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  • Where'd the Hard Drive Go?

    OR: How to piss off the boss in 10 minutes or less.

    We had a bad electrical storm and it fried one of the computers up front (no, they didn't have it hooked up to the power strip they were SUPPOSED to) and one of it's hard drives was irrecoverably damaged. We get a new one, and (because for some unknown reason I got labeled as a "savvy" tech person) boss man came to ask me to hook it up when I had a chance. Ok, no problem, I was a little busy and could probably get to it the next morning. Great, grand, wonderful!

    Or not.

    My immediate supervisor (we'll call them Hick) had watched the debacle that was putting the HD in my computer and decided that that experience alone had increased his *incalculable technological knowledge* enough to take on the task himself...
    ...without consulting boss man. Or me. Or anybody. His neanderthal brain couldn't stand seeing that hard drive just SIT THERE on the desk without doing SOMETHING. So he took it upon himself to "fix" the computer himself- after boss man and I had gone home.

    I come in the next day and boss man comes up again...
    BM: So I see you got the hard drive installed.
    Me: *blink* Uh, no- I never got a chance to get to it yesterday. I was going to do it right after I got my station up and running.
    BM: So where did the drive go?

    We search, and sure enough the new HD is in the computer... in the wrong slot . Hmm? Wonder how that happened? Oh what's that? The computer won't work right? Why? BECAUSE THE HD HAD NO OS INSTALLED ON IT!!!!! They'd sent us the wrong one, and numbnuts threw it in there anyway. He didn't even bother to check the serial numbers (which didn't match the delivery receipt)... or if he did it was "Duurrrrh - numbers is numbers."
    So yeah- we had to pay someone to come in and un-f**k-up his mistake
    This is why I HATE my supervisor. He's arrogant and refuses to acknowledge his own mistakes. Needless to say, he got reammed HARD for going behind boss man's back, and was politely told to keep his nose in his own business. So there was some justice served at least.

    BTW - Sorry my posts are so long, I just like to be descriptive and have poor self-editing skills.
    "Always take a moment to thank the food." - Osage Proverb
    Meat is murder, tasty, tasty murder.
    Backpfeifengesicht: German for a face that cries out for a fist in it.

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    Quoth Not_a_Miracleworker View Post
    BTW - Sorry my posts are so long, I just like to be descriptive and have poor self-editing skills.
    Long posts usually mean good stories. Apology not accepted, and keep it up.
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    • #3
      Quoth Geek King View Post
      Apology not accepted
      Aww... and here I thought I was being all wordy and such. Thanx.
      "Always take a moment to thank the food." - Osage Proverb
      Meat is murder, tasty, tasty murder.
      Backpfeifengesicht: German for a face that cries out for a fist in it.

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      • #4
        Long posts usually mean good stories.
        that's what i was thinking too.

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        • #5
          I think along the same lines as the previous two posters. Besides, it fits on one screen, it's not all that long.
          "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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          • #6
            It's not a long story until I have to hit "Page Down" at least twice.
            Any day you're looking down at the dirt instead of up at the dirt is a good day.

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            • #7
              With regards to long stories, I only have one thing to say;


              MOAR


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              • #8
                MOAR DOKKA ... TALKKA?
                Quoth AriRashkae View Post
                It's not a long story until I have to hit "Page Down" at least twice.
                Agreed ^_^ It always amuses me when I see someone post a story here with an [epic] tag that's so short I can see the top of the next poster's avatar without scrolling down...
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