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Oh wow! Ok I'm an idiot. That makes sense because I did change my built a little bit and lost some damage stats. Thanks man!
No more a idiot than 90% of the computer using world... and you at least owned it. I run IT for companies and I can not tell you how many times people blame their computers for something they did. It generally goes something like this (this was one of the most extreme though):
Me: One of my team members just came back in near tears, so here I am, lets start at the beginning... What did you change on your laptop?
Answer: What do you mean what did I change?!?!? I didn't change anything, the stupid computer just stopped working and I lost 2 weeks of work!!!! You guys suck, our technology sucks and you couldn't configure a laptop if your life depended on it!!!!
Me: Two weeks of work huh? You didn't check it in, back it up, make a copy or anything for two weeks? Okayyyy then... what were you doing just before it broke?
Answer: NOTHING, I was just taking a break and started to play this game, I have been working my azz off for two weeks on this project and didn't have time to check it in, our laptops are supposed to work correctly!!!! You guys just cost me everything, I am going to have to cancel my vacation to recreate all this work now, heads are gonna roll!!!!
Me: Hmmm... We don't have games on our computers, why does yours?
Answer: I just downloaded it from the Internet. Whats that have to do with anything, its just a freaking game?!? I didn't change a thing! This is all your teams fault!!!
Me: Unplug your computer and hand it to me, you can collect it back from InfoSec, as it probably now has a virus, but they will make sure. Hopefully you didn't infect your whole department... but we will find out. I will let your boss know why you lost all the work and why we will be collecting everyone's computer on your subnet, including his. BTW, if you ever swear at one of my employees or treat them that way again, you will be handing your laptop to HR, not InfoSec. Have a nice day and oh.... sorry about the vacation thing!
That was an actual conversation, not with a marketing, finance or bizdev person... with a software engineer of all people, I learned it long ago, but it still surprises me how little some software engineers know about computers.You would think they would fully understand the medium that they use and write software for, but apparently not any more than most people.
I know that was a bit off topic, but reading this thread reminded me of that.
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