Lighten up, Francis.

 

-sc

 

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Sometimes I can't believe my users

 

I don't play tricks on my users (en masse) for this very reason.

 

Consider, they're wrapped up in doing their jobs.  Most people, IT
included forget what it takes for someone else to do their job
effectively.  We know they need a computer and a certain set of apps
that perform in a certain way, but beyond that, we're not doing their
job, so we don't know what their work actually entails.  Why would we
expect our users to know what is and is not possible to be done?

 

Very often, I'm one of the very few in my office who knows what IT can
do (easily, with our resources).  For illustration, remember back to a
time when someone has asked you to do something they think should be
easy for you to do, but you know that it will be quite a challenging
task which will consume a lot of time.



 

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Bill Lambert <[email protected]>
wrote:

I sent this email this morning to all my users...being April Fool's day
and all...

 

Hello all...

 

For those of you that had your computers on overnight, a new security
system has been installed for restarting your computers.  This is a
hands-free method that was published some time ago by Microsoft.

 

To restart your computer, say your name then say RESTART.  Direct your
voice towards your computer and it will reboot.

 

For those who didn't have their computers on overnight, this should work
once you log into the domain this morning.

 

Please let me know if anyone has problems.

 

Thanks!

 

 

I've heard at least three people trying it and, God as my witness, one
of our east Indian users came up to me and said "I think we have an
accent problem, Bill.  It's not working for me!"

 

Gotta love it!!

 

Bill Lambert

Windows System Administrator

Concuity

Phone  847-941-9206

Fax  847-465-9147

 

 

 

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