Join IT Support For Abuse and Despair

tomhudson writes "The Register is reporting that IT support people feel abused and frustrated, with 2/3 swearing, almost half being depressed for the rest of the day, and 15% throwing things. Personally, I thinks their stats are off: I've thrown a monitor, a laser printer, keyboards, books, CDs, drives, kicked a few chairs, etc. Who hasn't? What have you thrown lately?"

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Slipping disks

[richie2000]

I work at internal support at Microsoft and just the other day we got a call from upper management and since the real BOFH was off on one of his paid vacations, I had to take the call. Turns out that Steve Ballmer had been surfing some gay cross-dressing animal porn website (yeah I know, it was dudes dressed up as women who had it on with male gorillas, or possibly people in gorilla suits, I didn't check that close) and had attracted a few nasty viruses to his beta of Vista that he wanted cleaned out. While I was doing that, he kept yelling at me that he was going to kill whoever ran that website, he was going to kill me if I ever said anything about this to anyone and he worked up quite a froth.

Finally, to get some peace and quiet, I went over, picked him up by his love handles and threw him against the wall. That shut him up good, but I think I threw my back in the process. I tried to see the company doctor yesterday, but he couldn't find my personnel records, so I had to leave. Or actually, security escorted me out and took my badge. That's strange, come to think of it... I can't recall they ever did that before. Oh well, it's probably all sorted out today. Off to work I go!