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BabyAvocado
Happy New Year
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PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
your personal IT Tech. 
Believe it or not, we actually get paid to know the stuff we know and fix the problems we fix.
So when someone expects you to fix their problems with their home computer for free, it's a little insulting, and frankly, shouldn't be done on company time either. I work for the company...not for you.
Just a little vent. That is all. 
P.S. Just to clarify - I am more than happy to offer free computer advice (3, 4, 28 times a day) but when you bring in your daughter's laptop from home and pull me aside pretending like you have an actual work related computer problem and ask me to fix it - well, I have a BIG problem with that. I also have a problem with you coming into my office, plopping yourself down and taking up 1/2 hr of my time discussing everything that went wrong when your stupid arse decided to install Vista on your home PC.
Ok. Vent is really over now.
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luvsun27
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Kim
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Does this go for family also, because my dad calls me all the time 
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| Posted 3/6/07 3:26 PM |
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Kate
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Member since 5/05 7557 total posts
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Kate
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
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Blazesyth
*yawn*
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Thank you......
I've trained the familiy to not ask me questions; problem is it is not so easy to train the coworkers.
RTFM!!!!
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| Posted 3/6/07 3:29 PM |
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Lisa
I'm a PANK!!!
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Professional Aunts No Kids
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
are you my husband??
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| Posted 3/6/07 3:29 PM |
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baghag
:P
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
ITA.
That used to happen to the IT guy here. Some idiot brought in his PLAYSTATION for him to fix. 
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| Posted 3/6/07 3:30 PM |
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SweetestOfPeas
J'taime Paris!
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
my sister & BIL can relate to you! they get calls from everyone when they have computer issues
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| Posted 3/6/07 3:30 PM |
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CowgirlChick97
Nike. Just do it.
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Brianna
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
they do this to my bro and husband all the time........they work at the same place and they are IT-ppl bring their kids comps in...its like WTS??
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| Posted 3/6/07 3:39 PM |
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Stacey1403
Where it all began....
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Posted by Lisa
are you my husband??
Mine too
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| Posted 3/6/07 3:40 PM |
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greenfreak
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Member since 9/06 11483 total posts
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greenfreak
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Thank you. I don't know what it is that makes people think because you know about computers, that you are fair game.
I put a stop to that years ago when someone who was never that nice to me brought in her pc without asking. I made sure, in no uncertain terms, that she knew where I stood on it.
I thought you might like these, I posted them in our kitchen at work:
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| Posted 3/6/07 4:16 PM |
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nrthshgrl
It goes fast. Pay attention.
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Yes but I traded my IT department free weekends in Manhattan - so I'd say we're square.
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| Posted 3/6/07 4:18 PM |
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Superkat
More a stranger than a friend
Member since 5/06 9730 total posts
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K
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Greeny is the ult IT chick. Totally love the Dilbert.
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| Posted 3/6/07 4:20 PM |
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Bxgell2
Perfection
Member since 5/05 16438 total posts
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Beth
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Dh deals with this all the time, especially on weekends. His firm calls so freakin' often, on our home phone, that now, when I pick up when he's gone, I know most of them by name 
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| Posted 3/6/07 4:21 PM |
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greenfreak
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Member since 9/06 11483 total posts
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greenfreak
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Posted by Superkat
Greeny is the ult IT chick. Totally love the Dilbert.
I used to have a really great collection, for every occasion.
I should say that I am constantly providing support to my immediate family, and I want it that way. Nothing worse than fixing someone else's mistake. I've reconfigured everyone's computer from scratch at least once, if not 2 or 3 times.
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| Posted 3/6/07 4:24 PM |
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dpli
Daylight savings :)
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D
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
DH does IT work and gets the family computer questions, I get the math homework questions.
How do your co-workers not see that this is not work related? I think it is part of the challenge of municipal work (you have a govt. job, right?)
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| Posted 3/6/07 4:24 PM |
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BabyAvocado
Happy New Year
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Posted by greenfreak
Thank you. I don't know what it is that makes people think because you know about computers, that you are fair game.
I put a stop to that years ago when someone who was never that nice to me brought in her pc without asking. I made sure, in no uncertain terms, that she knew where I stood on it.
I thought you might like these, I posted them in our kitchen at work:
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Would it be bad if I posted them on my office door?
I knew you'd appreciate this.
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| Posted 3/6/07 4:25 PM |
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JodiBabe
Married for 9 yrs!!!!!!
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Jodi
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
I LOVE IT!!!! Working in the I.T. I had to show it to a co-worker & we were laughing soooooo hard!!!!
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| Posted 3/6/07 4:36 PM |
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Blazesyth
*yawn*
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
When I have a password complainer I give them this.
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| Posted 3/6/07 4:38 PM |
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JennCo
My greatest joy is my baby boy
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
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MrsPorkChop
Twinning!!
Member since 5/05 9941 total posts
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Missy
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
when i send him $90 scotch he BECOMES my personl IT guy
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| Posted 3/6/07 4:44 PM |
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Beth
The Key to your new home....
Member since 2/06 24849 total posts
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Beth
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
I guess I'm lucky- b/c when I asked the it guy at my job a question- he offered to fix my personal computer-
we do eat lunch together everyday and I did return the favor and get him a blender for free
but I would never expect it
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| Posted 3/6/07 5:03 PM |
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greenfreak
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Member since 9/06 11483 total posts
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greenfreak
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Posted by Blazesyth
When I have a password complainer I give them this.
That's almost exactly our password policy. Except its even more stringent than that.
I had someone complain that we were enforcing a password protected screensaver on all computers (after 15 minutes idle).
I turned to him, in front of everyone in the meeting, and told him that I have to lock my computer every time I get up from my desk in addition to using at least 15 different passwords that don't have words in them (gasp!) on a daily basis so he will get NO sympathy from me.
You know what... If you're not smart enough to remember one password after a weekend has passed, maybe you shouldn't be working for this company.
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| Posted 3/6/07 6:27 PM |
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GoldenRod
10 years on LIF!
Member since 11/06 26792 total posts
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
Posted by greenfreak
Posted by Blazesyth
When I have a password complainer I give them this.
That's almost exactly our password policy. Except its even more stringent than that.
I had someone complain that we were enforcing a password protected screensaver on all computers (after 15 minutes idle).
I turned to him, in front of everyone in the meeting, and told him that I have to lock my computer every time I get up from my desk in addition to using at least 15 different passwords that don't have words in them (gasp!) on a daily basis so he will get NO sympathy from me.
You know what... If you're not smart enough to remember one password after a weekend has passed, maybe you shouldn't be working for this company.
BTDT with most of these posts! I've trained most people that I don't fix everyone's PC anymore. At work, we can't bring stuff into the building, so I don't have people dropping off PCs in my office, but I do get lots of questions. Most are simple enough, and the people are nice, so I don't mind, but no more manual labor.
I've done the password comment, too. I remind people that for every password they have, I have the same type of user password, and admin-type account password and username, and usually a server-specific username and password. PLUS, I'm involved in almost every system in the company, not the small handful they are in.... that usually shuts them up for a while.... 
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Chrisnamy
Summer is coming soon
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Amy
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
I feel your pain!
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JennZ
MY LIFE!!
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Re: PSA: Your company's IT guy/girl is not
OMG my DH biggest complaint, I think he could have wrote this.
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