Continue to help setup the new PC for some of the colleagues who are on leave on Friday.
So as usual, I connect the new PC to a network point, help my colleague map to the shared drive and ask them to copy their data to the new PC.
Then one colleague asked me this question:
“So I copy everything in C drive to the new PC C drive huh?”
WTF….. For goodness sake, if this question is being asked by someone with non-IT degree, I can still understand. But this fellow has an IT degree. Does he has any basic IT knowledge? You just need to copy your data over. Your software need to be reinstalled onto the new PC manually. It will not work if you just copy your program folder over to the new PC. This is basic IT knowledge that even non-IT people would know. Does he really have a IT degree or is it bought online?
And my reply to him was:
“Which university did you graduate from?”
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Few hours later, another colleague walked pass me and saw me setting up PC for other colleague. He came over and had a short chat with me. He said that being a LAN admin in a IT dept is actually quite an easy job since everyone here has a IT diploma or degree.
I told him that story and both of us laughed for 5 seconds before continuing our work.
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I know, I sound rude. No matter how stupid the question is, I shouldn’t be insulting the person by asking him which University he grad from.
But it is the same person who didn’t restart the job, didn’t setup the laptop, anyhow promise deadline, didn’t inform us till last minute, arrow me to cover his meeting and give excuse saying he don’t know.
I think heaven will forgive me for being so rude.
on Mar 20th, 2007 at 6:52 AM
oh man, he must have felt damn hurt…
but then, a lot of the times it’s the “worker” that get the works done, not the “thinker”.
on Mar 20th, 2007 at 7:10 AM
you know, sometimes people deserve what’s coming at them.
he certainly deserved THAT. good on ya.
on Mar 20th, 2007 at 7:41 AM
yeah, well said!
on Mar 20th, 2007 at 9:15 AM
LoL, well said though
i had a good laugh… 
on Mar 20th, 2007 at 9:56 PM
Haha…I thought you should have given the guy a break…until you mentioned that it’s that problematic guy…
He deserves it.
on Mar 20th, 2007 at 11:07 PM
So, which university did he graduate from?
Being a non-IT graduate, I thought all those were basic IT knowledge!!!!
on Mar 20th, 2007 at 11:18 PM
haha … is he a mat?
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on Mar 21st, 2007 at 12:42 AM
Jerl: Nope, he didn’t say. I also didn’t give him a chance to say.
unclesha: Nope, not a mat.
on Mar 21st, 2007 at 12:17 PM
laugh for 5 sec hahahahaha.
wah, so fake! Guys can aso do this!? hehehe….
on Mar 21st, 2007 at 10:19 PM
You simply have an interesting colleague.. haha
on Mar 21st, 2007 at 10:57 PM
Come’on perhaps he meant his data only?
on Mar 22nd, 2007 at 9:17 PM
eastcoastlife: OK, I overestimated the timing. Maybe 1 or 2seconds only. But we sure laugh quite hard.
gizmore: Nope. He really meant copy the software from old pc to new pc.
on Mar 23rd, 2007 at 3:47 AM
Don’t blame him.
new pcs have no carry no such thing.
And even in the U they never teach the skill, called GHOSTING
aka..Discopy or XCOPY32 /f /all
heh heh heh
Old timer die hard
azrin