We take the server down, start the restore, and I go out, ask if she force quit or yanked the cord on her computer.

One week later, I suddenly get hammered with 3 dozen calls and messages that the database is throwing a major error code, and one call from her saying her computer is busted again.

He went back, told her the same thing I did, showed her the same thing I did, explained it's actually much faster on her computer than his, and that she needed to stop force quitting, because that can and has corrupted our database in the past. Suffice to say, she whined to my non-tech savvy boss came to tell me to make it faster, I told him why I can't, what she's doing, and why she's the issue. It will also run very slowly during database backup, and those happen at breaks and lunch time. Force quitting while in the middle of a database operation can and has corrupted it in the past, causing several hours of work to be lost across the company when we have to reload from a live backup, and several hours of downtime while we reload it. It takes 5 to 10 seconds to reach the server, and there are 85 other people logged in at any point, so it's going to take a minute to respond back. Me: if you just let it load up for 30 seconds when it first starts, it'll run fine. I'm always resetting it, and I'm always waiting. Her: well, it's not done loading, I don't have time for this, get me a faster computer. I stop her, and 3 seconds later it starts loading. We're waiting for it to load, and she starts reaching to kill it again. You could crash the hard drive, or fry the RAM, or any other number of things. You DEFINITELY shouldn't be yanking the power cord. Me: well, you shouldn't be force quitting anything. Her: see? I waste most of my day waiting on this! She grabs the power cable, yanks it out, shoves it back in, and restarts the computer. It's frozen now.ДЄt this point, she had relaunched, and force quit the DB program again, and as is the case with unprotected RAM, it was running terribly slow. Me: well yeah, you get here 2 hours earlier than most of the company, so there's no network traffic, and only half a dozen on the database. Her: it doesn't have this problem in the morning, Me: wait, you know it takes longer than that to open right? 5 seconds after opening the database, (10baseT connection, run through a hub - not a switch - shared with 23 other people, fed into a switch, with 4 other over stuffed hubs) she gives a huff, and bashes out the force quit keystrokes. She first questions my credentials, which is always a great start, and then logs into our overly complex FileMaker Database. So, finally, I go out to observe why she says it's slow. This happens 3 times, and each time I gave her a shittier loaner than the last. Stats for nerds: iMac G3 'Grape' (purple colored, nothing to do with the guts)ДЎ5 inch CRT 800ењ†00 native, 1024x768 capable) No problems found, so ran an unnecessary defrag that was visible through the window of my office in case she wandered by to make sure I was working on HER issue. This was improbable, because there were about 27 viruses that were even out there for a Mac, but I swapped it for one of the loaners, and took it in the back to give it a once over.

(The old colorful flavor named CRT iMacs)ДЄbout 2 months after she started, she began calling and complaining her computer was too slow, and probably had a virus. She needed to have a fast computer, so we bought her a 'Grape one.' Which had the best stats in the building. If you wanted to put your program on a Mac, you had to basically re-write it from the ground up.ДЄround mid 1999, we hired a new sales manager, based not on the fact she knew anything about airplanes, but more because she went to management school. (Steve Jobs had just been rehired by Apple, and killed the Rhapsody project: first foray into Mac on x86) so, application support just wasn't there. Please note, this was before OS X, and long before Mac OS would run on x86 architecture. Our VP insisted we had to use Macs because they're better in every way possible over a PC. But, when I was, I worked for a small aerospace and airplane refurbish facility. FILTER POSTS BY LENGTH WELCOME TO TFTS! TELL US YOUR TALE! MODERATION INFO COPYRIGHT POLICY SPAM FILTER ALERT SISTER SUBREDDITS TALE SUBREDDITS THE BEST OF TFTS TFTS ESSENTIAL LINKS BYE EVERYBODY! < TFTS Top Tales - The Complete TFTS ArchivesД®DIT: I suck at reddit, so my phone post didn't transfer the formatting I tried to do.

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