Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
Discussion
captain_cynic said:
Maybe try listening to what IT are telling you and doing as your instructed.
It's not IT that is the problem it's the users who think they know better that screw everything up, usually not just for themselves.
If you're not smart enough to follow basic instructions then perhaps it's time for you to become a bin man instead.
And yes you're wrong... And you know you're wrong and pretending otherwise is only deluding yourself.
Careful, he'll throw shoes into the server room.It's not IT that is the problem it's the users who think they know better that screw everything up, usually not just for themselves.
If you're not smart enough to follow basic instructions then perhaps it's time for you to become a bin man instead.
And yes you're wrong... And you know you're wrong and pretending otherwise is only deluding yourself.
captain_cynic said:
Jonboy_t said:
IT. On the whole, it’s just a massive bag of dicks that has the potential (and desire, apparently) to ruin people’s day/week/life for absolutely no reason other than it feels like it.
Additionally, the fact that our working lives have all become so reliant on something that can be completely wiped out by a YTS boy pressing the wrong button. Or a cleaner unplugging something to put the hoover round. Or slightly warm weather making some metal a bit too hot.
Let’s just f
k it all off and go back to paper, at least when you lose that is your own bloody fault.
Don’t try telling me it works, you’re wrong. It doesn’t.
Maybe try listening to what IT are telling you and doing as your instructed. Additionally, the fact that our working lives have all become so reliant on something that can be completely wiped out by a YTS boy pressing the wrong button. Or a cleaner unplugging something to put the hoover round. Or slightly warm weather making some metal a bit too hot.
Let’s just f
k it all off and go back to paper, at least when you lose that is your own bloody fault. Don’t try telling me it works, you’re wrong. It doesn’t.
It's not IT that is the problem it's the users who think they know better that screw everything up, usually not just for themselves.
If you're not smart enough to follow basic instructions then perhaps it's time for you to become a bin man instead.
And yes you're wrong... And you know you're wrong and pretending otherwise is only deluding yourself.
captain_cynic said:
Jonboy_t said:
IT. On the whole, it’s just a massive bag of dicks that has the potential (and desire, apparently) to ruin people’s day/week/life for absolutely no reason other than it feels like it.
Additionally, the fact that our working lives have all become so reliant on something that can be completely wiped out by a YTS boy pressing the wrong button. Or a cleaner unplugging something to put the hoover round. Or slightly warm weather making some metal a bit too hot.
Let’s just fk it all off and go back to paper, at least when you lose that is your own bloody fault.
Don’t try telling me it works, you’re wrong. It doesn’t.
Maybe try listening to what IT are telling you and doing as your instructed. Additionally, the fact that our working lives have all become so reliant on something that can be completely wiped out by a YTS boy pressing the wrong button. Or a cleaner unplugging something to put the hoover round. Or slightly warm weather making some metal a bit too hot.
Let’s just f
k it all off and go back to paper, at least when you lose that is your own bloody fault. Don’t try telling me it works, you’re wrong. It doesn’t.
It's not IT that is the problem it's the users who think they know better that screw everything up, usually not just for themselves.
If you're not smart enough to follow basic instructions then perhaps it's time for you to become a bin man instead.
And yes you're wrong... And you know you're wrong and pretending otherwise is only deluding yourself.
It is absolutely IT (the stuff itself) who are the problem. I have no power/capability/knowledge to f
k with OneDrive so I don’t touch it, yet it decides to completely fail and lose 2 weeks of work. This is between me shutting down last night and restarting this morning - computer off, me in the garden. It’s IT. Every day, there are 10+ messages from the IT team on the internal comms dashboard thing saying ‘known issue with x/y/z’. It’s all s
te and breaks for end users and it’s ‘us’ who are the ones who have to suffer with lost hours and work. Further to IT being horse s
t, (some)people in IT piss me off too. Not for their (in)capability, but the sheer smugness of them just riles me. *snort*”what do you mean you can’t defrag your own upper thrustbody, everyone can do that! It’s easier than defining the sigma variables of the coded RAM envelope”*snort*. fk off you bellend.MartG said:
Workmen who start very early in the morning, make a fktonne of noise for the first half hour, then when they've woken up everyone within a half-mile radius, work virtually silently for the rest of the day 
s !
