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**IronWarLeg**

Alfndrate wrote:
IronWarLeg wrote:
Kind of on topic: I used to work IT support for the Washington State Patrol when I was younger, and naturally because I was the new guy I was on the graveyard shift. As is common in such environments, we often played practical jokes on each other, and the most heated was between my unit (front line tech support for the troopers) and the folks upstairs who handled the servers and in house stuff.

After a couple times of coming in to a tin foiled console or other things I decided to take it upon myself to go upstairs, gather every keyboard from their office I could find, and proceed to re arrange the keys from QWERTY to alphabetical order I got really good at popping the keys off of keyboards. Some people just left it that way, others were a bit upset but I thought it was hilarious...

I had a similar thing happen to me when I went away on vacation for a week while in university. I didn't have a password on my computer because at the time I had nothing of importance on my computer, so my roommate, and my best friend (whom worked in our school's IT department with me) came in, logged into my computer and did the following to my computer:
1) Changed the Language from English to Mandarin Chinese
2) Created folders of various types of pron on my desktop, created a screenshot and used that as the background of my computer (so when I tried to delete it, I'd freak out about not being able to get rid of things like, "furry pron"
3) Changed my screen saver to a man lounging on his side, nude
4) Downloaded 2 programs one of women and one of men where they would basically strip for you just above your task bar.

I had everything fixed in like 30 minutes, but when I tried to upgrade form XP to Vista on that system, I apparently hadn't changed everything back from Mandarin... all of my installers for that were still in Chinese, no matter how I tried to get rid of it... Fethers...

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pretre wrote:
Do people in IT still look at their keyboard?

There are still plenty of hunt and peck keyboard typists out there, and some of them work in the IT field... so, yeah :-\

I am a hybrid hunt and peck type, I don't do the typical with just your pointer fingers, I use everything except my left pinky lol but I type faster than most still (used to really piss of my typing teacher in school when I was consistently the fastest "typer" in class)

For all the IT folks, a classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU

**VermGho5t**

Da Boss wrote:
I've called IT when my projector doesn't work to have them come in, walk directly to the computer, push a plug in slightly, nod, and leave.

Twice.

This has happened to me SO MANY TIMES at work. It is better to just say nothing and let them believe or start to believe that you REALLY ARE the magician you claim to be.

#add 1m
#accept

**pretre**

VermGho5t wrote:
It is better to just say nothing and let them believe or start to believe that you REALLY ARE the magician you claim to be.

Oblig

Spoiler:

**Super Ready**

Wolfstan wrote:
something wrong with her pc (wasnt able to explain it to me) wants to speak to an engineer

...is this EXACTLY what it said? I'd be having words with the manager of that desk. Worth noting - I currently work on one of these desks myself.

Whatever the reason for such astounding lack of effort in this call - high volumes, being under pressure, sheer laziness (the lack of any attempt at grammar tells me it's the latter) - it shouldn't be your responsibility to pick up the slack.

*Rant over* whew. Most entertaining I think was the time we had to tell one of the actual agents here on my team (rest assured, they didn't make it past probation) what the difference was between a PC and its monitor...

**dementedwombat**

Yep, I've rotated my screen somehow in my computer history...no idea how. It's not the normal shortcut on my laptop. I had to google "rotate monitor display" with my screen offset 90 degrees. Using the trackpad was a bloody mess I can say that right now.

Also accidentally put firefox in fullscreen a couple times. That's like one of the function keys down on the far end of the keyboard where mortals fear to tread.

Also I never learned how to type. I just use the first two fingers on both hands, and I look at the keyboard while I'm doing it, but I don't think I actually need to, just force of habit.