Who is more important..

[draggar]

Pay attention, this might be a little tricky.

I have 3 stations at my desk where I can work on laptops in terms of loading Windows and all of their applications. I had 4 laptops that needed to be completely flushed out and reloaded. Who do you think got priority?

1) A network engineer. This is the guy who takes in the tests from field engineers and looks at demand on the cellar network and decides where to "adjust" the towers to get the maximum number of customers covered and helps decide if new towers are needed. There are 10 of these people in south Florida. (10% of the team is down because of this)

2 & 3) Two field operations guys. These are the people who go out into the field and test the coverage to send to the RF engineers plus these are the actual people who do maintenance on the cellular towers, the "pointing", and construction of new towers. there are maybe 15 of these people in south Florida. Roughly 14% of the team is down because of this.

4) A newly hired customer service rep who will be in training this week and next week where he will be using the trainer's laptop to be trained on his applications. He is in training so he is not having any impact by not having his laptop. Plus, since he is a call center service rep there are roughly 100 people on his team (nationwide and the calls all go to the team). 1% downtime.

Would you believe that the customer service supervisor (a different one from the other post) was giving me a hard time for putting the customer service rep's laptop last?

[SteeleDragon78]

strangely that doesnt surprise me. a good majority of csc sups have been forced to listen to sooo many sc that they start to take on some characteristics of sc's. the "ill scream until i get my way" seems to be the most common. hope you pwned them good.

[draggar]

Don't worry, the new hire's laptop is still sitting in the box it was shipped in.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Would you believe that the customer service supervisor (a different one from the other post) was giving me a hard time for putting the customer service rep's laptop last?

Why yes, yes I would. Some people just can't see beyond their own fiefdoms and recognize there might be people out there who are more important to the organization.

[PepperElf]

yeah... engineers go first.
never piss off someone who may know more than you do about computers (or rather someone who can make your life hell, lol)

[protege]

yeah... engineers go first.
never piss off someone who may know more than you do about computers (or rather someone who can make your life hell, lol)

Hehe my motto as well. Don't piss me off, otherwise I'll make your 5Ghz machine run slower than a 386

[JustADude]

Hehe my motto as well. Don't piss me off, otherwise I'll make your 5Ghz machine run slower than a 386

Underclocking 4TW*... or is that 4TL? Either way, messing with a tech-head when you still believe in magic smoke is a sure ticket to headaches.
*For the win. FTW means something else entirely.

[protege]

Underclocking 4TW*... or is that 4TL?

Nah, I'd simply load every piece of spyware and crapware I can find

[JustADude]

Nah, I'd simply load every piece of spyware and crapware I can find

That's vandalism in my mind, same as TPing someone's house. It can be cleaned up, but it'll take a lot of work.

Underclocking (provided it's massive enough to be immediately noticeable) is more like disconnecting a battery cable on their car. It's not really harmful, and it's a clean, simple fix once they either figure it out or come crawling back to you.

[LostMyMind]

Or you can just get a single slow down app and set it to slow down the computer to an 8086 turbo speed.....

And yes, I do have some games from the 8086 days still.... Shameful isn't it.

[Geek King]

Or you can just get a single slow down app and set it to slow down the computer to an 8086 turbo speed.....

And yes, I do have some games from the 8086 days still.... Shameful isn't it.

Hey, I still fire up the Wing Commander series, and the X-wing/Tie fighter games sometimes. No shame there.

[Rapscallion]

I remember when the first Wing Commander was tried on my 200 Mhz system. Oh boy was that unplayably fast...

Rapscallion

[protege]

That's vandalism in my mind, same as TPing someone's house. It can be cleaned up, but it'll take a lot of work.

I wouldn't actually go through with it...since I'd be making more work for myself. I'd rather find other ways to slow down their machine; underclock it, put MS Office into the Startup window, set their machine up to print on the slow-as-hell HP printer, etc.