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@AlexDeLarge oh he's definitely a straight up tool. This is hardly the first annoying thing he has done.
@Jilano that's where I sit with the reboot option. I was going to make the chances of it happening extremely low, but I would hate for it to happen while with a client. The volume would be a good idea too if I didn't sit right across from him so it would affect me as well. -
if you are the only IT guy there, have fun but forget the reboot. if not, dont do such stuff, dont do any favors and stick only to whatever you are supposed to do. because if there are other IT guys and he might approach to them with the problem they might actually spend hours breaking their heads with this problem and when they will figure out that you did it you are in trouble.
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@ewpratten running on boot is gonna happen. I'm going to randomize initialization of the main class so it only starts about 40% of the time so I can tell him to reboot and see if that fixes the issue.
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@telephantasm when someone says I'll take care of you, you expect that there will be some payment or barter. Since no definite amount was determined and I spent an hour of my time doing him a favor I said $60 which is less than a standard rate for such a repair.
Do I expect him to actually pull out cash and pay me? No, but in these sort of situations, the party receiving the services should at least acknowledge the favor. I didn't have to fix the computer. Had he said he'd buy lunch the rest of the week I'd have been cool with it but 1 lunch doesn't cover this and every other instance of helping this guy out. -
@sylar182
> I didn't have to fix the computer
You didn't have to even offer to fix it.
If you do things expecting something in return, then it's not a favor. You wanted compensation for your work? You should have told the guy beforehand :P
No questions asked
As a Python user and the fucking unicode mess, this is sooooo mean!
I just started working on a little project to browse devrant from terminal. It converts images to ascii art!
TL;DR: don't fuck with your IT guy.
One of the guys in our office treats his laptop like shit, has dropped it a number of times and had managed to break the screen. There was a nice crack diagonally corner to corner across the screen with a nice black splotch around it making a good chunk of his screen unusable. Servicing the laptop would be too expensive and would mean being without the machine for several weeks forced to use a Mac.
I offered to replace the screen for him since I have experience doing laptop repairs. Once the screen arrived I kept the laptop for the evening and spent an hour replacing the screen. I left a note telling him he owed me $60 for my time.
He sees the note, laughs and says "I'll buy you lunch."
Not only does this guy only keep his word when offering to buy lunch about 10% of the time, when he does actually do it he charges it on the company card so it isn't really him paying for it. So I spent my lunch break writing up a little Python app which randomly fucks with his mouse and keyboard.
I sent him a message that I needed to run some tests on his new screen tonight so I'll be able to install it and set it to run on boot.
The app does things like:
Jiggle the mouse
Minimize all windows to show the desktop
Double click
Right click
Can't decide if I want to add in reboots as well.
I figure I'll leave it going until I get $60 worth of entertainment out of it.
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