Absolutely. We had 8 months of them turning up at 7.15-7.30 and sitting around chatting on the road till around 7.45 when it was get even noiser for precisely 45 minutes and from around 9.30AM completely silent until they fktonne of noise for the first half hour, then when they've woken up everyone within a half-mile radius, work virtually silently for the rest of the day s !ked off at 3pm.Now the neighbours over the back have started up a loft extension on their semi, and I was woken up at 9AM on Sunday to the sound of rat-a-tat nail guns going off - the build is on a house 100m from me so i can't be the only ones pissed off with them. ALL DAY SUNDAY it was noisy, not a peep this week apart from the odd bang and wallop. Got to be deliberate. Probably pissed off that they have to work in the sun and heat.
bmwmike said:
MartG said:
Workmen who start very early in the morning, make a fktonne of noise for the first half hour, then when they've woken up everyone within a half-mile radius, work virtually silently for the rest of the day
s !
Absolutely. We had 8 months of them turning up at 7.15-7.30 and sitting around chatting on the road till around 7.45 when it was get even noiser for precisely 45 minutes and from around 9.30AM completely silent until they fktonne of noise for the first half hour, then when they've woken up everyone within a half-mile radius, work virtually silently for the rest of the day s !ked off at 3pm.Now the neighbours over the back have started up a loft extension on their semi, and I was woken up at 9AM on Sunday to the sound of rat-a-tat nail guns going off - the build is on a house 100m from me so i can't be the only ones pissed off with them. ALL DAY SUNDAY it was noisy, not a peep this week apart from the odd bang and wallop. Got to be deliberate. Probably pissed off that they have to work in the sun and heat.
Jonboy_t said:
IT. On the whole, it’s just a massive bag of dicks that has the potential (and desire, apparently) to ruin people’s day/week/life for absolutely no reason other than it feels like it. .
My IT department is st. Completely useless. I have six calls logged with them that they are unable to fix. One is over a month old, I chased it on monday, no response, glad im leaving the company soon and they can shove their systems up their ass.Last Visit said:
Sense I'm outnumbered, know your audiance and all that....
Crickets a great game, it is exciting and I don't have to be drunk to enjoy watching it. Even a 5 day test.
I agree. I enjoy the game in all of its guises.Crickets a great game, it is exciting and I don't have to be drunk to enjoy watching it. Even a 5 day test.
Nothing better, back in the day, than watching a test match on TV, with the sound down and listening to TMS. Jonners, Blowers, Fred Trueman and the like going on about pigeons and passing double deckers.
Bliss.
Blib said:
Last Visit said:
Sense I'm outnumbered, know your audiance and all that....
Crickets a great game, it is exciting and I don't have to be drunk to enjoy watching it. Even a 5 day test.
I agree. I enjoy the game in all of its guises.Crickets a great game, it is exciting and I don't have to be drunk to enjoy watching it. Even a 5 day test.
Nothing better, back in the day, than watching a test match on TV, with the sound down and listening to TMS. Jonners, Blowers, Fred Trueman and the like going on about pigeons and passing double deckers.
Bliss.
I was doing it at work (the joys of being a partner) - Sky Go playing video on my phone and my computer playing TMS into one earphone. Took a bit of jiggling to get the sound to sync with the on-screen action. Could get on with work and then watch the replays of key moments (wickets/boundaries).
If we're going down the IT rabbit hole, technology in general.
I love the fact that I can watch TV in HD, I have access to thousands of songs on Spotify, my phone takes decent pictures etc. but I'd be much happier if someone said "We're really pushing the envelope with technology to bring you all the highly advanced things you might expect these days so we're going to spend the next couple of years making sure everything that currently exists works really, really well instead of coming up with the next generation widget."
Bugbear at the moment:
My phone fairly frequently restarts itself when plugged in to my car for Android Auto. I then have to pull over, unplug it, unlock with my PIN which is required after a restart (why this is deemed more secure than my fingerprint I have no F-ing idea), wait a minute for it to boot up properly, plug it back in to the USB cable and hope Android Auto opens up ok without causing the whole thing happening again.
I love the fact that I can watch TV in HD, I have access to thousands of songs on Spotify, my phone takes decent pictures etc. but I'd be much happier if someone said "We're really pushing the envelope with technology to bring you all the highly advanced things you might expect these days so we're going to spend the next couple of years making sure everything that currently exists works really, really well instead of coming up with the next generation widget."
