IT Fails/Lack of IT skills in the workplace

[AyrshireTon]

One of the English teachers made up one of those "Christmas elves dancing around the office" videos of her department.

Emailed it to the whole secondary staff "Some Xmas cheer for you all", with the video file in every email. Choked the email system and the server - IT guy was doing his nut but managed to remain remarkably calm.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

Some utter cow at work brought the whole Groupwise email system to a halt years ago.

She waxed lyrical about how she survived the Asian tsunami by somehow being not in the least threatened by it and wanted to tell everyone by sending to all.

[AyrshireTon]

Back at Uni (late 80s) we were making programs using Fortran77. 

Assessments were normally submitted printouts and the best way to do this was to open a COMO file - which basically kept a record of everything you typed and did. You'd open one then do things like list the program you'd made then show it running, close the COMO and print it off.

Then folk discovered the messaging service and would deliberately make stuff like "fancy a pint?" and such appear in the middle of your work. This forced a lot of folk to come in early before the trolls surfaced.

[Fullerene]

I recall visiting an office one time where the display on somebody's screen was slightly too left of where it should be so some of it was being chopped off.

He complained that he had mentioned this to his IT department but they were a bunch of useless idiots who never did anything, were impossible to get hold of, were constantly in meetings or doing who knows what.

Halfway through his rant, my colleague turned one of the dials at the bottom of the monitor and the whole thing was fixed.

The man quickly had to change his rant to something else.