You know you've worked in IT too long when...

alastair79 · 30 Jul 2014 at 16:36

... when you can't remember your family and friends birthdays but you can remember the IPv4 addresses for all 54 domain controllers across your organisation

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XeNoN89 · 30 Jul 2014 at 16:41

alastair79 said:
... when you can't remember your family and friends birthdays but you can remember the IPv4 addresses for all 54 domain controllers across your organisation

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Pfft come back when you can remember 54 IPv6 addresses

TheBDog · 30 Jul 2014 at 16:43

When all customer support feels like you're talking to this guy

peterwalkley · 30 Jul 2014 at 16:47

..... when you can no longer be bothered to forward joke emails because you've seen them all before

... when dilbert is a documentary and not a comedy

... when people know you're going to bite their heads off if they ask you to fix their computer again

yonderblue · 30 Jul 2014 at 16:48

When some neighbours in your street or friends ask what line of work you work in you don't mention IT your some office admin or something . By accident I mentioned to a neighbour I worked in IT Support and they then tell the whole street that you can fix their PC's.

porushinobu · 30 Jul 2014 at 16:49

Rossi~ said:
When you wish you could create a group policy for users to apply common sense.

This
plus,
when you know you have no patience for the stupid, and you know that all your users are stupid

ME - "can I get you to log off please"
User - "did you want me to log off or shut down
ME - *FACEPALM* "Log off"
User - "Okay I have shut it down for you, what next"
*line goes dead*

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle · 30 Jul 2014 at 16:53

...when carpal tunnel.

Cosimo · 30 Jul 2014 at 16:57

When you start writing in binary/hexadecimal.

Mynight · 30 Jul 2014 at 16:59

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TheBDog · 30 Jul 2014 at 17:03

Mynight said:
01010111011010000110010101101110001000000111100101101111011101010010000001110010011001010110001101101111011001110110111001101001011100110110010100100000011101000110100001100101011100110110010100100000011011100111010101101101011000100110010101110010011100110010000001100001011100110010000001101101011011110111001001100101001000000111010001101000011000010110111000100000011100100110000101101110011001000110111101101101

^^ ...when it takes you this long to explain/ say things in English

randomshenans · 30 Jul 2014 at 17:08

When you start threads like this one.

TommyV · 30 Jul 2014 at 17:09

When you associate number plate letters to acronyms you use in the office!

Josh · 30 Jul 2014 at 17:11

When you tell tech support what is wrong with said program...and they ring their tech support.

BunnyKillBot · 30 Jul 2014 at 17:47

you start to see the world as a set of permissions and long for the beautiful simplicity of Everyone

/why can't we all get along.

sashkris · 30 Jul 2014 at 17:51

when your arse becomes bigger than Kim Kardasian's from sitting too long

Casdawer · 30 Jul 2014 at 19:48

when people EXPECT you to help them with said IT problem even if it has nothing at all to do with you...

AshenEdge · 30 Jul 2014 at 19:57

When the computer says 'YES!!!' :eek:

Whitewater · 30 Jul 2014 at 20:06

porushinobu said:
ME - "can I get you to log off please"
User - "did you want me to log off or shut down
ME - *FACEPALM* "Log off"
User - "Okay I have shut it down for you, what next"
*line goes dead*

This happened to me twice this week. Although to be fair, nobody ever logs off, their PCs are either on and logged in or switched off, so logging off's a bit of a novelty. Still frustrating as he'll though

dirtybeatfreak · 30 Jul 2014 at 20:06

yonderblue said:
When some neighbours in your street or friends ask what line of work you work in you don't mention IT your some office admin or something . By accident I mentioned to a neighbour I worked in IT Support and they then tell the whole street that you can fix their PC's.

Yes

I used to not mind helping but people take the mick... badly! Then any problem after that was caused by you and you should now fix that too!

Pawnless Endgame · 30 Jul 2014 at 20:47

... when you can still remember Hampsterdance 15 years later!!

TommyV said:
When you associate number plate letters to acronyms you use in the office!

I'm not currently in the IT sector, but a few number plates still catch my eye to this day e.g. "VPN".