*snerk* Tech Guys Don't Care

[juldea]

So, while I'm here at work, it's hardly ever I don't have Winamp, two instances of Trillian, and mIRC open. And often lots of other fun stuff as well.

Earlier today I opened a Help Desk ticket for some tech support for something work-related. A few minutes ago I received a call from a guy who asked me my PC number and then told me to click "yes." The box was for, "Give me access to your desktop." I didn't think and clicked yes immediately...

Luckily Outlook was in the foreground, and not the pictures of dog-on-man-sex and guys snorting cocaine off of women's asses that were being populated in IRC today (I really could link, but I won't). But still, if this IT guy knew ANYTHING he saw at least saw the mIRC window and the Trillian systray icons. And Firefox opened to Gmail. And yet he didn't say a word. ;)

...but I wonder if he'll tell on me?

I suppose I'll burn that when I get to it!

Comments

[skybabie.livejournal.com]

From what I've learned it isn't kidding - back when I did work with 2 different companies the files we kept on everyone were almost scary... :)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Hehehe awesome, I wonder what my browser history's like with them, then!

[skybabie.livejournal.com]

We would change peoples backgrounds to the most rank items they had in their history for the next day when they would restart the system, the look we would get on their faces was hilarious - I think the worst mistake I ever made though was doing tech support I jokingly told some woman to go to a dos prompt and type format C: and umm well lets just say I was seriously yelled at and had to allow her to bring her computer in to rebuild at my cost. :P

[crazybone.livejournal.com]

Format C:?
Sheesh, that's just plain mean.
The most amusing one I heard was changing some guy's
startup sound to the theme from "Wonder Woman".
That and secretly remoting to someone's desktop and
playing with the pointer so they thought there was something
wrong with their mouse.

[skybabie.livejournal.com]

I didn't think the poor woman would really do it :P I learned my lesson though and got everything back and working and got the nice warning of "if you ever do that again you won't have a job here..." etc and the rest was history :) Though the peeople that call into help desks I must say really are pretty sad, I even had a few that didn't check power switches - I didn't think it was possible until I had someone call in and tell me the monitor wasn't coming on, turned out to be the button wasn't pushed in hard enough to actually "turn on" :).