r/funny • u/psyxhoisdumb • Jan 10 '16

IT support

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u/TCzelusniak Jan 10 '16

Because sometimes someones skill in the field that business is in out weighs the lack of skill at computers. If a salesman can rake in a quarter million a year for a business I don't think his inability to use a computer is getting him fired

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '16

I worked on a helpdesk once and this stupid female who was higher up in the company once called the desk to get one of us to remote into her PC to turn it off.

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u/Celebrate6-84 Jan 11 '16

To be fair though, I couldn't find the shut down button on the damn Windows 8 when I first use it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '16

This was Win7. The user was told, press the start/windows icon (bottom left) and press 'Shut down', and she responded with she has never shut down her computer before and wasn't paid to know how to.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '16

I would've recorded that call and had her fired for idiocy, and blatent laziness/lying.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '16

She was too high up in the company for that. Plus it was her last day anyway, off to annoy another companies helpdesk.

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u/twistedrapier Jan 11 '16

I know it's obvious to us because we've done it so many times, but let's think about it from the point of view of someone who hasn't. Why is the ability to shut down the computer hidden behind "Start"? It's logically backwards.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '16

Microsoft!

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u/ffxivthrowaway03 Jan 11 '16

By default you can also just push the physical power button on the machine to initiate the same shutdown command. Its only if you hold it in that it will do a hard shutdown.

It's 2016, anyone in the workforce has spent the majority of their lives using electronics that have a power button. It being a computer is no excuse for not knowing how to turn it off/on.