SLL & The Power Button of Doom
Oct. 13th, 2006 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Tales from the Case Files of Wook's Job. Episode 53419812: SLL and the Power Button of Doom
Our intrepid heroine was sitting, idling cruising her flist and chatting with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elle113 as her boss was out of the office when SLL needed information ZOMGIMMEDIATELY. (Frequent viewers of this show will remember SLL as the lady that pissed herself.) Rising to the moment and doing what she is actually paid for, our hero (we'll call her wook) researched an issue that SLL was given by their boss to research.
SLL requests a copy of the bank statement and wook thinks, easypeasy, I'll print it off for her...except wook needed another coworker's computer turned on because the printer is on a network through that computer.
Wook (oh sod it, I can't refer to myself in the third person anymore), I ask SLL to turn on the computer and she hits alt-ctrl-del. Repeatedly.
When the computer doesn't turn on, SLL hits the spacebar. Repeatedly.
Biting my lip so that I don't lolz in great hyena breying sort of laughter, I watch as SLL moves on to hitting the enter button. Repeatedly. Briefly, I ponder not telling SLL she needs to hit the power button when SLL starts banging on the keyboard and picking it up and dropping it back onto the table (think 2001:A Space Odessey and those monkeys).
I say, you need to hit the power button, [sll]. She goes, OH!!!! Then, she leans over and presses the button. Repeatedly (yes, she's a big one for doing things over and over and over, the WRONG WAY).
She goes, it won't turn on. I get out of my chair after schooling my face into something resembling serious and go and hit the power button. Lo and behold, it's a miracle, Jesus Saves and the computer turns on. I say, are you sure you were hitting the right button? Turns out, she was hitting the little logo for the company that made the machine (it's a cute little square) and NOT THE POWER BUTTON.
End result - I didn't need to print out the bank statement for her to review because the error was an "entry" that she made that I told her not to make as it wasn't necessary. At the time I told her this, she literally said, "you don't know anything about accounting so don't tell me how to do my job". I backed off...and I'm glad I did as not only do I get the "I Told You So" moment but I get to LOLZ at her.
Somedays, I wish I was making this shit up.
Tales from the Case Files of Wook's Job. Episode 53419812: SLL and the Power Button of Doom
Our intrepid heroine was sitting, idling cruising her flist and chatting with
elle113 as her boss was out of the office when SLL needed information ZOMGIMMEDIATELY. (Frequent viewers of this show will remember SLL as the lady that pissed herself.) Rising to the moment and doing what she is actually paid for, our hero (we'll call her wook) researched an issue that SLL was given by their boss to research.SLL requests a copy of the bank statement and wook thinks, easypeasy, I'll print it off for her...except wook needed another coworker's computer turned on because the printer is on a network through that computer.
Wook (oh sod it, I can't refer to myself in the third person anymore), I ask SLL to turn on the computer and she hits alt-ctrl-del. Repeatedly.
When the computer doesn't turn on, SLL hits the spacebar. Repeatedly.
Biting my lip so that I don't lolz in great hyena breying sort of laughter, I watch as SLL moves on to hitting the enter button. Repeatedly. Briefly, I ponder not telling SLL she needs to hit the power button when SLL starts banging on the keyboard and picking it up and dropping it back onto the table (think 2001:A Space Odessey and those monkeys).
I say, you need to hit the power button, [sll]. She goes, OH!!!! Then, she leans over and presses the button. Repeatedly (yes, she's a big one for doing things over and over and over, the WRONG WAY).
She goes, it won't turn on. I get out of my chair after schooling my face into something resembling serious and go and hit the power button. Lo and behold, it's a miracle, Jesus Saves and the computer turns on. I say, are you sure you were hitting the right button? Turns out, she was hitting the little logo for the company that made the machine (it's a cute little square) and NOT THE POWER BUTTON.
End result - I didn't need to print out the bank statement for her to review because the error was an "entry" that she made that I told her not to make as it wasn't necessary. At the time I told her this, she literally said, "you don't know anything about accounting so don't tell me how to do my job". I backed off...and I'm glad I did as not only do I get the "I Told You So" moment but I get to LOLZ at her.
Somedays, I wish I was making this shit up.
