By popular demand, our topic is your most terrible colleagues, and we’re also opening this one up for anyone to tell us about their encounters with the IT department.
As our ongoing series demonstrates, IT is a profession wrought with perils: difficult work situations, frustrating phone calls, the hazards that come with being employed by a start-up or a corporate giant. Many of your stories have been about incompetent management and are-you-kidding-me expectations from the boss, but we’ve seen a whole bunch where your fellow workers aren’t helping — or are the direct cause of your midday headache.
I’ve also heard requests from non-IT commenters that they be able to chime in about interactions with IT workers who seemed to go out of their way to make the experience unpleasant. This brought to mind Jimmy Fallon’s old SNL sketch Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy:
So tell us your tales of baffling behaviour from coworkers and head-scratching visits with the IT department in the comments.
Top image: Nick Burns SNL