And the stupidity continues..

People never cease to amaze me. Recently we have had users whining or in a panic about the fact that their new computer.. built all shiny and fresh in 2009, doesn't have a floppy drive in it. A FLOPPY disk drive. That is like saying I won't take that new stereo system with the 100 disk CD changer, digital tuner with HDMI ports and 5.1 surround sound because it lacks an 8-track player. Or walking into the store and trying to pick up a cellular phone, but telling them you will only take it if you can get one with a rotary dialer. Wake up and join the rest of us in the digital age.

For this desktop transition I made a temporary server for users to copy their music too. Technically speaking, if its not business related, its not supposed to be on a work PC. However, because we are nice, we try to accomodate people and let them have those little things that makes the day go bye fast, like their music. As long as the music is stored locally and not on the server, we allow it. So to help people transition to their new PCs without losing their music I created a temporary server for them to use as a storage point instead of everyone trying to copy music out to their user directories and overloading our file and print servers. I sent out directions and an explination of what was allowed and how to do it all. Step by step. Every click and every thing you needed to type was in there. I am fairly certain any toddler that has mastered the use of his hands and fingers and can read the instructions could have handled it.

Here, however, we have grown adults pulling in good salaries that apparently can't. We had a user copy her music out to this temp server like she was supposed to. However, when it came time to copy it back to her local C: drive, she failed. On an epic level. Instead of selecting her music folder from the temp server, she managed to select EVERYONES folder. And then, instead of copying it to her C: drive, she attempted to copy it to her user folder. So instead of a couple hundered MP3s ending up on her local drive, she attempted to copy upwards of 13,000 of them to her home directory. Essentially managing to single handedly do exactly what we were trying to avoid in the first place. Filling up and overloading the file server. /sigh

Just goes to show you.. try to make something idiot proof and along comes a better idiot. Have a great plan in place? No problem. They will find a way to fuck it up. As they say, where there is a will, there is an moron that is going to screw the pooch there is a way!

But enough of that.. here's some Jim Gaffigan to take you into the weekend!