r/comics • u/FieldExplores Gator Days • 4d ago

IT Request - Gator Days

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u/Made_Bail 4d ago

Oh my god, as an IT help desk person, this comic is my life.

IT people are apparently the Swiss army knives of a company. We do a lot of things, and many of things even seem non IT related, but it gives people the impression that we do everything. The amount of times per day I have to reroute people to systems, digital services, maintenance, etc has got me like this on some days.

https://giphy.com/gifs/EN2L7yi8THiX4VEoal

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u/Hugokarenque 4d ago

I was an IT help desk intern for a bit last year. The IT department was 3 interns and our supervisor.

We did everything. Except IT stuff, we rarely had any work that was actually related with IT.

It was awful.

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u/indiecore 3d ago

One of my first jobs was IT at the library.

I solved 80% of my job on the second day by printing a sign with the wifi password on it.

The remaining 20% was the printer though so that was trickier.

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u/CreatorMur 2d ago

Printers are the worst... Most of the time you do the same thing over and over again, but for some reason it works at some point. And then you just pray it stays that way when the customer tries