jeans and an unbuttoned polo? That's what I wear to work everyday!

I wear boxers when I work from home but never to a new client, to a job interview (full suit for me) and only jeans if the client knows that I'll be crawling on the ground. 

I am not sure what position they are looking for but if their outfit costs less than $200 I don't want them working for us.

fakepost 

like seriously you can never tell when you're going to be behind a rack or on the ground or under desks etc 

I don't run fucking cable. 

i'm a 1 person department but i'm just stirring shit i wear dressy pants most of the time 

I hate it when the user thinks the monitor is their computer.

You think that's bad. I have a user that has to use VNC to control 2 print controllers. One's an NT box, the other's XP, and his workstation is XP. Getting him to figure out where to transfer data, and where the operations are taking place is like building a nuclear bomb on the sun. 

like seriously you can never tell when you're going to be behind a rack or on the ground or under desks etc

not the point. we get paid well enough to pay for $70-100 slacks every 2-6 months. 

LOOK AT MY STRIPED SHIRT 

http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?StoryID=239&SectionID=11&Layout Type=1 [18+] 

I would always wear at least a button up shirt and tie to an interview even if I was pretty sure the company was business casual. I'd rather be the only guy with a tie on than the only guy without one. 

why is that NSFW? i was looking for boobs and computers...and you failed me once again. 

yes I agree, for an interview you definitely should dress nice... 

Do'h, that was for #49, I'm having an off day. 

You know who the real pricks are? Those fucking DBA's.

I haven't met a single one that doesn't think he's the king of his own little shitstained world.

DBA? More like DBFuckYou. 

baz said:

You know who the real pricks are? Those fucking DBA's.

truth. 

41 is why this thread exists.

I generally wear slacks and a dress shirt as well, occasionally with a jacket or a full suit. But I, too, am a one-man department (in this location). Invariably it's crawl under the desk day when you wear the gabardine slacks. 

I am not sure what position they are looking for but if their outfit costs less than $200 I don't want them working for us.

from mr. salt of the earth himself. 

yeah dbas are weird like that 

where I feel sorry for the IT guys is everyone thinks they're obligated to fix their personal computers. 

"can you have one of your guys take a look at my computer?"
"does the company own it?"
"No, but, is that a.........."
/closes office door. 

yeah seriously 

my hourly rate is 50$ 

you better suck some damn good uhh peripherals? 

I buy my IT guys some coffee and descirbe a problem I have with a home computer,
Then they try to give me a solution without ever seeing it or messing with it.
It's like an episode of House, IT. 

so a guy brought me a stack of cds like here we don't want these do you want to archive them so i'm like what makes you think i want them 

I've never asked the IT guys about my personal computer, but sometimes they offer and I take them up on that advice. 

because they're too busy playing wow and eating cheetos and zebra cakes 

V- A Miserable IT guy will fix your machine for free, but it will include a quick search and review of all jpgs. 

my IT guy is cool... rather than working on it, he makes you fix it, and you wind up learning to do it yourself. I've learned a lot from the guy. 

screwbacca said:

because they're too busy playing wow and eating cheetos and zebra cakes

Pretty much, they can really eat.
I get all upset when they touch my keyboard without washing their hands, fucking dorito dust on everything. 

i know right plus their bo and faded smelly ass black jeans and dragon shirts 

Oh, they are not allowed to wear those in public. They have to change before leaving the basement and their game of D&D. 

rabbiwanna said:

I buy my IT guys some coffee and descirbe a problem I have with a home computer,
Then they try to give me a solution without ever seeing it or messing with it.
It's like an episode of House, IT.

If you buy me a coffee, I'll offer a solution for the IT guys. 

Had a client call in yesterday, their connection was down. I don't do support anymore, but they asked for me, and our NOC guy was only too happy to oblige. They're a relatively big client, so I went ahead and helped him.

His connection was down. I could telnet to the router, ping out, all that good stuff- cleared the arp cache, and nothing showed back up. Ruh roh. "So, is everything plugged in properly?"

