Have you seen those commercials for CDW? They are also on the radio...very funny.

"Ummm, Fred, I opened that virus, just like you told us not to."

"I sent out an email about email being down."

"Fred, I just promised everyone remote access. What is remote access?"

For those who work in IT, what is your craziest story about end users?

I'll start...I used to teach courses in Windows, Office, OS/2 and lots of others. Well, I was teaching an entry level Windows 3.11 course and I swear to God...a person picks up the mouse, points it at the screen and clicks it like an mf'ing REMOTE CONTROL!

Needless to say, I almost fell over laughing...!

 

I have probably a million of these stories, however the one that takes the cake (or maybe brownie) is this one.

When I was in university and doing some Co-op work at at hospital IT dept, I got a call from a nurse saying the computer in the Dr's lounge is on fire and it smells horrible can I come down and have a look.

Needless to say I ran my butt off getting down to the Dr's lounge to check this out. I start down the long corridor and I start smelling this semi sweet, mixed with burning plastic and circuitry.

I get to the lounge and its horrid, smoke is everywhere. I grab the extinguisher but I don't see any flames.

Open the case and there is a huge melted baggy, "grass like substance" and a package of rolling papers.

No one knew how that got in there, and they were in complete shock that some evil person could put such contraband into the Dr's lounge and sully their fine reputation.

Talk about for Medicinal use......

 

Kinda related, I got a call from a user who was having problems with her Point of sale system. She explained to me that she was narcoleptic, and if she got nervous, she would fall asleep. Half way through walking her through some checking of settings, I don't get any responsse from her. After 2 minutes of silence, a co-worker of hers comes on the line, and says "ehhhhhh, she'll have to call you back, she fell asleep". Guess I made her nervous.

Oh, and by the way, my name is Fed, but almost everybody calls me Fred, and I do work in the IT department.

 

this was just kinda funny.. to me anyway.. anyone remeber or heard of the Anna Kornicova email virus.. just gets emailed to you in ms outlook.. it was disguised as revealing pic of her, if you open it.. it sends the same thing out to everyone in your mailbox and floods the email system..

so you could tell who opened it by who your gettin the anna kornikova emails from.. haha.. so you could tell who all the office pedaphiles and ladies w/ lesbian tendancies were.. including the front office secretary thats a match up i'd like to see

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Insomniak
[B]this was just kinda funny.. to me anyway.. anyone remeber or heard of the Anna Kornicova email virus.. just gets emailed to you in ms outlook.. it was disguised as revealing pic of her, if you open it.. it sends the same thing out to everyone in your mailbox and floods the email system..

 

Here's my personal best:

I had a user call and tell me her keyboard was busted because it kept putting "all these funny characters on the screen". Everytime I went back there it was fine. After several trips to investigate the keyboard, I asked her if I could watch her work.

Well, it turns out that this very well endowed lady was farsighted and everytime she leaned forward to look at the screen her tits would rest on the keyboard! I died laughing and had to tell her...

 

I work in the IT dept for a company with about 180 internet users. We have a relatively sophisticated firewall and tracking system in place. The system does not block access to any sites, but it does log all sites that have been visited. At the end of every month, we sort the records by searching on keywords ie (Job, xxx, naked...) now we have a suprisingly long list of perverts and people who are looking for jobs elsewhere. Unless the site is particulary bad, or the number of visits is exceptionally many, we let it go, but it is funny to read the list. One particular gentleman had logged about 650 visits to a porno site during ONE month and we questioned him about it...his response was that some made it is homepage, and he did not know how to change it...when we checked his homepage, it was not that site, and to this he replied that he just learned how to change his homepage that morning. Since then, he has been caught two more times...He still visits the site even though he knows we are watching...what a pervert!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by saliv8
[B]Here's my personal best:

I had a user call and tell me her keyboard was busted because it kept putting "all these funny characters on the screen".

 

Hahahaha!!

Okay, okay. This lady I work with doesn't know how to print... anything. Whenever she wants to print, she hits the Print Screen key and prays it works. No matter how many times I show her, she still uses that damn key.

 

i think the best is the laptop sticky and reeking of coffee and the associate who claims she doesn't know why the pc isn't working...it just stopped....yeah after you spilled your coffee all over it.