounds. Savour it, let the phone ring a little longer.
Stand tall, walk slow, you are legion. Only the foolish provoke the brotherhood of technobabble wizardry.