I hate computers, and especially the tecchies that 'run' them

[tjwmason]

The twits who comprise the I.T. folks in my company decided that it would be a splendid idea to move all of the servers to the other office up north.

This is fine by itself, but for the entire day the connexion has been slower than using a carrier pigeon. The finance thingy programme which I use operates directly off one of these servers, thus I have spent most of the day shouting at my computer. It has been happening intermittently ever since they moved the wretched things, but not for more than 5 or 10 minutes at a time - this has been going on for 7 hours now.

Double-entry hand written book-keeping with hand written cheques would have been quicker.

I hate computers, and they hate me too.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Methinks the link between the two buildings is half-assed

What is it? Optic fiber? Wireless?

Mealsothinks the big bosses stay at the other building. Am I right?

[tjwmason]

2. Methinks the big bosses are less computer literate than a dead corpse

And even get their secretaries to send e-mails for them.

I've no idea what the link is, the internet connexion is fast (which is what I do for most of the time - naughty me); but not the link for the administration programme.

[MindPilot]

3. Speaking as one of those "twits"...

Don't blame us...we simply do what we're told. Just as most CEOs have never worked a day in their lives, I believe most CIOs have never seen a computer.

They make these grand plans and expect us to implement them with no budget in a completely unreasonable time frame. Then they expect the problems their untennable scheme created to be corrected magically behind the scenes.

In my company each one of us desktop techs are supporting over 400 users. Sales and Marketing has a virtually unlimited budget, but when Suzy in Accounting needs forty bucks for a memory upgrade so she doesn't crash the spreadsheet three times a day, mangement screams POVERTY!

So the bottom line is I don't have time to respond to your whiny-assed complaints about network performance and there is nothing I can do about it anyway. Insult somebody who can do something about it.

[tjwmason]

9. I didn't know that you worked for my company

I merely referred to those here as twits. As you're in California, by definition that excludes you.

It would be most helpful if you were to see what is actually being said before responding.

[entanglement]

4. Its not as simple as you think

On one hand, you have overworked tech staff, tech-ignorant bosses who want instant results, impatient users and limited budgets. On the other hand, techies are not exactly known for their communication skills and that causes a lot of trouble. On the whole, I'd side with the techies, its usually a between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place situation for them.

[tjwmason]

6. I never said it was simple

My brother-in-law is a software engineer, and I'm not totally technologically illiterate.

However, I also know which departments have been given extra staff, extra money &c. (e.g. I.T.), and which have been given fewer staff and less money (finance).

I also know that their hard-place is largely self-created - because of the unique circumstances of the company.

[miss_kitty]

5. outsourcing the servers to foreign parts then, eh?

Just WAIT until you have to talk to one of the northern techs on the phone and you have to decipher what they're saying through broad Mancunian accents!
:evilgrin:

[tjwmason]

7. My boss is up there

I can understand the accent, but it's so flat and monotonous that I'm practically asleep before he's said anything.

[Heidi]

8. Techies are our friends, tjwmason.

It's not their fault that management wants them to perform miracles with little or no financing. (Management wants the same thing from you, right?) It's better to nicely let the IT folks know what a clusterf*ck the system has become and the havoc it is creating for _ customers _ , rather than bitchin' about how it's affecting us personally in our jobs. Customers = cash flow.