OMG I so can relate. We had a network guy disable access for a term who is not leaving until 12/1 because HR made a mistake in one field. Instead of contacting HR becuase it was very not ordinary to have this field wrong (other date field was right), he just cut access.
Then when I called him about it, he was so arrogant.
I told him had it been me I would have taken a minute to question it.
I've known dozens of IT folks, from the help desk on up, who complain about how stupid doctors are when they can't use computers, or how uneducated the VP/CEO/whatever must be because he/she can't install software.
But none of those IT folks have ever once thought they themselves were "slow" because they didn't know medicine, hadn't been published, or could develop a budget/strategic plan/public offering. It's as though the only contributor to IQ is techie knowledge. :-)
(Guilty here, too, by the way, so don't think I'm excluding myself.)
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Date: 2008-11-19 09:53 pm (UTC)Then when I called him about it, he was so arrogant.
I told him had it been me I would have taken a minute to question it.
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Date: 2008-11-19 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-20 04:11 am (UTC)And if you don't submit your expense reports by tomorrow at noon, I'm telling your mom.
Regards,
Ted
Accounting
more on that....
Date: 2008-11-21 02:56 am (UTC)I've known dozens of IT folks, from the help desk on up, who complain about how stupid doctors are when they can't use computers, or how uneducated the VP/CEO/whatever must be because he/she can't install software.
But none of those IT folks have ever once thought they themselves were "slow" because they didn't know medicine, hadn't been published, or could develop a budget/strategic plan/public offering. It's as though the only contributor to IQ is techie knowledge. :-)
(Guilty here, too, by the way, so don't think I'm excluding myself.)
David