I wonder...

[Geek King]

...would it still be Shaken Baby Syndrome if I caused it in a 46-year-old man?

I'm back in the old equipment room today, so my support abilities are not what they usually are. I've got an old computer that may have Adam & Eve's account info on it as my one link to the main office, and my office phone forewarded to my cell phone for support.

User calls my line with a computer that won't stay powered up. I just spent far too long on this call because this fine user couldn't find the power cord on the back of his computer.

Couldn't.


find.


the.


Power.


Cord.



I seriously had to have him look at the surge protector and trace each cord until he found one going to the computer. No, not the monitor, damnit--The computer! Once I finally got Ookla to rub the monolith, he managed to unplug it and plug it back in. Issue fixed.

[technical.angel]

...

......

.........

Couldn't find the power cord on the back of the PC... The big ole plug.... in the back.... ouch.

[technical.angel]

BEST WORK ORDER EVAR!

I just had to install a power strip for someone...

Sad Angel is sad.

(Yes, I HAVE been reading too many lolcat captions.)

[dalesys]

I drove 60 miles (100km) to Iomega to plug a wall-wart back in at the security desk. (It was powering some of the cameras)

[Geek King]

BEST WORK ORDER EVAR!

I just had to install a power strip for someone...

Well, at least you got out of the office...

[technical.angel]

and it wasn't actually raining at the time....

[prb]

I drove 60 miles (100km) to Iomega to plug a wall-wart back in at the security desk. (It was powering some of the cameras)

But that... they... don't.... but...

Hopefully you get paid a generous amount per mile

But is it bad that I think of zip drives not external hard drives when I think of Iomega? Internal's where it's at baby!

[dmf]

I drove 60 miles (100km) to Iomega to plug a wall-wart back in at the security desk. (It was powering some of the cameras)

60 miles i laugh at 60. i once had to drive 240 miles to change a monitor cable from socket 2 to socket 1 on a shuttle pc.

[Bliss]

*puts on a old geezer voice*

That wash nothing... on my time we had to walk eight hundred miles!! over the ocean! to go change lightsh bulbsh on the shcreens of kaypro terminalsh... they ushed light bulbsh big ash my head, full of green monitor liquid! the bulb would burn slowly, until the lettersh would fade!

[Oberonsshadow]

We have a totally digital x-ray system in our hospital. I'm apparently the only technician that has any idea how to work computers and as such, I've been called to radiology on several occasions to "fix" the x-ray machine. The fix? Classic Windows fix. I rebooted the machine.

I also was asked to help figure out why one of our bloodwork machines wasn't working.

... It wasn't plugged in.

I work with morons.

[Dark-Star]

holy moly...

I work with morons.

Agreed.

Could you possibly tell me what hospital you work at? I'd rather like to avoid it if the staff is so freaking techno-illiterate as to need a techie to plug something in.

[Eric the Grey]

... It wasn't plugged in.

I work with morons.

Um, wow. It almost sounds like my medical, Kaiser. Everything is computerized, but at least as far as I've seen, all the people there know how to at least work a computer.



Eric the Grey

[Oberonsshadow]

Could you possibly tell me what hospital you work at? I'd rather like to avoid it if the staff is so freaking techno-illiterate as to need a techie to plug something in.

I work at a corporate owned animal hospital in Southern California. The staff is really good at what they do, they just aren't technologically inclined.

Also, in the veterinary world, the word tech or technician refers to the people that are more or less the equivalent of human nurses. So it's not that they called tech support to fix the problem... they were just too dense to check the back of the machine.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

*puts on a old geezer voice*

That wash nothing... on my time we had to walk eight hundred miles!! over the ocean! to go change lightsh bulbsh on the shcreens of kaypro terminalsh... they ushed light bulbsh big ash my head, full of green monitor liquid! the bulb would burn slowly, until the lettersh would fade!

Yeah but did you have to kill any dust bunnies with a loose-leaf notebook?

I feel for ya Geek King . . . my grocery store is filled with less than tech-savy persons.

I have a store manager who can't figure out how to create a database on Excel. Who does he come to to do this? Me.

Who does the DSD Girl come to when she needs to do something using Word? Me

Who does the Produce Manager come to when he can't figure out how to reply to an email? Me again.

Why me? Do I have some sign on my forehead that says "Geek Girl" or some such?