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I now believe in what Forest Gump said when he said stupid is stupid does. So today I get back to the office from being out in the field today. At work I am the unofficial on site Computer MIS/IT guy. Not cuz I want to but because I can and know how, so I just do it. So I walk in to the back room where the modem and Cisco router switch is. I see this new cat 5 drop going down the wall to the work station for my co-worker ED. I ask what this wire is for and I am told by the office girl that Ed's computer will not get on the Internet, but other than that it seems fine. I ask if he can see the gateway and Ed replies that it is on the wall. I say OK. I mean can you ping it or can you see your network settings or does the computer say network connection disconnected. All he can tell me is IE can not display the websites. So he thinks by having one of my installers make him a new cable this will fix the problem. It does not. So he goes home and get his lab top and gets on the internet with the old cat 5 and the new one as well. This was just today. So since Thursday of last week he has been with out internet and makes no attempt to bring it to my attention. Knowing that his lab top works and all other computers in the office are working Ed comes to the conclusion that someone has F'ed with his computer when he went to the bathroom last Thursday. So as I have been told this, I think to my self, "What ever". So he calls the owner of the company today who is out on vacation up in Washington and has a tizzy fit on the phone all about how he can't get on the internet to chat and check email. Keep in mind Ed is like 53 years old. And dumb as a door nail. I ask If I can sit at his computer and check a few things. He does not say anything. So I just sit down and power off his computer. After it re-boots I connect right to the internet with no problems. I surf around for like a minute and I now have it fixed. So for like 6 days the MORON had never turned it off and back on to re-boot it. I tell him it is fixed and he calls the owner of the company to let him know that I was the one who F'ed with his computer baised on the 5 minutes it took to fix it and got it fixed on the first try. So I must of had first hand knowledge of what the problem was. And do I even get a Thank you, NO! Instead I get blamed for his less than 2% knowledge on how a computer works.
I hate people that can not except personal responsibility for there own actions and blame everybody possible for there own stupidness. So next time he asks for a favor I guess I will be too busy to be the nice guy again. ;D
I hate people that can not except personal responsibility for there own actions and blame everybody possible for there own stupidness. So next time he asks for a favor I guess I will be too busy to be the nice guy again. ;D