So, anyway, I’m at work, doing work (a stretch, I know, but stay with me). I get a message from a user I tried calling monday, who is finally ready for me to work on her machine. Great.
She needs the drivers for an aircard installed. For those that don’t know, an aircard is a device to connect to a mobile broadband network. Ideally, it allows a user to connect to the internet anywhere.
So, the user comes in, brings me the laptop and aircard, and leaves. A few moments later, a co-worker of mine comes in and asks about the aircard. She then tells me that when she was walking down the hall and heard the user say, “I bet he installs the wrong card.”
Excuse me?
I should install the wrong thing just to spite her. “Here you go, a brand new install of Windows 98.”
Go figure.
Zel-kun out.
Sabrejack | 22-Jun-07 at 11:33 am | Permalink
Unless you’ve botched other installs of various things at the office, I wouldn’t take it personally. Chances are good there are other screw-ups in your IT department and this person works in an area that has suffered at their hands, and there is now a general level of distaste for the IT workers. In fact, this happens a lot at bigger companies for much the same reason it happens at high schools — the smart people get picked on out of jealousy and dependence (they NEED you to make the magic work!)
So it’s likely they were bitching about IT as an entity and not you specifically.
Zel-kun | 22-Jun-07 at 11:47 am | Permalink
Yeah, never met this user before today, so you’re probably right.
I just dislike when someone smiles to your face and has a rotten mouth behind your back.
As an update, I installed her device flawlessly.
Sabrejack | 22-Jun-07 at 1:29 pm | Permalink
Yeah, me too.. two-faced is an insult for a reason!