A problem of type 2094 has occurred.
I walked over to a co-worker’s desk to mention something I’d seen online that related to a conversation we’d had yesterday (a sale price at Macy’s on KitchenAid stand mixers, in case you’re curious), and she turned around with this look of abject, computer-related panic. It was that,
“I’ve deleted the file?
I’ve deleted ALL the files?
I’ve deleted the INTERNET?!
But I don’t even have a modem!”
look, y’know?
And I stopped dead and asked in a calm voice, “OK, what happened?”
“I went to click on a file, and somehow I double clicked, and then it was gone!”
“What happened when you clicked it?”
“It... I don’t know, it sort of moved, and then it was gone! And I don’t know where it is or how I’m going to find it and and and...!”
“Was it a file, or a folder?”
“A folder.”
And I clicked to see folder details, checked the folder with the most recent edit date, and poof, magically reappearing file; she’d accidentally dragged the folder she wanted into a different folder. I’m just glad it was on her C: drive instead of the network; I’ve seen on more than one occasion an entire company shut down for hours at a shot because someone accidentally dragged the entire network folder into a different folder.
And can I just say that it drives me nuts that so many people open their files from inside Word? You can’t maneuver like that! She was trying to figure out how to move the folder back out of the wrong folder once I’d found it, and I pointed out that you can’t really do that; you have to do it from Explorer.
Anyway... I’m a big geek. I remain the person that people go to before they go to IT, and depending on the IT staff member that’s around at any given time, I’m the person they go to INSTEAD of going to IT.
Why the heck don’t I just go into IT?
Because the hours suck, that’s why.
Pay’s pretty good, though, innit?