Workplace Vocab

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Flint

People seem to think I'm AdminPotent, IE
them: "Are we having any trouble with <any random thing>?"
me: "I don't know, are you having any trouble with <any random thing>?!"

(I don't know what magical mechanism they imagine I get information from, out of thin air!)

As much as I appreciate network Sysadmin folks, sometimes a little more communication would be nice. More than once, I've had trouble with my PC and called our help desk, only to be told that it was a firm wide problem and that they knew about it and were working on it. So by not alerting everyone that they knew of the problem, and were working on it, they were going to be getting 1000 or so phone calls from people like me saying "why's my PC doing ...."

Now when I'm having a problem with my PC, I never know if it's a known problem or just me. I often call the help desk and start off by saying "I don't know if this is happening to anyone else, but ..."