If at first you don't succeed...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
For those of you who don’t know, CIT is SMU technical support department. In reality, they are incompetent morons who do not do anything right. Thus, in an unprecedented turn of events, my Bingo Book for SMUtards will feature, for the first time, a non-student.
The latest addition to the workforce of CIT is a particular dim young lad of 24. He is fresh out of army from which he enlisted late as a result of completing his education at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Allow me to describe his physical attributes so as to enable you, my esteemed reader, to identify the man in question. The man is pale and skinny, and this along with his constantly slouched shoulders, contribute to a very slight frame. A largely unremarkable face sits upon his similarly unimpressive physique. His complexion is neither flawless nor is it unacceptable by societal standards (though it does tend to lean toward the latter.) The most distinguishable of his features include his hair, which he uses as a multi-purpose tool to sport a look that is by most standards, out-of-fashion, and to carry princely amounts of grease and oil. Noticeable also is his glasses which is a black plastic frame, probably remnant from his National Service stint. (Though I must clarify that there is nothing wrong with black plastic frames; it just so happens that he’s the only man in CIT to wear such frames and is thus most easily identified in this manner. Plus, black plastic frames is infinitely inferior to my funky red spectacles from which I draw upon my mojo)
Let all be warn that this man is highly incompetent and will likely do your laptop more harm than good. He is to be avoided at all costs and if he tries to tinker with your computer, DO NOT hesitate to reject him for any concession on your part will likely only reward yourself with frustration, anger and most likely a great big waste of your time. The next section will detail some of the errors perpetrated by this, clearly intellectually challenged individual. Be forewarned that it might get a bit technical if you are a computer illiterate, but take comfort in the knowledge that I am a genius and know what I am talking about and that this baboon is a moron.
First of all, I had to configure my laptop to log into the school domain and to do that, you’d have to go to the ‘My Computer’ properties and select the domain option there. However the checkbox to check that option was grayed out. So what was a computer technician to do? Why repeatedly click on the grayed out box then. I mean that made perfect sense! If you clicked on the grayed out box quickly or often enough, it would possibly, nay
probably right itself and become selectable again! Gosh I can
really tell that 3 years of education in Ngee Ann really paid itself off. Personally I wouldn’t have been able to do that without formal computer training. And no, he doesn’t do it once, nor twice nor even thrice. He just kept fiddling around with my computer and went back to that screen every few minutes to rapidly click on the grayed out box… again!
Basically he went on for like an hour not doing anything before he consulted one of the older staff who promptly figured out the problem in 5 minutes. Thanks moron, for wasting my afternoon. Think that’s the end? Think again. So finally after formatting my laptop, half my hardware was missing their drivers and couldn’t function. This includes my Ethernet card and my Network card driver and this basically means I could not connect to the internet. So Mr. I-have-thumbtacks-for-brains figures that you know, I’m missing drivers, let’s look for it on the Internet. Rrrrrrrr-right. Hello? Einstien? My drivers are missing. How do you use the Internet to search for the drivers if I need drivers to allow my laptop to access the Internet? With the obvious plainly lost on him, he proceeds to command my computer to search the Internet for suitable drivers for my network card. Oddly enough the entire process fails. So he proceeds to command my computer to search the Internet for suitable drivers for my Ethernet card which for reasons unexplainable to man, fails again. So he decides to command my computer for one last time, to search the Internet for suitable drivers for my network card yet again. His head is so dense that light slows to a near crawl when traveling in and out of his ears. Perhaps he takes great heed to age old adage of “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again," except that in this case Failure is a barren woman who will never mother anything, least of all success.
You’d think that the story ends here and that it was an isolated incident. Nay meinen freund. For my friend, Joshua, karma caught up with his yesterday and his CIT helper was the above mentioned. Long story short, Joshua ended up having to reformat his computer and when I asked him to describe the problem to me, I realized it was painfully simple and I could have fixed it in 2 minutes. Yet another victim of the CIT moron. Sigh*
Things on my mind:
Stupidity and how it manifests itself in so many ways
Boobs
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