Even IT techs think that "games make computers slower"

carderne said:
A Minolta tech came to my office the other day to get the printers working again. He looked around on the PC and promptly decided that there were games on the PC, which were slowing down the printer. I wasn't there, but he got permission from someone to delete stuff.

There were no games on the PC, but he proceeded to delete iTunes, VLC, some other programs and he deleted my personal folder with a few days worth of downloads and torrents etc.

I expect normal, PC-illiterate people to think that games slow down computers and that LimeWire makes viruses, but an IT tech?
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Whoops, that was me :D
 
WKJ?:beanie said:
Whoops, that was me :D
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WKJ?:beanie said:
You can't fire me, I quit! :mad:

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Almost sounds like a what happened to me a couple of years ago.

I worked as a salesman and one day my manager noticed that my enthusiasm was waning a bit. The firm was very strict (and they were a bunch of fools anyway) so the manager wanted to ask me to consider leaving. I then told him to just hold on a minute. I went to ferch my briefcase and produced a letter of resignation that I have been carrying for 3 weeks.

The details surrounding this is a long story though.
 
Wait.... an IT Tech decided to uninstall a whole lot of things without the computer users permission?... that would get said IT Tech a serious beating from me.
 
Was it "your" office pc?
Were you uncontactable?

As for that IT Tech, my suggestion... have a chat with his manager and chew his manager out for employing incompetent and useless people.
 
ahhh ok...

then i spose the IT Tech did what he was "supposed" to in terms of getting permission etc... but still he's a bloody moron...
 
games make the printer slow?

tell me htf games make the printer slow

how long did it take him to uninstall these slow printing making games hahaha
 
Thats the oldest trick in the book TIAL....

and any decent tech (which this oke clearly wasn't) would look at your 2gig .dll file and know it should be there :p
 
ToxicBunny said:
Thats the oldest trick in the book TIAL....

and any decent tech (which this oke clearly wasn't) would look at your 2gig .dll file and know it should be there :p
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Yeah I was just using that example on that dude :D

actually I keep most of my stuff on my flashdisk (Portable games & portable firefox :D:)

Only problem about the games is that they do write to the registry
 
...well running 1600+ full AA on a entry level gpu does make the pc slower ;)
 
Can't see how games can make a printer run slower - unless said PC was the print server...

But if the printer was networked then I'll look for the problem elsewhere.

Maybe said tech was looking for a quick way out of a difficult situation?
 
yup if aint a printer server there should not be no slow down

unless your playing games and trying to print lawl
 
In a way he's right. You install a lot of stuff on the work PC meant for business use only, which either loads tons of worthless entries into the registry or sits in memory
using up resources or obviously even worse, distracts the user of the PC from his
work. Unless you needed that VLC to watch company related tutorials or something
it was not meant to be there.

Secondly this guy didn't have time to scrutinise every app installed to see what it's effects were. He just did what was probably required of
company policy and left to work on some other problem.
 
The RIAA have no jurisdiction in this country.... and him deleting stuff on the PC is bordering on the unacceptable for me. I'd have a serious go at him, since he may have deleted something work related by mistake.
 
That tech just didn't know what he was doing.

Idiot should be shot.

(And I'm a techy-type person)
 
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