Letter to the student who called yesterday

[technical.angel]

Hello,

There's a little phrase I'd like to remind you of.

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

You not being able to access wireless when you have roughly 6 network ports in your room is not "kinda like an emergency".

Even if it was, I have 6 similar emergencies sitting on my bench already.

Let me tell you want an emergency is. An emergency is the president of the university not being able to use her cell phone. It's the half dozen people who fell for the phishing email. It's the fact that now we're blacklisted by a dozen email providers. It's a new faculty member not being able to log into her computer. It's the 8 new employees I have to finish processing. Heck, it's even the maintenance guy getting popups on his PC.

You've been on campus for 2 days. You could have called anytime before this. But yet, you choose to wait until the last minute.

So, no. I'm not dropping anything and getting your lazy butt on wireless.

Oh, and when you say you're going to run over and get the directions to get your lazy butt on wireless yourself after arguing with me for 15 minutes, GET YOUR LAZY BUTT OVER AND GET THEM!

[LostMyMind]

Strangely enough. My sister did the same thing to me. She's borrowing my laptop. And she had her hubby come and get me to go to her house to "fix" her wireless so she can get on....

All because she type and 'I' instead of a '1' for the encryption.

[sld72382]

He has 6 ethernet jacks in his room and he's bitching about not being able to use wireless?

Since when has plugging in an ethernet cord become difficult?

[LostMyMind]

You obviously never worked with college students and professors..... sadly, I'm surprise they know how to plug in an desk lamp.

P.S. I'm not saying all college students/professors are like this. But the smart ones don't have these kinds of issues.

[technical.angel]

He has 6 ethernet jacks in his room and he's bitching about not being able to use wireless?

Since when has plugging in an ethernet cord become difficult?

For some reason, EVERYONE (students and parents) seem to think that wired connections totally suxors.

And then, when I tell a parents that his or her child's dorm.... um.... RESIDENT HALL doesn't have wireless, you'd think that I told them that I skin puppies in my free time.

[Kheldarson]

Personally I preferred being able to plug in the ethernet cable at my school. I had far less trouble maintaining a connection than my friends with wireless laptops. Then again, the wireless at my school kinda sucked anyway...

[technical.angel]

Yeah, it's a lot better. I had to convince the kid who had wireless on his desktop that he'd have a better connection with ethernet to play WoW. :: shakes head ::

[digilight]

the damn mouth breather has 6 ethernet ports. Spoiled fuckers, when I was in college we had dialup access...to a modem bank that would fill up and give you times that you couldn't even get on. Yeah there was ethernet in the dorms and on campus buildings, but I lived in a campus apartment that was a few miles from the dorms. My university was a former army base that was converted and they hadn't run fiber to the apartments yet and DSL wasn't even invented at that point yet.

[SteeleDragon78]

the damn mouth breather has 6 ethernet ports. Spoiled fuckers, when I was in college we had dialup access...to a modem bank that would fill up and give you times that you couldn't even get on. Yeah there was ethernet in the dorms and on campus buildings, but I lived in a campus apartment that was a few miles from the dorms. My university was a former army base that was converted and they hadn't run fiber to the apartments yet and DSL wasn't even invented at that point yet.

i feel your pain there. where i went to college they didn't even have a dialup system for us to use. i was stuck using aol plugged into my campus phone. or driving home and using my parents pc, that was dialup, with aol.

ta, maybe you should start charging an idiot tax on these kids, kinda like calling 911 without an emergency, charge 20 bucks for each erroneous call. a helpdesk i used to work for started that with a client who called in 17 sev 1 tickets in a 3 day span, all for pc setups. take the money and have a luau for the IT staff with it, or something like that.

[JustADude]

For some reason, EVERYONE (students and parents) seem to think that wired connections totally suxors.

Maybe in Bizarro World.

Gimme a good, solid, reliable, snoop-proof*, hardwired Gigabit (or even 100mbps) network any day!

*Barring someone sneaking into your house and physically splicing the line, of course.

[Rapscallion]

And then, when I tell a parents that his or her child's dorm.... um.... RESIDENT HALL doesn't have wireless, you'd think that I told them that I skin puppies in my free time.

Hmm - are there any puppy mobs in WoW? If so...

Rapscallion

[technical.angel]

Good point, but, I don't think so... none that I can think of.... Cats, bears, birds... Do hyenas count?

[Geek King]

Good point, but, I don't think so... none that I can think of.... Cats, bears, birds... Do hyenas count?

Lessee...I've skinned bunnies and squirrels. How about young wolves? Ah, my misbegotten days as a dwarf hunter...

[technical.angel]

Wolves??? How could I forget wolves?? And cows. Gotta love cows.

[AccountingDrone]

Hmm - are there any puppy mobs in WoW? If so...

Rapscallion

arent there 'dogs' in molten core? well, hounds at least. I suppose a lower level one could be considered a puppy=)

Though there is a wolf pup pet available from a quest=)