Two boring work stories
This first story was originally more detailed but two sentences in it had already bored me half to death and I honestly didn't think I could make it to the end. To cut it short:
Something broke.
The guy who came to fix it blamed me and sent a snotty e-mail to the management after he'd 'fixed' it.
Only it turned out that he hadn't fixed it at all and the broken thing was something he was directly responsible for and had completely overlooked.
Writing the e-mail informing everyone of that was by far the most satisfying thing I've done this month.
Another woman here at work somehow managed to corrupt her PC's registry a few days ago (v nasty fault, complete reinstallation required although all her data remains intact and is recoverable). She's one of those people who draws computer faults to her like moths to a flame; We gave her a replacement PC whilst we worked on hers and in 30 minutes she'd managed to corrupt her e-mail profile and somehow lose all her network settings. Anyway, when her PC came back the leader of our team recovered all her data and then gave me her PC to rebuild. I asked him "You sure you've got everything?" before wiping the drive and reinstalling. 30 minutes after we return it she phones up, "I can't find any of my e-mail personal folders?". I check "Did you not keep them on a server somewhere?". Obviously she did not. Turns out the team leader forgot to back those up and we wiped them ("Although obviously we gave her the 'Sorry they were lost in the crash, you really should back-up you know...'")
This amuses me greatly for two reasons. Firstly she lost 2 years worth of e-mails because she didn't bother backing them up. Secondly because it was completely my team leader's fault and he tries so hard to be better than everyone else. Other people's misery is the highlight of my working day.
Something broke.
The guy who came to fix it blamed me and sent a snotty e-mail to the management after he'd 'fixed' it.
Only it turned out that he hadn't fixed it at all and the broken thing was something he was directly responsible for and had completely overlooked.
Writing the e-mail informing everyone of that was by far the most satisfying thing I've done this month.
Another woman here at work somehow managed to corrupt her PC's registry a few days ago (v nasty fault, complete reinstallation required although all her data remains intact and is recoverable). She's one of those people who draws computer faults to her like moths to a flame; We gave her a replacement PC whilst we worked on hers and in 30 minutes she'd managed to corrupt her e-mail profile and somehow lose all her network settings. Anyway, when her PC came back the leader of our team recovered all her data and then gave me her PC to rebuild. I asked him "You sure you've got everything?" before wiping the drive and reinstalling. 30 minutes after we return it she phones up, "I can't find any of my e-mail personal folders?". I check "Did you not keep them on a server somewhere?". Obviously she did not. Turns out the team leader forgot to back those up and we wiped them ("Although obviously we gave her the 'Sorry they were lost in the crash, you really should back-up you know...'")
This amuses me greatly for two reasons. Firstly she lost 2 years worth of e-mails because she didn't bother backing them up. Secondly because it was completely my team leader's fault and he tries so hard to be better than everyone else. Other people's misery is the highlight of my working day.