Useless IT people
I've worked with IT for over 20 years now. Here are some of the things I've had to put up with from collegues.
A Support Technician who did not know what F1 does (It's the help key).

A Network Specialist who does not know what a subnet is or how to tell a class A from a class B IP range.

A Support Manager who did not know the difference between the internal network and the internet.

An Operations Manager who does not know the difference between a router and a switch.

These are just a few examples of the stupidity of "professional" people who are "highly educated" and work in IT for a living. All very well paid, all clueless.

It's enough to make you want to gnaw your own leg off.

Booce
(Booce, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:15, 30 replies)

To be fair, if I could gnaw my own leg off
I wouldn't work in IT, I'd have a lucrative career in a circus.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:16, closed)

One shot deal
Sadly, I can only gnaw each leg off once, so I would only be a hit with the circus for two days then it'd be back to IT :-(
(Booce, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:23, closed)

Not if you had to walk there.

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:43, closed)

You'd be a hit on a rolling basis I expect.

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:44, closed)

I have to say, the idea has me stumped.

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 18:03, closed)

That was a bit below the belt.
Not unlike his legs.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 18:38, closed)

Ain't that just a kick in the tee...
Ah, sorry, how inconsiderate of me!
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 18:44, closed)

I think we're scraping the bottom....
Oh!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 19:21, closed)

Do you think you'd drink before getting down to the gnawing?
I think it'd be more fun if you were legless...
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 19:32, closed)

It would become easier to drink him under the table over time.

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 19:36, closed)

I'd think he'd realise that tricks were afoot.

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 21:27, closed)

Your victory methinks.

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 22:29, closed)

A small victory, and probably will only last for a short duration

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 13:20, closed)

OY!

Leave me out of this.....
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 10:58, closed)

We didn't want to make you feel like you'd been short changed.

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 13:19, closed)

I may well have fallen into at least one of the above ( albeit briefly and before learning the answer).
Apologies
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:19, closed)

Do you call yourself an IT professional?
Or is it a hobby? If it's a hobby fair enough. If you're a "pro" what kind of pro and which one didn't you know so I can let the hate filled bile commence....
(Booce, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:22, closed)

In my defence (here goes)
I was an IT professional but my early career skills were acknowledged as being more in the delivery of the product, the support, the client management and translation of stuff for 'proles'. I made this very clear and worked with some technically brilliant folk who weren't so hot at the actual being professional bit so as a team we worked well. Also I made plenty of effort to be up to speed whenever I did have gaps in knowledge and went on to do lots of Cisco work and the such. I didn't pretend to be something I wasn't, I know my limits, I am not a danger to anyone any more!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:43, closed)

Is it wrong that I can see you saying this
at an "IT Anonymous" meeting?
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 18:03, closed)

Now that you say it, it does feel like that.
I am number5 and I have been on the wagon for 8 years.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 18:18, closed)

Taking it one day at a time?

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 18:27, closed)

01 day at a time actually.

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 18:37, closed)

Ha, you win XD

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 18:45, closed)

Were you a TechGuy?
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:28, closed)

I'm an IT professional
and I don't hold a single bit of paper or qualification and haven't really been on any training courses.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 17:49, closed)

Well...
I'm an IT girl, and funnily enough, I don't have any qualifications either. Hee hee hee. Titter.
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 19:12, closed)

^

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 10:19, closed)

when I was interviewed for my current job
I was asked if I had a degree or any industry qualifications. When I answered in the negative, he replied that they only had graduate in the department - an MCSE with an IT-related degree. His job was to answer the phone because he was completely incompetent when given anything technical to do.
(bblgoose, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:46, closed)

Class A? Class B?
These days it's CIDR, dear boy.

I recently had to deal with a Cisco-certified network tech. who couldn't understand why a device with an IP address of x.x.x.101/25 was never going to talk to a gateway at x.x.x.254.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 19:49, closed)

a very good mate of mine who is a CCIE
Called me last week to ask how to hide a partition in Windows, just un-assign it a drive letter in disk management should do the trick for most non IT folk'. Ten mins later another phone call, 'where's disk management?'
(Kip, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 18:37, closed)