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I used to work a little bit of IT-support for my city and this made me have flashbacks.
Another stereotype besides the techbro is the graphic designer gal.
Regards we once drove through the city to plug her scanner in... after we prodigiously made her make sure all the wires are connected.
Not exactly the same level of issue but it's just something I'll never forget. And nowadays it would be a completely understandable mistake to make, as USB's can actually power things. But not in 2006, lol.
Oh heck. I can't recall the number of times someone, even myself, has driven significant distances just to plug things in because users are to much of window lickers to understand what a USB cable looks like half the time.
One of the funniest that I still regularly encounter is people who power cycle their monitor to reboot their computer. Not realizing that the monitor isn't the computer itself....
I mean, the list goes on and on and on for this kind of stupid shit. The kicker is that if you even fucking try to make them slightly less goddamned stupid about this shit, they don't want to hear it.
You'll be taking at them and you might as well be taking to the fucking wall for all the good it will do.
And you also have to manage politely telling them how silly they've been.
Once got a ticket for "a broken DVD-drive". Went on over. 'Twas a CD-drive.
"Well what was the issue, why didn't my DVD-drive work?"
"Well if you look real close, this is actually a CD drive and thus incapable of reading DVDs"
She took it well enough with humour. Some don't..
I had to explain to someone today that, though you can print through someone's PC to their USB printer, you cannot run the scanner software and connect the same way. So scanning no worky from another computer.
We have print servers, but we don't have scan servers. Why is that?
Anyway, I don't think they believed me.
The fun part is that the printer has Ethernet, and if they plugged that in, both systems would be able to print and scan.... What a crazy idea!
But the bossman didn't think it was going to be possible to plug in the printer to the network without wifi.... Idk, I'm not there, I don't know what color the walls in your office are, nevermind being able to coach you on how to plug in a device I've never seen to a network I equally haven't seen.
Maybe people should ask their IT people if it's a good idea to buy a printer when they have these kinds of operational requirements....