Stuff Users Say

http://community.spiceworks.com - You know how it goes: end users who think the Internet is theirs alone, keyboard "accidents," and borderline psychotic employees who attempt to eat their monitors... okay -- maybe that last one is an isolated incident. But as hardworking IT pros in the trenches, you put up with a lot of shenanigans, and you deserve a chuckle or two. So in true Spiceworks style, we're here to wish you a Happy Sysadmin Day!

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  Comedy

[MyRandomRubbish]

Its just like work! :)

[UTTechSolutions]

How about this one I got the other day from a user:

"So we sent out a mass email throughout the company and it contained some information we don't want shared, can we get it back?"

Maybe if email had just become popular would I expect this question, but not in 2012 haha

[Scott Anger]

A stick of RAM, a battery and some binder clips. If a user could make a Morse code transmitter out of *just* these components, I'd let him/her wear my sysadmin hat for a day!

[Baios Okanenas]

"End user mishaps" yeap,just another IT day. and sharing my mishap of the week : - vaios did you change anything on the keyboard after the format? - eerr...no..why? - i cant type numbers - which numbers do you use? the top ones or the right ones? - the right ones - press Num lock - (silence) - above the 7 - oh oh...alright its working now! thanks!

[Andrea D]

I'm in control! Love it!!

[Andrea D]

Don't you know that everything is related to IT? Regardless if there is a power button or not we should know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING!

[Andrea D]

Ashley you are too funny. Sounds oh so familiar :P oops.....

[Zac Moore]

What I face everyday. There was this one user, who had somehow managed to forget where she saved her data or to save it (don't know which, but I think it's the former), and she expected me to recover it! What's more, she was yelling at me and when I wasn't able to fix it, she said "THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!!" I was mad, and pretty much vowed to never help her again (which was just my way of saying "I'm not a miracle worker"). Nothing I'm not used to.

[RehanNWL]

oOopS! LOL that dude is really funny

[aragon2235]

If only end users knew the pain they caused admins...and the laughs of course :)

strangest ticket i got was that a state website was down yet the user could get to all other websites, somehow that was something our IT team needed to fix...

[HonourMyMaker]

Nice, I was actually bought a badge saying that by one of my users. Wouldn't let me use it on them the next day though >.<