# IT man here

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-man-here/643817>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 12, 2012, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-man-here/643817 "2012-12-12T09:16:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-man-here/643817/41 "2012-12-13T14:50:05Z")

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[QUOTE=DrumBum]  
As a member of the user community…  
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Former C and Oracle-PL/SQL programmer here. I guess I could go back into development but unless I wanted to move I’d be using PHP (ugh!) and javascipt (eek!), on top of MySQL (more ugh!).

For now I’m just another evil tester.

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**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-man-here/643817/42 "2012-12-13T17:42:16Z")

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IT gal here. Relatively green system admin, but getting better all the time.

> [@DrumBum](#):
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> I am sure that there is a super secret list of stupid questions/problems from users that is circulated around the IT environment, primarily for their amusement, and I am prominently featured. While they are not the level of the “Which is the Any key ?” question I was told that a few “problems” I had generated a many chuckles. 😛

Well, yes. But if you’re good natured and capable of following directions, we like you. And half the entries on that list are things that we’ve done. Sometimes repeatedly.

(Want to keep your IT people happy? When you request help, make sure you include what you’re trying to do, what’s supposed to be happening, and what is actually happening. “I’m trying to log in to XYZ tool and am getting this error message: [insert screenshot here]” is perfect. “Help I can’t log in” or “Is XYZ tool down?” is pretty useless.)

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