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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hand of Evil" data-source="post: 6857140" data-attributes="member: 371">Back in the day, our branch office were connected to by satellite, which required them to have rather large dishes.  Every day we would come in and check the status of your sites and make sure they were online and then call them to find out the cause.  Normal fit was to reset their device but there were a few that I always thought was funny.  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The dish was gone, someone stole it.  This was not noticed until I contacted them and asked if there were any obstructions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Their was a pelican nesting on the dish.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The dish just was blown away in a storm. </li> </ul>Started to hate printers in my last few years working in IT, would always get calls about printers not printing.  Causes:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Out of paper - this one would tick me off to no end, the users did not even check! </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Trays not set correctly - some user would put paper in the tray but would not set the guides and paper would be loose in the tray. </li> </ul>Also, back in the day, when desktop just started to get in the work place, they had locks built into them.  They indicated this by a key symbol on the CRT.  Would get at least one call a week from someone with a locked PC.  Told them to turn the key.  Once back in the day, our card reader failed on third shift and the female tech showed up only in a trench coat.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  She was very cute and sexy.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Had an employee on second shift, that was in the printer pit throw a box and hit the fire alarm, this did a hard shut down of the data center.  It was a Friday night so I ended up working a 24 hour shift. Building basement flooded due to water main breaking, causing power outage for six months.  Generator brought in and had to run everything from our training center and rented space but the biggest issue was it seemed everyone needed "their" PC to due their jobs, had to move and transport about a 100 workstation from the building to the alternate locations.  Issue with this was only the data center had power, the rest of the build was dark and no elevators!  Report we had to fill out:LTR - Lost Time Report - this was when a job cancelled and recorded response time to get the issue resolved.  It was to be filled out in RED ink.  Manager saw the same guy that threw the box filling it in black in and sent that pen across the room.  Had an employee on second that referred to himself as a "console operator".  I was cross training as shift manager and sent him to the printer pit to allow another employee to train on console commands.  Guy was so pissed he reported me to Data Center Manager, who told him to go to the printer pit.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Had a very HOT model doing a nude photo shoot (illegal) using Tunnel Vision (painting on our building) as a backdrop at 3AM.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Was told to stop using the phase "user" as it was derogatory.</blockquote>

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