aaaarrrgh!
No offence to gagknee. but in my experience most IT people are idiots. Well, maybe not - but the talented ones all get promoted pretty quickly to Network Administrators and managers leaving the idiots to run the helpdesk.
I found out yesterday that I have to go to California next week, so I requested a laptop for my trip. The guy gave me two choices:
- the standard laptop which is nice, but too big to fit on an airplane tray easily, but that doesn't really matter because the battery only lasts about an hour, so it's not that useful on a 6 hour flight anyway.
- a brand new "small" laptop - which fits on the tray, and a battery life of close to 4 hours. He assured me that I would be able to watch DVDs with it on the plane, so I took the small one.
I waited until last night to open up the case - at which time I discovered that it was too small and didn't even HAVE a DVD drive. And then, when I had resigned myself to no DVD drive, I plugged it in and discovered that the battery didn't even work!!! it won't charge, and the laptop only runs when plugged in - which defeated the whole purpose of having the small one in the first place!!!!!!
posted by Big A @ 3:13 PM
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Did the IT person tell you to wait until the last minute to test the new device?
I asked them to give it to me at 9 a.m. He handed it to me at 4:30 p.m. - right before he walked out the door.
oh. that sucks. a laptop without a battery is absolutely useless.
how could it not have a dvd drive? thats standard now.
"Did you try rebooting it????"
That is the ONLY answer that we ever get from our IT people.
They don't understand that most people in Engineering are not your average pc user. We pretty much just need IT to enable permissions on a server so that we can fix the problem ourselves.
I actually hate it when IT does anything to my PC.
Its too small - there is no room for any kind of disk drive. I got a new one before my trip, so all is good now - well, I still don't have a DVD drive.
L-dub, I totally agree with you.
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