Email: Don't turn on your computer!

[giza]

In this leaked e-mail from ciber.com, they instruct their employees to not turn on their computers due to a recent virus outbreak or something.

On an e-mail that needs to be read using a computer.

Yeah, whatever. Twits.

Comments

[bigtig.livejournal.com]

Not if half the company reads email on their linux box while the stupid frikking execs force them to have windows for outlook scheduling :)

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Not quite as twitish as the CIO who sent out the memo that all emails suspected of containing viruses or worms should be forwarded to the system admin.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Seems to me like like the author of the article (Randy Jeffries) is part of the problem. But then again, seeing that he writes for the Weekly World News, I wouldn't expect him to know what good journalism is if it bit him on his hairy ass.

[brophey.livejournal.com]

Well, with the way companies are pretty much issuing BlackBerries to employees when they're hired, I can imagine a lot of people can read this bit of email before they turn on their computers.

I know I can.

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

User ignorance can be priceless sometimes:

http://zorin.org/drupal/?q=node/56

At least the admins here are competent. It's the users that make me want to throw stuff off the balcony. }:)

-Z

[giza.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it seems that some people are going into CS because "they think they can make a lot of money".

See also, incompetant people (http://www.livejournal.com/users/giza/131694.html).

[orca-and-mommy.livejournal.com]

Bingo! ARGH, it makes me want to throttle people sometimes, ESPECIALLY co-op students and interns who say they're into IT simply "for the money" or "because it sounded interesting."

Now, on *rare* occasions, you get a sleeper, who is someone who didn't know they would make a good tech until they were in the situation, and then blossom.

However, most times these sorts of people don't know anything, don't WANT to know anything, and do very dense things like plugging Token Ring machines into Ethernet switches and expect them to work. ("But it's an RJ45 jack so it must be Ethernet, right?" or "What's Token Ring?" *facepaws*) Then, they blow away the freshly cloned machine, thinking it's the build.

In the regional development and support position I've been in for some time now, I get the panicked calls from these sorts of people. They are actual hired IT staff, and knew something a long time ago in the pre-netwroking era but now just do scary things like alter logon scripts for their site of 1700 people. They just don't think about the implications first. (Nor do they do any sort of adequate testing or documenting BEFORE implementing a change like that. *Watches the ISO 9000 cert drift out the window.*)

...and of course they NEVER assume it's something they did or take any sort of responsibility. ("Gee, it must be the servers.")

General Annoucement: Do not join the IT world unless you were born to do it. (Had an innate, ingrained and deep interest since a child or teenager.) Remember that computers as a hobby is one thing. Doing it as a job requires a whole different mindset.

The world doesn't need *more* IT/CS people... It needs *better* IT/CS people.

Orca _)\_

[antimon.livejournal.com]

On a completly unrelated note:) Is the eurofurence 10 dvd out, i wanan get one :) and any indigations where 12 will be held so i cna make plans for 2006

[giza.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know. I'm not on Eurofurence staff.

Try bugging doco instead. :-P

[antimon.livejournal.com]

no, but you're close to people who are :) and i figured you'd be buying one so might know from a patron aspect :)

Will do, thanks for the contact person

Company Wide Memo

[lionman.livejournal.com]

If you are reading this memo, your system has been infected by a very unpleasant virus, and at this moment, is sending out mass, spam emails, having been turned into a zombie for another.

Please call IT to have your computer wiped and reimaged, be prepared for long wait times. And when your IT consultant arrives, please remember that they like small, unmarked bills.

Thank you for your time and effort in this matter.

--Management