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October 1, 2004 at 8:06 am #2278416
Lamest excuses for needing a new desktop
Lockedby beth blakely · about 19 years, 6 months ago
Here’s a fun Friday discussion: What’s the lamest excuse for needing a new desktop that an end-user has ever given you?
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October 1, 2004 at 9:02 am #2724150
I get this one a lot: “It would look better on my desk.”
by admin · about 19 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Lamest excuses for needing a new desktop
~LoL~
Usually this is coming from a person who hasn’t really hardly used the last one (or three!)
I really like when they try and get my buy-in: “Don’t you really think this thing looks old? Wouldn’t this new one look great! How fast is it?”
I swear I could give them last years model in a new case and they would brag to everyone how “fast” it was!
~LoL~
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October 1, 2004 at 9:08 am #2724148
“This one doesn’t hold enough fish”
by salamander · about 19 years, 6 months ago
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…from a friend converting their Mac into an aquarium. I thought it was a valid excuse.
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October 1, 2004 at 1:13 pm #2724054
One I have used
by oz_media · about 19 years, 6 months ago
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My clients always provide my PC’s, it is contracted that I will not use my own equipment or lines… SO;
I have told a client that I needed a new PC so that I can work on more advanced graphics intensive apps.
Of course it was a high-end IBM gaming machine with 256 MB Nvidea card and dual processors. I got the client interested in Ghost Recon and he’d call me at least twice a day to fire up a game over his LAN for an hour or two.
the graphics intensive apps, well I could do those on a PII with a 32 MB card! :p
But the client was happy and so was I.
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October 11, 2004 at 7:53 am #3306391
Nice..
by tomsal · about 19 years, 5 months ago
In reply to One I have used
Sweet, Ghost Recon…still IMHO one of the “classic” strategy FPS games of all time.
😉
PS. In your situation I would of done the same thing..lol
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October 11, 2004 at 7:55 pm #3306172
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October 11, 2004 at 1:34 am #3306480
Lamest Excuse
by t_panicker2003 · about 19 years, 5 months ago
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“If I get desktop I can have Airconditioner in my office”.
From : Thomas Panicker – Head IT-
January 31, 2007 at 10:27 pm #2506399
lamer
by bulcrapthomas · about 17 years, 2 months ago
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i think what thomas’s main title should be is
head “giver” IT
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October 11, 2004 at 2:28 am #3306477
Health & Safety!
by pwadminbod · about 19 years, 5 months ago
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Our Health & Safety guy moans about the loud noise his PC makes. The fact that he has it mounted on the heating pipes and jammed between his desk and the wall, which helps increase the vibrations doesn’t seem to bother him!
Or, how about, my PC is really slow, can I have one of those flat screens? That should speed it up!
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October 13, 2004 at 2:17 pm #3306718
flat screens
by starbury · about 19 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Health & Safety!
haha thats a funny one,
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October 20, 2004 at 3:33 am #3310056
It gets better
by pwadminbod · about 19 years, 5 months ago
In reply to flat screens
The same person called me to say they were trying to enter some data and her keyboard had “stopped working!” No numbers were appearing – yes you’ve guessed it, her number lock wasn’t on.
Bless her! Gives us a laugh anyway…
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February 1, 2007 at 4:09 am #2496168
flat screens
by charliespencer · about 17 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Health & Safety!
“I need a flat screen so I can have more desk space.”
Then they pull it forward so the front of it is where the front of the CRT used to be. All that desk space they gained is behind the monitor, unused except by the dust bunnies and stray Post-It (c) notes.
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October 11, 2004 at 6:20 am #3306422
Slow and acting “funny”
by g.brown · about 19 years, 5 months ago
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I have seen quite a few people who think that their machine is too slow and there is “something wrong with it anyway”.
People actually wanted a replacement machine because they had installed a load of cr*p on it.
Full of spyware and viruses …. really all it needs is:
Format c:🙂
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October 11, 2004 at 12:30 pm #3306267
But [Insert Executive’s Name] has one!
by tomsal · about 19 years, 5 months ago
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Tell me I’m the only IT folk who ever came across an employee in a non-manager or entry level role and they actually try and justify why they should have a new computer because an executive has a shiney new computer.
I actually had a entry level customer server rep (a minimal exp required / $9.00 an hour position) asking why she can’t get a new computer since the Executive VP of the company just got a new computer.
LOL…end users, especially non-manager/entry level — god I love the entertainment they often provide.
😉
PS. This gal was straight out of high school too.
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October 11, 2004 at 6:57 pm #3306191
Wrong Attitude
by gregtivey · about 19 years, 5 months ago
In reply to But [Insert Executive’s Name] has one!
I have yet to meet an Executive VP who actually uses a PC more than once a day to check email or browse the web. They have a PA who does all the work and runs their life, they could do with any old PC.
I will always arrange for my junior entry people to have access to the best technology as they are the ones sitting all day in front of the machine trying to input work or create wanky reports for the Executive to then use. To have to put up with slow, old technology when it is your primary tool for your entire work day is a gross misuse of resources.
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October 12, 2004 at 8:08 am #3306051
I agree wholly, but sadly that is not reality in many places..
by tomsal · about 19 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Wrong Attitude
Your concept is one I am in agreement with. However in reality when the “upper level management” folks want that new PC, you explain that the frontline folks could use that kind of power and they still say THEY want that new PC…you can’t bite the hand that feeds you.
As much as we sometimes hunger to do…oooh yeah…the stories I could tell…
😉
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October 11, 2004 at 6:38 pm #3306193
Leasing ends excuses
by hschoenman · about 19 years, 5 months ago
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We started leasing PCs (for 3 years) about 5 or 6 years ago. Now, any given person is, on average, 18 months away from getting a shiny, new PC.
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October 12, 2004 at 6:41 am #3306088
“we do the most work…”
by wick tech · about 19 years, 5 months ago
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…ya, they do a lot of writing in Word – and even then, not CLOSE to the most amount of work on the machine. And the same people wonder why the have problems after loading freeware games, search toolbars, and, of course, the spyware that goes with all these “tools”. And the same people say “we have the oldest machines here (2-3 years), when several people still work on 4-5 year old systems. No sale here!
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October 14, 2004 at 8:50 am #3305771
Clean you office
by jdmercha · about 19 years, 5 months ago
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User quote: “My computer doesn’t work. I need a new one”
Upon entering her cluttered office, I saw a stack of papers (one of many stacks) that had fallen over and was laying on the keyboard, depressig the esc key.
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