Egads that's funny! Caused me to flashback onto a company I (used to) worked at. One of "executives" was complaining that "the website was down" and IT needed to fix it... then headed into a meeting. Several of the "so called" IT people (almost as stupid as the exec) wasted nearly a 1/2 a day before finally giving up.
I got involved because their idiocy was soon to affect me personally (they were going to power down the entire server room to "fix" the problem).
Figuring it was nothing but an ID10T problem with the exec ...and yup all it took was a look at the exec's computer.
Ended up that they had closed IE -- seems the former IT techie had configured the execs computer to launch IE and Outlook on startup (apparently the only programs ever used), and the exec basically just never closed the windows (except at the end of the day, which was "fixed" when they restarted the computer the next day) -- and so they'd never learned how to open programs or files...
So five employees (including 3 "so-called" IT people) wasted 1/2 a day (and disrupted a LOT of other people with server reboots etc)... all because a PHB never learned how to double-click an icon (and the "IT people" were too stupid to figure out that THAT was the likely problem.)
Jeesh do I ever *not* miss that place.
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