"Where did the internet go?"

[DanTMWTMP]

so people like these still exists in the workforce?

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170798&cid=14228488

I found it hard to believe as well, until I started my most recent job (from pure software to "everything and the kitchen sink")...

I intially started giving new PCs Firefox with Google as the homepage, as most people I knew preferred it that way.

People complained loudly, wondering where the "internet" had gone.

So I started changing the FireFox icon to MSIE's icon. Still didn't help much...

I finally realized that everyone wanted MSN as their home page.

Unbelievable, but it made all the complaints go away... people even like FireFox, as long as I set the homepage to MSN for them.

I just don't get it. if you want prepackaged ad-heavy content thrown at you, why not just watch TV? Well, I suppose people can't watch TV at work, whereas they can justify a few trips to a "legitimate" site such as MSN a few times a day.

I myself have yet to experience stuff this bad, as all the coworkers i've experienced were all pretty well versed themselves in normal internet surfing...

Anyone else have anything similar happen to themselves?

 

[Rami7007]

I love the "Where is my internet?!?!?!"

They need to learn to love FireFox!

 

[MisterJackson]

"I'm a fox and I'm on fire!"

 

[GeekDrew]

<sigh> Employees at a previous job I held threw a fit when I changed the default homepage from MSN to our Corporate home page... administration sent out a memo, basically telling them to get over it.

Meanwhile, the corporate home page is redesigned, and now uses Flash, Java, and god-knows-what-else, and takes forever to load. The default homepage was switched to Google, and the employees complained again. This time *I* told them to get over it.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

I love how people will flip out over some of the littlest things.

 

[AreaCode707]

Please open req 0088991133.

Let me dissect this for you.

"Please open" = I obviously don't know the most very basic part of my job or I'd know that I can open this myself in two clicks without having to wait for you to get to my request in the queue.

Req 0099991133 = A req number is 5 digits and again, anyone knowing the very basics of their job in this circumstance would know where to find it on the page. This? This is 9 digits. It's the org unit number, printed so unbelievably small and out of the way that nobody should be able to mistake it.

Please (do what I can do myself) on req (provide the completely incorrect type of information.)

So, requestor = t3h idiot. And he was one of the team managers.

 

[pontifex]

there's this one guy where i work who used a shared printer for years. we decided to get him his own printer one day. we get the printer and something wasn't right with it so he wasn't able to use it. you should have heard the bitching and moaning this guy did. "i'm going to the owner and telling him about this crap." "i'm not walking over to that other printer." that other printer was maybe 10 feet away from his office.

 

[Eeezee]

People like that definitely do exist. My last workplace was full of them - I did IT for a university athletics center with 200+ employees. Very, very few of them were well-versed in browsing the internet. In fact, many of them were downright stupid...

 

[DrPizza]

Been there. Seen it.

But, I hate the reverse. We get some new piece of software, or upgraded software, and I have to sit through a training session on it.
A couple of the new applications were web based. The trainer would walk past my station and freak out because I have 10 different windows open. I'd get a "no, no, no, do it my way, don't do anything else either while we're working on this." *sigh*
I'd like to say to the trainer:
1. You're going wayyyy slower than what is dictated for my ability, in fact, a chimp can learn at the rate you're going.
2. I've already found 10 features that I doubt you're going to train us to use, and won't have time to show us anyway.
3. I've already figured out the next 5 things that logically you're going to show us to use. I'm way ahead of you buddy.
4. One of these windows *is* right where everyone else is, just in case.
5. Quit closing my windows on me. While you're busy helping the people who can't figure out how to log in, despite telling them the retarded password of newyears is typed in as one word (and all of them are typing in a space and can't get it to work), I'm keeping myself from being bored.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

My favorite is our new dell monitors that have the button to switch between analog and dvi, it's like nails grated on a blackboard when I hear "My computer won't turn on..." these days.

It's also grand when someone complains that they need new speakers, because they get a strange noise every 5-10min that sounds like morse code, and they are then flabergasted when I tell them to turn their cell phones off or move them further from thier speakers.

 

[Zenmervolt]

My personal favorite: "This error is particularly prevalent at night." That was the entire E-mail, no screen shot. The subject was "Help!".

Runners up:

"User is getting a red error." (Again, the entire E-mail. They didn't even mention what user, let alone what the hell a "red error" is.)
On some issues we need to know a user's NT login name. 80% of the time they send us their password. (Network security must not be one of the things in their performance eval.)

ZV

 

[Leper Messiah]

I swear, I've changed this one teacher's novell login password six times today. How the fvck did they get my cell phone number?

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
"I'm a fox and I'm on fire!"

omg h4x