th Skoda advert is a piece of advertising genius.

I stumbled headlong into the I Am Legend trailer last night and was immediately hooked!

I was just thinking about Farenheith 451 the other day. It’s interesting to get the author’s take on his work as we’re not sitting around wondering what he intended.

I wish Philip K. Dick was still around to see what hollywood was doing to his stories. Some of them are ok, and some are downright atrocious!

And the reason IT people aren’t completing things on time is probably because we’re not given 1) proper funding 2) proper information 3) proper planning 4) proper, well, anything.

My first IT gig was a “6 month” contract for a government rollout which turned into a 12 month contract since for the first 6 months the network side of the rollout was not complete, at all.

Oh yes, that Skoda ad is too cool!

Also, the rasterbater is super-cool!

“My first IT gig was a “6 month” contract for a government rollout which turned into a 12 month contract since for the first 6 months the network side of the rollout was not complete, at all.”
But wouldn’t an IT team have been in charge of the network side??

The current bane of my IT life is an email server migration that is taking place at work. Personally I only had a minor problem when they migrated me which was quickly resolved, but most people have had a lot of problems. This means everyone is trying to call the service desk, which means if you want to report any other fault you have to sit in the phone queue for a minimum of 20 minutes before you can actually speak to someone. The IT department thought the migration would go a lot smoother than it has and didn’t bother to hire any extra support staff for the duration or put in a separate phone line just for email problems.

Nothing against the actually IT staff who are working very hard to get it done. But somebody messed up the planning. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that moving 7000+ email accounts to a new server (while people are still trying to use them) might cause problems.

The New York Times obviously hasn’t seen how many males I’ve had to help with computer problems. It’s not as if it takes a penis to use a mouse and keyboard. God, you’d think they were writing from another era.

A mouse you could use with your penis. There’s a novel idea.

peroty - I point you to what Moose said. Some IT guys are great (I have four who I have on speedial at work). But unfortunately the majority are giving you a bad name. And don’t even get me started on the email migration…

Analisa - welcome to Bright Meadow and the comments Yes, they are both very cool.

Leila… Rich…

Nope. I really have nothing to say to either of you. The mental images you’ve conjured up have quite finished me for the day!

I suppose it would be quite hard to use.

I wonder what the repetitive strain injury avoidance advice would be?

Rich, please, for the sake of my sanity and computer keyboard - it can’t cope with many more cups of tea being sprayed over it as I giggle like a nutter - stop! Please, just stop!

I agree, the network team is still a bunch of IT guys. In my case, all indian, on site at least, but trying to understand them and motivate them was next to impossible.

I think the biggest issues in IT comes from the fragmentation of the industry in the name of saving money.

Take for example the site I’m on now.
I perform desktop support. I’m it. Just me.
There is an IT Lead on site who deals with some of our network apps.

There is NO SERVER TECH ON SITE. None.
IBM has that contract. So we have to call and hope to get ahold of someone to fix anything. Then god forbid they have to come out here! (We’re in the middle of nowhere in rural central Virginia).
I’m here through one company and a Dell technician (on paper). IBM covers the network work. And our phone support, is yet a third person through a third company.

If we were all from the same company or *gasp* full-time employees, I think there would be a lot more loyalty towards the company, integration in our work and communication.

I think there’s a lot of things that have been made worse by all of us being essentially pawns in the IT game, to serve or not serve at the whims and wills of the faceless manager we’re working for. (My manager is about 150 miles north of here, I’ve met him twice, once was the interview).

But I’ll stop ranting here in your comments box now and get off my soapbox.

Nothing against the actually IT staff who are working very hard to get it done. But somebody messed up the planning. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that moving 7000+ email accounts to a new server (while people are still trying to use them) might cause problems.

You’ve hit another nail on the head! A “secret” about IT work is that often times, the people making these decisions have no idea what this actually entails!

I remember being ordered to install software that we know didn’t work correctly (printing from it was completely broken). This order came down from the IT Manager in the company, who we told over and over this was broken. But she got her way, and as a result, we had lots of angry people.

I totally agree with you that if someone would simply think these things through, email server moves, roll outs, and the like would go much, much smoother.

“Sorry, not tonight darling. I don’t think I can. It’s been a hard day at work.”

Sorry. I’ll stop.

““how is it going at work Cas?””

I haven’t exactly had such an opportuinty in a long time

Was that a guilt trip? I think so!

And now I need to wash out my mind.

I second moose.

mental bleach please.

It was a good idea!

No sweetie, it wasn’t.