"Yeah, we moved a few things around, but I've got the server plugged in and it should be good."

"Uhh, what is the server plugged into?"

"The eth port on the router."

"Well, XXXX, your router is supposed to plug into the switch, and your other devices into that as well. This router isn't handling DHCP, what is?"

"I don't know what you mean, this should work this way. I got the rest of the stuff out of the way to test the connection, and it's not working."

"What do you mean by 'rest of the stuff'?"

"The switch, the firewall..."

"Sir, this isn't going to work- your firewall is handing out IP info via DHCP which points all traffic to itself as the gateway. If you plug directly into the router, the server can't find the address that it is supposed to use for traffic. You need to set it up the way it was."

"THIS SHOULD WORK!!!"

<sigh> 

"so you're saying that the problem is that the switch is in the off position.......hrmmmm, that shouldn't be affecting it but I'll turn it on." 

I don't run fucking cable.

That's the part I like the best. I get to wear scruffy clothes, climb on some ladders and remind the boss how much money he saved by hiring an IT guy that knows how to make cables. 

where I feel sorry for the IT guys is everyone thinks they're obligated to fix their personal computers.

fix two like that this week... Got a nice bottle of Rum for the work. 

I've run enough cable in my lifetime to know that I don't have to run cable anymore. 

scrums said:

big ups to my QA brotherhood.

Testing 4 life.

Fuck all you developer bitches, ain't shit I can't break son.

yahurd.

Fuck that. I'm so "great" at my job that I got pulled into a special project for a gigantic customer implementing new short communication networks and I'm testing the software running it...and needing to approve and deploy things only a couple hours after final builds.

I'm frazzled! 

scrums said:

big ups to my QA brotherhood.

Testing 4 life.

Fuck all you developer bitches, ain't shit I can't break son.

yahurd.

WERD TO DA QA! 

baz said:

You know who the real pricks are? Those fucking DBA's.

I haven't met a single one that doesn't think he's the king of his own little shitstained world.

DBA? More like DBFuckYou.

Thankfully the DBA's I've worked with aren't like that. Then again, I'm a DBA myself...

At my company, we had a server running Windows 2003 with a network interface that would appear to deactivate itself from time to time. Come to find out that it was a developer that was deactivating it. He would Remote Desktop into the server, do some work, and to end his session, he'd right click on the network icon and deactivate it. WIN :D 

when i did qa for rosetta stone i got sick of the it guy assuming i didnt know shit and fucked with his bios and it took him ages to figure it out 

Spaz said:

if their outfit costs less than $200 I don't want them working for us.

Seems rather superficial. Presentation is important, but do you really put a dollar quota on it?

And what if a guy came in wearing $200 jeans? 

ID BE LIKE WHOA IS THAT RAW DENIM 

You can be clean, clothes in good condition, well presented, and business appropriate well under $200.

News flash: People without jobs generally don't have a lot of extra cash to spend on clothing. 

Vonnieda won't take a job that doesn't allow ripped jeans and robot shirts. It seems to be paying off for him. 

ID BE LIKE WHOA IS THAT RAW DENIM

hahahahahhahahhah 

I'd be like, "He musta had on some really nice pants." 

i supplement my income with IT work i get through word of mouth.
almost entirely end user type crap. desktop/laptop junk, spyware/virus issues,
network connection issues, data recovery, app recommendations,
piracy tutorials, etc. maybe a little webdev and consulting.

most of the people i do shit for are patient, very bright at what they do
and figure things out how things work quickly.
they just need a little bit of guidance from someone that isn't looking
to earn a living off of their ignorance.

as a general rule rural folk don't trust pale-skinned people in nice suits.

my first contact with new clients usually has me wearing a sweaty, dirty wife beater ($2),
cargo shorts ($15) and barefoot with a cold tecate ($1.15) in hand
and a toothpick ($.03) in my mouth.

i say something like, "yeah, in my previous life i used to have to do that shit.
i'll be over during the hot part of the day tomorrow."

i haven't had an annoying client since 2007. 

Oh.......this thread has my full Miserable IT Guy attention.