Back in August, Allan Hirt (blog|twitter) tweeted:
In the roughly 25 years of I have been in IT, we're still dealing with the same problems.
— Allan Hirt (@SQLHA) August 30, 2016
I had a slow day, so I generated a storm of responses. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is inspired by this tweet. Here’s my list of problems:
The 15 minutes needed to start a conference call. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
The guy who rebooted the production server in the middle of the day because he didn't think anyone used it (They do) https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Being asked "Did you try rebooting it?"
Giving the person crap
Realizing that you haven't rebooted
Rebooting works. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Having 10 dongles in your bag, but not the one you need to connect your machine to this projector. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Your default browser magically reverting back to IE (now Edge). https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Outlook.
Every damned thing about Outlook. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Install 95% complete.
Translation: Install is still going. We have no idea how much longer this will take https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Spaces in file paths. Breaking all the things. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Your password. You know the one. You really should go change it. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Users who expect "Backwards compatible" to be the same as "forwards compatible." https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Keyboards that die because you spilled your coffee/soda on them. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
The insistence of Support techs that your problem's fixed in the latest update. Call again after you install updates https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Conference T-shirts that are a plague on fashion. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
The IT guy that really does live in his mom's basement, perpetuating the stereotype. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
The sysadmin who tells you how much better Novell was. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
The sysadmin who tells you how much better NT4 was. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Your inbox is full. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
There is exactly 1 day after the latest tech is no longer overpriced, but before it is obsolete. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
The SAN is running low on storage. Do you really need that big of a disk? https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Realizing that you didn't need anyone to give you the URL because you would have guessed it first try /cc @billinkc https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
There's always someone speaking a language you don't understand. Who's Ruby? Is she married to JSON? https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Auto-reboot from Windows Updates, even though you told them not to install.
/cc @AaronBertrand https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
The server naming convention has changed 3 times
You have servers with all 3 name conventions
There is no convention https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
The user who realizes right click is a thing and always needs to know "Right click or left click?" https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
IP v4 https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Everyone who isn't in IT assumes you know everything about IT. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
No, I cannot fix your laptop. Stop visiting shady porn sites, and this wouldn't be a problem. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Sure, I'll fix your laptop. My consulting rate is $200/hr. Oh, you thought I'd do it for free? Sorry, Mom. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
The Fn key is to the left of Ctrl on a ThinkPad laptop. Still. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Sorry, we can't change that because there's a client who still does that the dumb way. https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9
— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016
Someone decided it was a good idea to put a version in a path name. Now you're stuck with it.
(PowerShell v1.0!) https://t.co/Ql2XEuIMD9— Andy ᴹᴬᴸᴸᴼᴺ (ᴀᴍ²) (@AMtwo) August 30, 2016