It's been on a discussion on the spiceworks board for awhile. One man hit the nail on the head with this post.
Imagine buying, deploying, maintaining, repairing, and replacing a fleet of pc's for 100 of your relatives. Their skill ranges from Grandma's afraid to touch the machine to cousins installing the latest spyware from porn sites, to rocket jockeys who screw around in the bios to "make things faster". You know you'll get a phone call every 90 days from the Grandma when her password expires and she doesn't understand the concept of how to change it. The cousins punched some holes in the firewall so they can run internet DOOM, and now now one can get to the internet. The rocket jockey wants to know why the vpn software doesn't work on the virtual Ubuntu machine running in a virtual Mac running on a dual boot machine that he built from an image he downloaded from the net. The new owner wonders why you even exist because after all "his computer runs by itself".
The Finance department has one website for payroll that MUST USE IE6 and another website for taxes that MUST USE IE7. Enjoy.
You have no budget. You're expected to do stuff afterhours so you don't bother users, you don't get overtime, so you're expected to take comp time and your expected to be at work during business hours and you're expected to be on call 24x7x365
"My computer at home doesn't work so I can't remote in, can you come out and fix it?"
Teams of terrorist sponsored professional hackers have made it their duty to find ways of screwing up your network. Patching patching patching......always with the patching!
You know you're in charge when a user calls you to their desk to show you a MS Windows dialogue box that says "Contact your Network Administrator" and you realize that is you and you're on your own. Good Luck.
I thought it was good enough to share.
~Rico
lol I've never heard the phrase 24x7x365 before, particularly the "365" part.
...But this seems like a random thing to share with us.
Do you work as one of those people or something?
Actually my job is to read random other sites about jobs, research them at great length, and post quotes that most accurately describe them on this message board. Vector pays me in the blood of virgins, and with our user base? You're going to see a lot more of these.
~Rico... or Toby... whatever.
...THESE ALTS
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'm so sorry, having two accounts with the same last name must make it terribly hard for you to tell which is me and which isn't. I can always do something to make them scream for attention so you know they're me. Like make all my posts in ghastly yellow font.
~Rico
No copying my style!
Tha's how I roll.
Do you ever confuse yourself with these?
I like the bunny looking thing better. =3
Toby is Rico`s slave name.
and both accounts have avatars with my art in 'em. *sparkles*
i'd never have been able to take a job in I.T. oo; just keeping an eye on my family's computers has been enough over the years, with a total lack of knowledge to boot.
Taking out all my strict good or bad cliche characters. Toby is my best hero and Rico is my best villian. And get that /b/tard stuff outta my thread.
Also Becca art=yay!
~Rico
