h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

now that I have your attention, what Bloody Idiots do you have do deal with in your life? PLT, Mick

They call themselves IT Proffesionals and Sysadmins.

of yes and Radio 4 schedulers!

Agreed.

"They'd love it if we plastered cricket all over Radio 4, wouldn't they" enthused the schedulars, as they slapped each other on the back and had another sip of gin.

Only the next morning did they realise there was already a place for 'that kind of thing' - and they called it 'Radio 5'.

*sigh*.

the other thing that bugs me is the fact that today in parliament is no longer LW only so we only get half an hour of comedy at 11 O'clock.

Ahem - I agree partially, but it depends *which* IT professionals you're talking about.

Yesterday, my company 'let go' a recently hired MCSE-certified System Manager (a role I'd previously been covering, among other tasks) when it became apparent he really *was* a manager, rather than an engineer. by that, I mean that on the frequent occasions when there was a problem, or something he didn't immediately understand, his instinctive reaction was to call on me, ring for external tech support, or get in a consultant, rather than trying to fix or figure out things himself.
However, given what happened when he *did* try to fix stuff, that probably wasn't such a bad idea - that's why I'm at work all this weekend

On the bright side, the company has now been forced to recognise that competence is much more important than paper qualifications.

It's the perennial problem with being an engineer - you spend all your time preventing problems, and no-one notices. The only way to get any credit is to restrain yourself while someone else breaks things, and then heroically step in to rescue the company rather more publicly than usual.

Thy call themselvs docter and they have all the tact of a brick through the window.

Sorry, I know there are talented and usefull IT proffesionals out there but the majority are just a bunch of total cretins.

the Other Idiots are PC World Helpers who I Have a tendency to confuse, when just wandering around the store looking for nothing in particular they approach you and try to advise you about what your looking at at which point you pick them up on any mistakes they make and explain said item in more detail than they can.

Oh yes the other good one was to go over to the computer running a powerpoint presentation on about 20 monitors stacked around it closing ppt and setting a screen saver password turning of he f8 on boot function and setting the attributs of control.ini to system
before adding a line to win.ini to automaticaly start the default screen saver on starting windows and setting it's attrib's to system.

Now walk away whistling to yourself and watch from afar.

They're called the Board of Directors.

That was with reference to the original question - not PC World floorwalkers.

Oh yes and I almost forgot all the docters I have met have no tast in music eather.

I'm not being nasty or anything but where did you learn to spell?

Leve me alone I am dislexic Ok but I did also learn to spell in the dumps english people refer to as schools but are more like a party where people do maths and s**t.

That's a joke; right Bob? I dint lern too spel ether.. Peace, Bro...
PLT, Mick.
P.S. the goal is communication, don't sweat the punch you ayshun, we luv yu anyway, dude...

I was worried that joke was to complicated for some people. and agree conpleaty spelling, punctuation and that dont matter as long as it can be understood