put in a 16 hour day today

[retro]

:willy_nilly:

I get back from work this evening, sit down and then get a text from my boss saying that he had a virus on his computer. So I drive back, and go take a look at it. Well, he installed some sort of malware onto it (after he denied my request to purchase anti-malware software when we were budgeting for this year). So I reboot it to go into safe mode... blue screen. Tried last known good configuration. Blue screen. Tried to repair... and the repair utility says it doesn't recognize the file system.

So, I had to install Windows onto a different drive, reinstall all of his applications, and then recover all of his data from the other drive. This was on top of already having a completely all-around crappy day until that point. So, 7 hours after I started fixing his computer, it's all taken care of. Have I mentioned just how much I love my job? :24:

On the bright side, I'm not going to go in tomorrow, and I'll take Wednesday afternoon off instead of my normal Tuesday afternoon. Bonus of not coming in tomorrow... I get to miss the horrible weekly meeting we have on Tuesdays.

How was everyone else's day? :24:

 

[Siphorous]

Did this convince him to allow for anti-malware or is he being pig-headed about it as though it's not his fault etc?

My day was your average defect fixes, wait for QAs to healthcheck, release build and lots of browsing. Things are very, very slow at the moment which is no surprise.

 

[retro]

Did this convince him to allow for anti-malware or is he being pig-headed about it as though it's not his fault etc?

My day was your average defect fixes, wait for QAs to healthcheck, release build and lots of browsing. Things are very, very slow at the moment which is no surprise.

He's convinced that our anti-virus should have prevented it. So now I have to send him an e-mail detailing the differences between anti-virus and anti-malware. But I'll leave that for Wednesday. I'm just gonna relax tomorrow.

 

[Siphorous]

After that kinda day, sounds like it's something deserved and needed.

 

[StripedCat]

Phew..
As people say: Usually the problem is not the computer itself but it is sitting right in front of it.

 

[retro]

Phew..
As people say: Usually the problem is not the computer itself but it is sitting right in front of it.

we call it a PEBKAC

Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair

 

[StripedCat]

*lol* PEBKAC. So I've learned something new again. I will keep it in mind.

 

[Kyle B]

Most I ever do is 12 hours, when the college has graduation.

What's wrong with meetings? They're great time wasters.

 

[retro]

Most I ever do is 12 hours, when the college has graduation.

What's wrong with meetings? They're great time wasters.

No, see. This meeting is when my boss comes up with some inane thing to blast me on, or find an issue that nobody has told me about yet and tell me I'm not doing my job because it hasn't been fixed.

 

[Tim]

we call it a PEBKAC

Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair

When people in our office have this type of problem, I say it's an "ID ten T" error

 

[Olly Flexx]

*lol* PEBKAC. So I've learned something new again. I will keep it in mind.

Makes 2 of us then lol good one that

 

[retro]

When people in our office have this type of problem, I say it's an "ID ten T" error

That's another good one... though I got chewed out once because the big boss heard one of my guys say it, and then he looked it up. Had to reprimand the guy, and it ended up being his next to last warning... we fired him a few weeks later.

 

[StripedCat]

When people in our office have this type of problem, I say it's an "ID ten T" error

I had to look it up and found another one: PICNIC ("Problem In Chair Not In Computer"), EIFOK ("Error In Front Of Keyboard") and Error-40 ("Error sitting 40 cm in front of the monitor")

:24:

There exists also a German term for silly users but as it is a wordplay it's nearly impossible to translate it. Damn.

 

[Diggin Deep]

Ret...I hope the rest of your week hasn't been so :willy_nilly:. As far as the acronyms, our IT support staff loves to uses all of them quite frequently

 

[retro]

Ret...I hope the rest of your week hasn't been so :willy_nilly:. As far as the acronyms, our IT support staff loves to uses all of them quite frequently

I ended up having to come back in here for two hours yesterday because he broke like three other things somehow. So I came in late, and I'm leaving early this afternoon.

 

[Diggin Deep]

I ended up having to come back in here for two hours yesterday because he broke like three other things somehow. So I came in late, and I'm leaving early this afternoon.

Geesh!!! Sounds like your boss needs to "step away from the computer". I guess you can look at it positively - job security!

 

[retro]

Basically it comes down to my boss being a complete moron. But he thinks he's an expert computer user because he can run SQL queries that other people write for him, and he's (in his eyes) awesome at using Excel. He's actually called himself an "old hacker" because of these two things. Oh, and he can edit text files like nobody's business.

 

[Diggin Deep]

lulz...I'm sure you and many others get some pretty good laughs at the office, despite the frustration.

 

[retro]

We do and we don't... he basically makes everyone miserable when he's around. When he's traveling, we all seem to be in pretty good moods... but when he's around, he stresses everyone out.