Bad IT people

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

6 Comments

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

  • Yeah, I know lots of &quot;IT&quot; 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.

  • * Can't spell &quot;lose&quot; when posting to a blog or message board.

  • After &quot;Destroy their mobo and CPU by installing a printer&quot; 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.

  • &quot;Believe that MSN is the only IM&quot;



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

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

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