I miss my IT days, they were fun. I once saw a USB flashdrive taped to a postcard. It was the old owners friend who had sent him pictures from a meet up.
I loved it. The old guy wanted to send pictures. And send them he did.
Also did my last favor for a guy who needed a long ethernet cable for something at home, I said sure, but we need it back by next week. He never returned it. So I told him “I’m not gonna argue, either it’s on my desk tomorrow or I’ll send your department an invoice so we can buy a new one.”
Hah! I’d do that when they were reboot recalcitrant. I’d let them know, but if they were really a pain in the ass, lunch reboot.
“No idea why it rebooted. Maybe it caught an update?”
(No, I managed updates.)
You could also change nothing and make up an excuse to restart.
“Ok I checked the regedit HSKEY_LOCAL to ensure [company software] exists and has correct values, now we should just reboot to apply new settings.”
I miss my IT days, they were fun. I once saw a USB flashdrive taped to a postcard. It was the old owners friend who had sent him pictures from a meet up.
I loved it. The old guy wanted to send pictures. And send them he did.
Also did my last favor for a guy who needed a long ethernet cable for something at home, I said sure, but we need it back by next week. He never returned it. So I told him “I’m not gonna argue, either it’s on my desk tomorrow or I’ll send your department an invoice so we can buy a new one.”
It was on my desk next day in a tangled pile.