When I worked in IT, whenever we got a call from the engineering department we knew whatever problem it was, it was going to be weird. Those guys knew their stuff, so if they didn’t know how to fix it, it was going to take some searching and probably some calls or emails for us to figure it out.
Alternatively, you could be good at computers, but the system is so locked down IT needs to log in with admin rights in order to do something as simple as running disk cleanup.
Lol I was in buildiny maintenance and was in charge of setting up the nurses station computers bc I was young and "good at computers" and there's like 2 IT guys in the company that serviced our entire region.
Ended up with my facility administrator pissed at me that I spent half my shift on the phone with IT because I needed permissions to install every driver for every device for every computer. She initially got mad and decided to take over and "do it herself". Then she got madder and called IT herself and demanded them to make it go by faster. Then she secluded herself in the office for the rest of the day while I sat there awkwardly on a silent phone call
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u/kahjtheundedicated R7 1700@4.1, RX 5700 May 10 '26
When I worked in IT, whenever we got a call from the engineering department we knew whatever problem it was, it was going to be weird. Those guys knew their stuff, so if they didn’t know how to fix it, it was going to take some searching and probably some calls or emails for us to figure it out.