IT departments

[Sleeping_Easy]

If you have a bit of IT knowledge, you can have real fun with the IT departments. Most are not the geniuses they profess to be.

 

[OB1]

Most IT offices are filled with Warcraft geeks who sit around all day fucking tutting when someone has the nerve to call and say their computer won't switch on

Fucking c**ts to the last man

Our IT Dept is full of Rags plus a Leeds fan and we are in Berkshire!

No surprise then that I have had to remove unpleasant material from several of my electronic devices. Although, TBF, they take good care of me for the most part.

 

[quiet_riot]

If you have a bit of IT knowledge, you can have real fun with the IT departments. Most are not the geniuses they profess to be.

The worst is when users think they have a bit of IT knowledge; but are actually completely clueless.

 

[Damocles]

Oh if were as simple as getting access to pornhub!

The cunts insist that all new products must be cross platform

Seems perfectly sensible to me. Why lock yourself into a single technology?

, however we have a new eBook concept that will work perfectly on iPads (all our users have one) but in order to be cross platform we have to build in InDesign with enhancements from a 3rd party which makes the process at least 3 times as long and expensive and limits the quality considerably as Ibooks is way ahead of epub3.

This seems like an issue with the quality of Adobe's software and the 3rd party enhancements.

To top it off, this morning when accessing the 3rd party web portal our IT policy blocked me from at least half of the pages I need to access.

IT policies are wide-ranging across sometimes hundreds or thousands of users. As like when you design a new law, because it has to apply to everyone you create some cases where single people are affected negatively. You should put in a ticket about this and based on your security clearance and other things, they could make an exception for you.

They also refuse to buy more than one license and pay for more than one training course which means if the chosen one quits we are fucked!

This is a budget issue and not a technical issue. Can't really comment without knowing more about it financially.

This is a 1/2 million dollar project which will define our training methods for the next 5 years on a brand new aircraft type. It will put us at the forefront of pilot type rating training and guarantee third party business but all they can do is put up barriers.

I thought that a man in your position would appreciate barriers due to security. It only takes one user who doesn't know what they're doing to bring down the entire network. To avoid this, most IT departments presume that users are dribbling idiots and build security around this. This means that users who aren't dribbling idiots often feel patronised but it's a trade off in as much as you get pissed at the IT department but they are allowed to keep their jobs instead of having somebody wipe everybody's hard drive.

The one thing IT departments are the worst at, in the entire world, is communication of the logic of their decisions. Many are social retards who don't understand that you have to talk to people about why you've done something.

 

[malg]

The one thing IT departments are the worst at, in the entire world, is communication of the logic of their decisions. Many are social retards who don't understand that you have to talk to people about why you've done something.

In a nutshell. End of thread.

 

[TGR]

Exactly this!
They study for 5 years to get a university degree in IT and the only thing they ever tell you is to do that.
They generally never have any other ideas or clues on how to fix the problem you have.

 

[Damocles]

Exactly this!
They study for 5 years to get a university degree in IT and the only thing they ever tell you is to do that.
They generally never have any other ideas or clues on how to fix the problem you have.

This is because it's the simplest thing to try, that any user can do, and fixes 99% of all problems. It gets you back to what you were doing quicker than any other solution.

 

[TGR]

Exactly this!
They study for 5 years to get a university degree in IT and the only thing they ever tell you is to do that.
They generally never have any other ideas or clues on how to fix the problem you have.

This is because it's the simplest thing to try, that any user can do, and fixes 99% of all problems. It gets you back to what you were doing quicker than any other solution.

So what do they do for the other 4 years & 364 days of study?
As they only have 1% of all total problems to solve it can't really be that much - or can it?

 

[Damocles]

So what do they do for the other 4 years & 364 days of study?
As they only have 1% of all total problems to solve it can't really be that much - or can it?

They learn how to fix those 1% of problems that nobody else can fix and costs companies millions

 

[quiet_riot]

Exactly this!
They study for 5 years to get a university degree in IT and the only thing they ever tell you is to do that.
They generally never have any other ideas or clues on how to fix the problem you have.

This is because it's the simplest thing to try, that any user can do, and fixes 99% of all problems. It gets you back to what you were doing quicker than any other solution.

So what do they do for the other 4 years & 364 days of study?
As they only have 1% of all total problems to solve it can't really be that much - or can it?

Yep, because when people aren't phoning us with 'problems', we sit on our arses and definitely don't do housekeeping, server optimisation, etc etc.