The lack of basic business sense among IT guys (like yourself) is sickening.
When the president of the company doesn't know how to work her email, the company has a serious problem. I know how frustrating it is to have a mail server go down. That's one problem. But to have to stop dealing with other problems that effect more than one person because the President can't send a file 10mb larger than the max. allowed size is ridiculous. If you work in IT, you know that the higher ups are typically better talkers than they are computer savvy. That is one thing that needs to change. Using MS Office should not require tech support. When IT is being called over because Madam President can't figure out why her 20mb email full of PowerPoint presentations is still sitting in the outbox, then there's a problem. That you can't see the common sense of this is sad. (And FYI, I worked in management before moving to IT, which is my preferred field.)
"Screw all of the other users and their workstations - if the President can't get his AOL on his laptop then his "network department" (i.e. me, myself, and I) does NOTHING else until he's back online."
I could not sympathize more. It's sickening, the technical idiocy of some higher-ups.
I have to agree. For me at least, IS automatically eqates to Information Systems unless security is mentioned repeatedly to cause me to think otherwise. This writer's entire post screams Information Systems.
Also, judging by the companies narrow view of technology, this person is most likely the network tech as well (to touch the previous 'connectivity' argument).
I'm not relying on movies. I'm relying on history. Human beings pick at whatever intrigues them whether the subject is willing or not. We are curious creatures and our need to figure out why HE doesn't have HIV anymore, why HIS body fought it off, will cause us to find a way to test him over and over until we are satisfied.
I'm not saying he would be locked in a cage literally. I'm saying he would be hospitalized or harassed to compliance.
My point isn't the overblown science-fiction movie you're making it out to be.
Despite the fact that I agree with you on how selfish and wrong it is to deny the world a chance for a cure, I see why he wouldn't want to submit to testing. The CDC (or British equivalent) would turn him into a lab rat or worse. I don't believe he will be able to keep refusing testing. I say give it a couple of weeks and he will be bound by law to help.
I may be going mad, but I even believe the government will say that by NOT helping, he's aiding the spread of HIV and deaths of billions of people. At least that's how my government would do it.
If we don't hear anything about him in coming weeks... that's what happened.
Kudos to sex and dirty words. People curse, people get naked. The best games (IMO) are ones where the characters are realistic in their behaviors. I'm for the traffic light system, but for all the naughty reasons.
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LOL At least I corrected myself (unlike that person).
The lack of basic business sense among IT guys (like yourself) is sickening.
When the president of the company doesn't know how to work her email, the company has a serious problem. I know how frustrating it is to have a mail server go down. That's one problem. But to have to stop dealing with other problems that effect more than one person because the President can't send a file 10mb larger than the max. allowed size is ridiculous. If you work in IT, you know that the higher ups are typically better talkers than they are computer savvy. That is one thing that needs to change. Using MS Office should not require tech support.
When IT is being called over because Madam President can't figure out why her 20mb email full of PowerPoint presentations is still sitting in the outbox, then there's a problem. That you can't see the common sense of this is sad.
(And FYI, I worked in management before moving to IT, which is my preferred field.)
I could not sympathize more. It's sickening, the technical idiocy of some higher-ups.
(I had to correct myself, there.)
Arrogant know-nothing asses are something no one needs in their group.
I have to agree. For me at least, IS automatically eqates to Information Systems unless security is mentioned repeatedly to cause me to think otherwise. This writer's entire post screams Information Systems. Also, judging by the companies narrow view of technology, this person is most likely the network tech as well (to touch the previous 'connectivity' argument).
I'm not relying on movies. I'm relying on history. Human beings pick at whatever intrigues them whether the subject is willing or not. We are curious creatures and our need to figure out why HE doesn't have HIV anymore, why HIS body fought it off, will cause us to find a way to test him over and over until we are satisfied. I'm not saying he would be locked in a cage literally. I'm saying he would be hospitalized or harassed to compliance. My point isn't the overblown science-fiction movie you're making it out to be.
Despite the fact that I agree with you on how selfish and wrong it is to deny the world a chance for a cure, I see why he wouldn't want to submit to testing. The CDC (or British equivalent) would turn him into a lab rat or worse. I don't believe he will be able to keep refusing testing. I say give it a couple of weeks and he will be bound by law to help. I may be going mad, but I even believe the government will say that by NOT helping, he's aiding the spread of HIV and deaths of billions of people. At least that's how my government would do it. If we don't hear anything about him in coming weeks... that's what happened.