Over 10 years ago, I was working at the call center that handled computer service for the National Cancer Institute, among other NIH entities. Frequent caller phones in, asks for help knowing it was an issue where I'd have to send a tech right away. She was Indian, and always spelled her name (like I didn't already…

Manhattan is NEVER a viable data point when talking about real world costs.

So all of these men were mentally ill right? That's what we're still going with? They were motivated my schizophrenia and not by any sort of religious doctrine.

You understand that an Apple Genius Bar is not even close to being "IT" right? Please don't degrade the profession of IT by lumping it in with a "genius" bar.

I have worked in IT for some 27+ years or so, grew up through the ranks as a tech. Sadly I was sitting a dentist chair about to undergo a root canal when the oral surgeon couldn't get his PC (running DOS and Windows) to boot properly. I kept on watching him restarting and restarting the machine only to see it fail…

We once had a Network administrator that complained that our DNS servers were down since he could not ping an IP number. The double facepalm followed shortly after that comment.

Really depressing story.

Worst Customer: A woman called in one day who was having a stupid issue that she caused. As we tried to troubleshoot the issue with us, she repeatedly screamed, literally screamed into the phone at us. She was in-office at the time. I can't imagine what her peers think of her screaming into the phone, but maybe that…

At a former job we used to have an employee who always blamed everything on the USB ports. No matter what her computer issue was, she'd always tell me "I think its the USB ports..." I think it was always software-related issues.

I would bet money they will try to force him to give it up even though he has every right to it.

"We're open to chat whenever you want to." She responded that she wasn't interested in meeting, and the men left.

Not to defend the content, but as someone who played rugby (women's), and who has sung rugby songs before, they're intended to be as offensive and as off-color as possible. I do think this one was particularly bad. None of the ones I remember involved rape. Looking back though, it is weird how many of them reference…

Actually, if you read the whole piece, only 8 of the team's 46 members were even at the party (the others were away playing a game), the party wasn't an official team event, and the way they've been characterized by the administration isn't exactly reflective of the reality, which is much more complicated than "SPORTS…

Oh boy.

"I will not allow sabotage, I'll simply rip heads off," is never something you want your boss to say.

Two questions.

I wonder if that's because you didn't want a wedding, you wanted to be married, which is not necessarily the same thing. I once had a colleague who spent more than two years helping to plan her daughter's wedding. They went way beyond their means finding the perfect venue, dress, flowers, etc.. The prospective bride…

Total cost of my wedding= $24