Bugbear at the moment:
My phone fairly frequently restarts itself when plugged in to my car for Android Auto. I then have to pull over, unplug it, unlock with my PIN which is required after a restart (why this is deemed more secure than my fingerprint I have no F-ing idea), wait a minute for it to boot up properly, plug it back in to the USB cable and hope Android Auto opens up ok without causing the whole thing happening again.
DRFC1879 said:
If we're going down the IT rabbit hole, technology in general.
I love the fact that I can watch TV in HD, I have access to thousands of songs on Spotify, my phone takes decent pictures etc. but I'd be much happier if someone said "We're really pushing the envelope with technology to bring you all the highly advanced things you might expect these days so we're going to spend the next couple of years making sure everything that currently exists works really, really well instead of coming up with the next generation widget."
Bugbear at the moment:
My phone fairly frequently restarts itself when plugged in to my car for Android Auto. I then have to pull over, unplug it, unlock with my PIN which is required after a restart (why this is deemed more secure than my fingerprint I have no F-ing idea), wait a minute for it to boot up properly, plug it back in to the USB cable and hope Android Auto opens up ok without causing the whole thing happening again.
There's no money in 'works well'. We'd be going back into the dark ages where things lasted ten years... a lifetime even.I love the fact that I can watch TV in HD, I have access to thousands of songs on Spotify, my phone takes decent pictures etc. but I'd be much happier if someone said "We're really pushing the envelope with technology to bring you all the highly advanced things you might expect these days so we're going to spend the next couple of years making sure everything that currently exists works really, really well instead of coming up with the next generation widget."
Bugbear at the moment:
My phone fairly frequently restarts itself when plugged in to my car for Android Auto. I then have to pull over, unplug it, unlock with my PIN which is required after a restart (why this is deemed more secure than my fingerprint I have no F-ing idea), wait a minute for it to boot up properly, plug it back in to the USB cable and hope Android Auto opens up ok without causing the whole thing happening again.
These days, there's money in 'works well enough' and 'hey, why don't you buy the latest model?'.
Jonboy_t said:
captain_cynic said:
Jonboy_t said:
IT. On the whole, it’s just a massive bag of dicks that has the potential (and desire, apparently) to ruin people’s day/week/life for absolutely no reason other than it feels like it.
Additionally, the fact that our working lives have all become so reliant on something that can be completely wiped out by a YTS boy pressing the wrong button. Or a cleaner unplugging something to put the hoover round. Or slightly warm weather making some metal a bit too hot.
Let’s just fk it all off and go back to paper, at least when you lose that is your own bloody fault.
Don’t try telling me it works, you’re wrong. It doesn’t.
Maybe try listening to what IT are telling you and doing as your instructed. Additionally, the fact that our working lives have all become so reliant on something that can be completely wiped out by a YTS boy pressing the wrong button. Or a cleaner unplugging something to put the hoover round. Or slightly warm weather making some metal a bit too hot.
Let’s just f
k it all off and go back to paper, at least when you lose that is your own bloody fault. Don’t try telling me it works, you’re wrong. It doesn’t.
It's not IT that is the problem it's the users who think they know better that screw everything up, usually not just for themselves.
If you're not smart enough to follow basic instructions then perhaps it's time for you to become a bin man instead.
And yes you're wrong... And you know you're wrong and pretending otherwise is only deluding yourself.
It is absolutely IT (the stuff itself) who are the problem. I have no power/capability/knowledge to f
k with OneDrive so I don’t touch it, yet it decides to completely fail and lose 2 weeks of work. This is between me shutting down last night and restarting this morning - computer off, me in the garden. It’s IT. Every day, there are 10+ messages from the IT team on the internal comms dashboard thing saying ‘known issue with x/y/z’. It’s all s
te and breaks for end users and it’s ‘us’ who are the ones who have to suffer with lost hours and work. Further to IT being horse s
t, (some)people in IT piss me off too. Not for their (in)capability, but the sheer smugness of them just riles me. *snort*”what do you mean you can’t defrag your own upper thrustbody, everyone can do that! It’s easier than defining the sigma variables of the coded RAM envelope”*snort*. fk off you bellend.I'm pretty sure nobody truly understands IT. Sure there are people who are experts in specific bits of it, bit it's such a massive subject that nobody knows how all the bits fit together. A decent IT bod is generally just someone with a better than average working knowledge of the main things, and access to google.
