Even if you don’t work in the IT department, you probably have unlocked or help unlock some of these achievements, whether it’s the “Have you tried to restart?” or “The Network is down.” We all have been there.
You can get the complete list at Evil Routers.
warcroft
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7:12 AMYeah, I have all but a couple of those.
Alex Kidman
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7:20 AMI remember when “The Problem Is Sitting In Front Of The Computer” was known as PEBKAC…
WTF?
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7:52 AM“The Problem Is Sitting In Front Of The Computer” is AKA PICNIC, also Chair-to-keyboard interface problem.
I have had every single one of these situations. My absolute favourite is “While you’re here…”
AshR
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:21 AMoh damn I think I have nearly all those achievements….
We have a fair few ID 10 T problems as well.
PEBCAK has been around for years though
Ash
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 12:10 PMIf you’ve worked in IT support (it doesnt sound like you have), PEBKAC stands for: Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair. Ie, its pointing to the user (or rather their stupidity in most cases) as the root of the issue.
ChrisP
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:46 AMMy Dad’s favourite saying in the Defence force was “It’s a short circuit on the front panel earth”
*giggle*
Stew
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 12:07 PMIs is a silicon-based problem, or a carbon-based problem?
William Bell
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 12:50 PMThe chair to the keyboard interface problem, I like that, this now enters my vocabulary as a description for my lovely wife who is much more talented than me & earns heaps more money, but unfortunately is not good with computers. I love her.
ruffs
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 8:25 AMThe only one of those I don’t have is “voices from beyond the grave”.
chrisp
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 8:53 AMI received a “can you see this” email once. I replied “No I can’t” Came back: “What about this one”? I wrote back: “No; try using CAPS LOCK”. Didn’t get a reply. True story.
AshR
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:23 AMa fun game with that is just setting an OOO reply/ Rule to say
“The email you have sent has not been received.
Please restart your computer and try again”
Only took 4 trys before I got a phone call saying their email was broken :)
Rodney
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:22 AMI have asked people to write down this special error code:
ID-10-T. It spells IDIOT.
Useful when they are particularly painful users.
ZakFMcKracken
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:24 AMSeriously, who put this together? Couldn’t even be bothered checking to see if the images had been chopped & were missing parts of words?
WTF?: you mean “Problem In Chair, Not In Computer”.
Awnshegh
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:37 AM“Good Morning, Could you…” starts at reception and lasts until lunch. It’s why I now ge to work before 8 and before anyone else can distract me from my actual work.
silne
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 10:45 AMAll except “voices from the grave” and all while I was doing my traineeship! What I hated most was the flood of phone calls to tell us they’d gotten a message saying a server was offline and they just wanted to make sure we knew about it. Yeah thanks, WE KNOW ALREADY! (Bloody Netware grrrr)
Nerdboy
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 12:31 PMYeah that’s teachers for you. I managed to get all except “voices from the grave” during the traineeship days as well.
That broadcast message could have been disabled. Netware was a real trooper.