IT Genius!!

[bunyip]

We had an upgrade done on our work computers a few days ago, were told the system would be down for 15 minutes, complete blackout for 24 hours and when it did come back on we had no email.
I came in a day later and found a back way into the system through the company website and accessed the email and reinstalled it at our site.
Opened the email account and found that IT had realised that the email was missing so sent out an email to each site on how to reinstall it.
Where would we be without such people!

 

[flyerdan]

Well they obviously learned from the people who'd send out DVD players with a DVD telling how to install it.

 

[hawkeye08]

Welcome to world of Windows wanna be system administrators, where everything can be done with a click or 2 of the mouse.

 

[cqaigy2]

Another email story.

We went to cloud provider for email. Internet went down because of a fiber outage. My boss said to send email to apprise our customers of the situation........

 

[RNeumann]

We had an upgrade done on our work computers a few days ago, were told the system would be down for 15 minutes, complete blackout for 24 hours and when it did come back on we had no email.
I came in a day later and found a back way into the system through the company website and accessed the email and reinstalled it at our site.
Opened the email account and found that IT had realised that the email was missing so sent out an email to each site on how to reinstall it.
Where would we be without such people!

Probably not “posting” about such issues on the interweb........

 

[Industrial Toys]

I know a good friend who is an IT manager for a Big Pharma. He confessed that if his systems ever went down, he wouldn't even know how to get them up again. Isn't that reasuring?

 

[vvanders]

On the flip side if your IT people are on the ball you'll never notice them at all. It's not a business I'd like to be in, high profile when you mess up and unnoticed when you do everything right.

 

[aczlan]

On the flip side if your IT people are on the ball you'll never notice them at all. It's not a business I'd like to be in, high profile when you mess up and unnoticed when you do everything right.

Yep, you should never see the IT people when things are going well.

Aaron Z

 

[TMGT]

Yep, you should never see the IT people when things are going well.

Aaron Z

"When you've done things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

- Futurama's space "God"

 

[MossRoad]

I spent over 25 years in I.T. One person (one of the owner's of the company), would often tell us how happy he was with the way I.T. operations were handled. Other than that, no one would ever just call up to say how satisfied they were with I.T. related issues. The only conversations about that were when something wasn't functioning correctly (human or computer, human 96% of the time).

As for I.T. managers in large corporations, they should not be expected to know how to get their systems going if they fail. That's not the function of the I.T. manager in a large corp.

 

[aczlan]

As for I.T. managers in large corporations, they should not be expected to know how to get their systems going if they fail. That's not the function of the I.T. manager in a large corp.

Exactly, they should know who to call to get things back up ASAP, but an effective IT manager in a large corp should be more of a project/people manager than a a hands on "I can fix it all" person.

Aaron Z

 

[riptides]

No one ever thanks the power company when they flip their lights on.

 

[MossRoad]

No one ever thanks the power company when they flip their lights on.

You pay for electricity. Most employees don't pay for I.T. services at their job.

 

[4570Man]

You pay for electricity. Most employees don't pay for I.T. services at their job.

Someone is getting paid to do it though. The employees don’t pay for their share of electric at their job either.

 

[bunyip]

There is a lot of friction in the IT dept, several of the workers are Indian and the top man is a lowerr caste than the rest, the caste system is still alive and well.

 

[MossRoad]

There is a lot of friction in the IT dept, several of the workers are Indian and the top man is a lowerr caste than the rest, the caste system is still alive and well.

Yikes!

 

[mark02tj]

There is a lot of friction in the IT dept, several of the workers are Indian and the top man is a lowerr caste than the rest, the caste system is still alive and well.

I did a pretty large project 2 years ago where the customer brought in two Indian guys to "help" me. They were from 2 different parts of India and I also observed the caste system to a certain degree - although it wasn't really discussed.

Something else that I thought was interesting is that they spoke to each other in English. I asked them one day if they did that just for my benefit. Turns out that they both speak different languages in their home areas of India, so if they were speaking to each other in India it would have been in English.

 

[cqaigy2]

I did a pretty large project 2 years ago where the customer brought in two Indian guys to "help" me. They were from 2 different parts of India and I also observed the caste system to a certain degree - although it wasn't really discussed.

Something else that I thought was interesting is that they spoke to each other in English. I asked them one day if they did that just for my benefit. Turns out that they both speak different languages in their home areas of India, so if they were speaking to each other in India it would have been in English.

I've heard, India is quit the polyglot nation.

 

[Oaktree]

There is a lot of friction in the IT dept, several of the workers are Indian and the top man is a lowerr caste than the rest, the caste system is still alive and well.

Curiously, how do they tell what caste another person belongs to? Wouldn't it be easy just to fib about it, especially if you were in a different country?

 

[bunyip]

Different appearance?
When I was in vietnam I couldn't tell the difference between north and south but they could.