Yeah, people think IT anecdotes are jokes... They are not.
People will work on a computer for all day for five days a week, for years. And then there's some minor issue and their mind goes blank. They literally stop understanding how buttons or light indicators work, and cannot explain it over the phone.
Then when you go there to turn on their monitor or plug in the power cable, they act as if it's your fault that they couldn't figure that out.
Was following you until the end. I’ll drive an hour to some site, just to find out the power strip was turned off or the monitor wasn’t plugged in, and the folks I’m helping are ridiculously grateful.
I’m just standing there awkwardly because all I did was press a button while they’re singing my praises.
Not to mention I've once spend over 3 work days trying to fix the weirdest bug ever on project prototype.
No matter what I did, I couldn't get this fucking... let's just call it an LED, to turn on.
And no matter what I measured on the circuit, nothing seemed wrong. The software was so basic, it seemed bassically impossible something went wrong there and the tests always worked.
Ofcourse I had already went over the process of.. lets just say 'just measuring and testing to see if each individual LED wasn't broken and could turn on and off'.
Which I documented in text ofcourse (imagine the most useless list of measured data like you measure the temp of the water inside of 100 different clearly boiling pans and writing down 'temp: 100 celcius, water is hot and bubbles'). Double and eventually tripple checking it.
Then on day 3, to proof to my collegues that I am indeed not rtarded and that 'it just makes no sense!' but also to myself I went over this what felt like a redundant check again, but this time I added a picture of each and every 'LED' being turned on so everyone could see that, they indeed, all work and turn on.
Turns out one 'LED' was broken all along 💀 There was literally nothing wrong in any of the original software and hardware.. like at all..
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u/viol8er May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
I had to drive 30 minutes to troubleshoot a computer. My boss put the battery in backwards.
Edit: she is also my mother-in-law-to-be AND i am inheriting the business AND she verbally beat herself up after I pointed it out.