Bad IT people

Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:57 PM by CumpsD
First of all, sorry for not posting much lately. It's a very busy time, I just finished working for a month, gonna buy a new laptop, a Dell.

Didn't have that much time (and energy) to do much computer related things, and if I did something it wasn't worth blogging about it (and yes, I usually set my standards pretty high :p)

But here is a little teaser, a small list I gathered some years ago, all based on true events:

Bad IT people:
  • Can not press CTRL-ALT-DEL properly
  • Lose their command prompt
  • Can not configure their e-mail client
  • Do not understand <form>
  • Can not put RAM in the right memory banks
  • Do not understand https://
  • Can not install & configure IIS
  • Deny that Google is the best search engine
  • Can not use command line 'ftp'
  • Do not understand what dual-boot means
  • Can not open a .pdf file
  • Forget to check the power supply on failure
  • Can not use MS Excel
  • Believe that MSN is the only IM
  • Do not know the difference between their LAN IP and external IP
  • Are scared when their cpu load is at 100%
  • Do not know what extensions are
  • Put their pencil in a pc cooler
  • Believe that Hotmail is a program
  • Can not see extensions
  • Destroy their mobo and CPU by installing a printer
  • Do not know what their source code is
  • Can not open unknown files
  • Burn 1.8Mb on a 700MB CDR
  • Do not known what a proxy is
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# re: Bad IT people

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:04 PM by Jochen

I even know much of this stuff... And I'm not even an IT-er... SHAME ON THEM!!

# re: Bad IT people

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:11 PM by foo

Yeah, I know lots of "IT" people that can't understand what a LAN IP is... Sigh...

And RAM. That's so funny. We used to have a guy here that didn't understand the concept of LOW DENSITY SDRAM. Loser.

# re: Bad IT people

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:42 PM by Damian

* Can't spell "lose" when posting to a blog or message board.

# re: Bad IT people

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:45 PM by David Cumps

:p "are not native english speakers"

# RE: Bad IT people

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:07 PM by don@ghostdev.ca (Don Newman)

After "Destroy their mobo and CPU by installing a printer" I'm going to be picturing somebody trying to install a printer internally for days . When I first read about the Ctrl-Alt-Del I thought you were being picky about HOW they did it, which Ctrl and Alt keys and what fingers, but then realized you mean either hitting the wrong keys or hitting Del first. I just take for granted that anyone using a computer more than a week has picked up on most of this stuff, but for an IT person to not know it makes me wonder what kind of favors they had to do to get the job.

# re: Bad IT people

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:28 PM by Darren Oakey

"Believe that MSN is the only IM"

hmm... I believe MSN is the only IM [that matters]. Does that make me a bad IT person? :)

# re: Bad IT people

Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:31 PM by David Cumps

no, because you added the [ ] part :)

The ctrl-alt-del went something like this: position your 3 fingers in the air above the right buttons and then in a millisecond put them down, hopinh they will hit ctrl alt del simultaniously, repeat if it didn't, i saw them repeat it 6 times :p

# re: Bad IT people

Friday, August 27, 2004 10:53 PM by BertG

Can not shutdown a windows XP computer in 5 blind! keypresses :p

# re: Bad IT people

Saturday, August 28, 2004 3:14 PM by David Cumps

I believe it's 4 keypresses here?
Win - Arrow Up - Enter - Enter
(if Shutdown is the default option in the dropdown :))