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I work as IT support and installations/implementations of low level servers. I have to deal with technologically unadvanced people all day, so this will be my ranting place.

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When I tell a user that I'll look into his problem

When I tell a user that I’ll look into his problem

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When I realize I forgot to fix a bug right after putting into production

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When I use a VPN

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Ctrl+Z

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Client asking us for free features

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Forgot LIMIT in my SQL query

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When specs change again right before deadline

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When I discover the deadline is set for tomorrow

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When I’m finally done with my demo

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Running a big SQL query for the first time

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IT guys share the dumbest helpdesk requests they’ve ever had (13 Photos)

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None of these surprised me...

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Me trying to keep our 600 thin clients running

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note to self:

* 0,6,12,18 * * * /backupvm.py means something completely different than

0 0,6,12,18 * * * /backupvm.py

Luckily, I caught it after after it ran about 50 backups (per vm)

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fuck whoever invented cryptolocker.

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apparently, outlook 2000 is too old to support IMAP. I had a hard time explaining this to the client, who insisted I “just make it work”.