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On 06/07/2013 01:12, bad apple wrote:
At one point we had a saying 'Too many users, not enough hand grenades!' and also 'Why doesn't Aspect[1] have a stun setting?'On 05/07/13 23:15, Julian Hall wrote: Ha, good story. >> despite telling me there was nothing wrong with /his/ computer If I had a penny...I always say, look, chief, if there was nothing wrong with your computer, you wouldn't be talking to me now, would you?You did say it was your first day though: I presume by now you are a fully hardened BOFH who knows to trust that the users are always lying.It's always the same story for us sorry IT folks - the system would work just fine, if it wasn't for the damn users.Cheers
Same day we were told the mail server had gone down.. cue lots of annoyed customers and a string of apologies. Later on we were told that actually it had been a DOS attack on the server and they'd let it go on so they could trace the source. Then the Police were informed. Hrm.
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