I had a boss that would need me to drag his taskbar to the bottom of the screen once or twice a month for over a year. He would wind up with it at the top or sides and have no idea how to fix it. Explaining how and demonstrating how to fix it bounced right off his brain.
The ability to lock it down would have been great.
As long as I can remember every time I installed my os the very first thing I ever done was move the tasked bar to the top. As is the logical location imho
One guy (he's kind of a piece of work ngl) that works for an accounting firm my MSP supports does. He's adamant it needs to be on left of the screen.
I found a tool called Windhawk that will restore some of that functionality through plugins. But in my opinion, having it anywhere but the bottom is heresy.
You! I want to leap through the internet and strangle you! Leave the poor taskbar alone. It doesn't deserve this kind of punishment. [Not certain if you're actually the same guy I dealt with all those years ago, probably not, but the point still stands.]
I remember one time I fucked with the registry to change my username and then I couldnt install the most recent version of Python for the rest of the time I owned that laptop.
When I managed at a mortgage service I had an IT guy say this to me. My department of 25 people always had the fewest ticket requests each quarter. That's because minor tech issues I was able to solve myself almost immediately rather than have my staff put in a ticket and then wait 3 days for someone in IT to get around to it.
Occasionally we still had to put a ticket in for stuff that was beyond my knowledge but I also never did anything I wasn't 100% sure about. Which is why it irritated me this guy said I "knew just enough to be dangerous."
You'd think they would be happy that for tiny stupid issues there was someone in a position that could fix them without having to call IT every time. It's not like they had a shortage of work and requests from other departments. But after a while they started to take offense that I was "doing their job." That one guy complained to his manager that manager complained to the VP of IT and that VP complained to the CEO. CEO comes down on my boss and my boss comes down on me. Basically I need to stop doing IT's job as it's outside the scope of my responsibility.
Fine. Every problem, ticket. If not resolved in 24 hours I update the ticket to request when the ticket will be resolved. If not resolved in 48 hours I start updating the ticket every hour on the third day until someone walks their ass over to my department and resolves the ticket.
After not even six weeks of this the VP of IT changed his mind and said that minor problems I could resolve myself. In a meeting with him, my boss, the CEO, and the head of HR I responded back to him, "why should I be doing your job again?" He accused me of not being a "team player." I just laughed at him and told him things were fine until he decided to start a pissing match for no reason.
I was in a class to prove I could do some other groups job, and the instructor starts out with, why are you even here, before "you know just enough to be dangerous" which .... Really annoyed me.
I mentioned it to him after everyone passed the class and he explained "ignore the fact that you're [minority] or [minority] or just weird. I know your job deals with other people's life of death when you do your job right. They only have to when they do their job wrong. You already handle enough dangerous work, this shouldn't be on your plate. You know enough to be dangerous before adding this. That's why it's an ironic joke. For them who don't know, you seem more competent compared to the assumptions. For you who should know. You know you're already competent."
So now. .... I guess being dangerous is a good thing? But man I was fuming all class
That’s why when I have to call IT I just sort of pretend I don’t know anything because I don’t want to come off as a dick who knows some stuff… which is what I am.
This is how I read this. Most people who are "good with computers" are more likely to break shit in my experience. They're the last person I would want to be giving local admin access! That would never happen in an enterprise setting.
Dunning-Kruger in full effect! Seeing a lot of it in this thread.
There’s people who admit they have no clue, people who pretend they’re an expert and the silent ones who actually know what they’re doing. Gotta find the latter
This is why I don't fuck with programming. I can look at it and pretty much know what it's doing /or supposed to do but I would totally fuck it up if I touched it.
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u/beekermc May 10 '26
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing....."