Kev.H

Some Desktop support contractor @ work just asked me is it possible to map network drives using a batch file I just sat there gob smacked for a while thinking WTF how did you get a job here can someone be so stupid how did he get through interview I just said yes you can have you ever seen a logon script

No One knows everything but this guy is a contractor and you expect him to be at a certain level I just sent an email to the boss saying what do you ask people at interview what there favourite colour is FFS

Anonymous

Its dangerous for contractors to know anything.

If they know anything they are in danger of getting the work completed, if they get the work completed they are in danger of losing thier nice cushy overpaid job.

Ive been in my current "3 month contract" since feb 2004

Jim Galbally

kev, the fact that he knows what a network drive is makes him in the top 10% bracket of IT contractors imho

AndyP

And Im out of work

Markb_s1

i'm not too surprised to be honest... most of the kiddies round here have no idea how to do anythign with a command prompt other than use ping.

Kev.H

now some helpdesk tw@t has logged a call about Filemaker Pro (which is some app we use for a archive database for boxes) as a request for email archiving FUCKING IDIOTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Jamz

bet he's one of these people who's blagged his way through his MCSE but has no real world experience.

Jim Galbally

its when they can use ping and think it make s them a super-dooper CCIE aproved cisco engineer

SimonT

I can do batch files....

cant do sata or raid though

Kev.H

DONT I just remebered something else last week we had an email server disk fail up north and the support guy pulls 2 drives out the RAID5 at the same time without being told to

Jim Galbally

lol kev... they're redundant disks, not magic disks

3drstretch

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Wot are you lot on about.

Stealth Bomber

Got a contractor at work at the moment, mega sounding CV, done IT management and all sorts. I needed to know the name of his PC, I said hey what's the NetBios name of your PC? He's like erm....

FFS! Who interviews these people!!

wes

Dell sent an engineer out once ( i was away that day), server kept crashing (motherboard had faulty memory slot), so said engineer decided to take all the disks out of the raid 5 array (don't know why as they are in a seperate compartment to the motherboard) and put them back in a different order

He told the guys on site: when that screen says "finished initialising container" it will reboot and then come back up. He then left

Guess who spent the next day restoring from backups

essexrsturbo

wot the hell are you's lot on about?

Jim Galbally

whenever an engineer says something along those lines (ie it'll work after a reboot) NEVER believe them

RWD_cossie_wil

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rsnissan

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especially if they leave just before

DanRSturbo

Oddly enough, I searched google for the following : Mapping Network drives Through A Batch File and there's quite a bit of info there

Jim Galbally

essexrsturbo, dont worry if you don uderstand what we're saying mate, youd dont need to to earn 50+k a year as an IT contractor. Just keep using random acroynms in conversation and people will think youre a technical guru.

ie:

the RAID set of the ASCII conversion Library needs to Interconnect to the RISC processing infasturucture of SAN arrays if we want to get our SCSI DIP system reading throught the I/O buffer

now, to anyone who knows anything about computers, if they hears that they'd laugh at your face... however say it to a potential client and they'll hand youa blank cheque

Kev.H

he just asked me how to un share a folder

rsnissan

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FPMSL you sures hes not on work experience from a primary school or something

DanRSturbo

Now that's a silly question

I could do this contractor stuff

Jim Galbally

google fookin rocks nowadays you dont need MSCEs CCNAs etc. etc. if you dont know something just visit www.google.co.uk and 10 minutes later you're an expert the best IT people imho are those that know how to use google effectively

Markb_s1

i might have to start contracting and earn some ŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁ if this is the typical calibre currently on offer!!!

AndyP

Ive been doing it for over a year now mate, now I wanna get a proper job so that I can learn how to do things properly

wes

Ditto!

Sunil_FiestaRS1800

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thats so true. I work for a small company that produces a program for estate agents. If we have to do something new like i had to learn how to make ASP's, then our boss wont send us on a course or nething we just get a book at most or have to search the net .

EssexBoyRacer

We got a fella here who when asked if he had any questions asked "Do you ever get any pizzas for lunch?"

But he still got the job!!!!

And now were are part of HP!

DanRSturbo

Gotta ensure about ya dinner break m8

Dead and Gone

Well it could be said that it is possible to mount a network drive via a batch file lol SBS sever uses em by default