DRFC1879 said:
If we're going down the IT rabbit hole, technology in general.
I love the fact that I can watch TV in HD, I have access to thousands of songs on Spotify, my phone takes decent pictures etc. but I'd be much happier if someone said "We're really pushing the envelope with technology to bring you all the highly advanced things you might expect these days so we're going to spend the next couple of years making sure everything that currently exists works really, really well instead of coming up with the next generation widget."
Bugbear at the moment:
My phone fairly frequently restarts itself when plugged in to my car for Android Auto. I then have to pull over, unplug it, unlock with my PIN which is required after a restart (why this is deemed more secure than my fingerprint I have no F-ing idea), wait a minute for it to boot up properly, plug it back in to the USB cable and hope Android Auto opens up ok without causing the whole thing happening again.
A few years ago, I bought a 4k TV. I also bought a 4k capable amp for the home cinema. But I had no 4k sources. The point was to "future-proof" myself.I love the fact that I can watch TV in HD, I have access to thousands of songs on Spotify, my phone takes decent pictures etc. but I'd be much happier if someone said "We're really pushing the envelope with technology to bring you all the highly advanced things you might expect these days so we're going to spend the next couple of years making sure everything that currently exists works really, really well instead of coming up with the next generation widget."
Bugbear at the moment:
My phone fairly frequently restarts itself when plugged in to my car for Android Auto. I then have to pull over, unplug it, unlock with my PIN which is required after a restart (why this is deemed more secure than my fingerprint I have no F-ing idea), wait a minute for it to boot up properly, plug it back in to the USB cable and hope Android Auto opens up ok without causing the whole thing happening again.
I eventually upgraded to Sky Q and a 4k Apple TV, so I thought I'd connect it all up. What a bleedin' faff. The TV would only accept 4k on one HDMI socket. The amp wouldn't pass 4k through, even though it should because HDMI protocols had changed - which also meant I needed to lay a new HDMI cable. But the video distribution for 4k would be ruinously expensive, so I had to stick with HD in the rest of the house.
RizzoTheRat said:
I'm pretty sure nobody truly understands IT. Sure there are people who are experts in specific bits of it, bit it's such a massive subject that nobody knows how all the bits fit together. A decent IT bod is generally just someone with a better than average working knowledge of the main things, and access to google.
Very true and, genuinely, hats off to anyone who works in the field as they inevitably have to deal with people like me - I don’t even like dealing with me so it’s an unenviable task. But there should be a mandatory section on the IT training syllabus where they write lines on a blackboard 1000 times that say;“I will learn to humbly admit I don’t know and ask someone who may be more informed instead of making it up”
“I will learn to humbly admit I don’t know and ask someone who may be more informed instead of making it up”
“I will learn to humbly admit I don’t know and ask someone who may be more informed instead of making it up”
V8mate said:
There's no money in 'works well'. We'd be going back into the dark ages where things lasted ten years... a lifetime even.
These days, there's money in 'works well enough' and 'hey, why don't you buy the latest model?'.
AstonZagato said:
Blib said:
Last Visit said:
Sense I'm outnumbered, know your audiance and all that....
Crickets a great game, it is exciting and I don't have to be drunk to enjoy watching it. Even a 5 day test.
I agree. I enjoy the game in all of its guises.Crickets a great game, it is exciting and I don't have to be drunk to enjoy watching it. Even a 5 day test.
Nothing better, back in the day, than watching a test match on TV, with the sound down and listening to TMS. Jonners, Blowers, Fred Trueman and the like going on about pigeons and passing double deckers.
Bliss.
I was doing it at work (the joys of being a partner) - Sky Go playing video on my phone and my computer playing TMS into one earphone. Took a bit of jiggling to get the sound to sync with the on-screen action. Could get on with work and then watch the replays of key moments (wickets/boundaries).
Every now and then I ask an English mate, and he immediately launches off into "Well, there's x balls in an over, and y overs in a something" and seems incapable of understanding that I'm asking for an explanation because I don't understand, and that I have no idea what he means by a 'ball' or 'over'.
paulguitar said:
SlimJim16v said:
Super Sonic said:
So you drive off, and when you go to shift up, you can't fully depress the clutch pedal. Really grinds my gears!
How did you pull away without using the clutch? Thank you Slim, you may be the only one that spotted the joke;-)
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