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Shared on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 08:53
So I work IT and we are getting ready to deploy new pcs to one of our locations and wanted to start it after christmas but had them delivered already. Well one guy that thinks he knows about computers opened one up and tried setting one up for himself, needless to say it didn't go very well. He called me to tell me about errors he was getting, he tired to boot up his old hard drive in the new pc and was surprised it didn't boot work.  I promptly asked him who gave you permission to open the boxes up and set up your own system? He thought it was okay since he does this stuff at home. I told him put everything back the way it was, continue working on you old pc and wait for the IT dept to set everything up.

I really miss the old days when we had locks on all pcs.

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OldManRiver48's picture
Submitted by OldManRiver48 on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 10:10
There always has to be, at least one "guy" like that!
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Submitted by Krazy_E on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 10:49
Yep, there's always at least one idiot. Be on the look out for others. I had a similar idiot in a remote office where we assigned static IPs for security. He opened up one of the new PCs before IT arrived to set them up and he couldn't get on the internet. Being just smart enough to be dangerous, he looked at the IP address on his old PC and assigned the new box one number higher... but that IP address was already taken... by the branch manager. It knocked her offline and the manager called HQ for support. After troubleshooting over the phone with the manager to try to get her back online I was finally able to determine where the IP conflict came from. I swear the first thing I asked was "What changed over there?" And their answer was a resounding "Nothing changed." I wish the "ping of death" really worked sometimes. F-ing users. I locked down their switch ports after that.

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