Is IT Support dead?

[sappatz]

it support

it support monkey = marginally better than flipping burgers but you will get the same treatment from clients...

[dr_beat]

it support monkey = marginally better than flipping burgers but you will get the same treatment from clients...

Was it easy to move from flipping burgers into IT Support - do you miss the free burger at lunchtime or did your agency negotiate that into your current contract?

[Sockpuppet]

IT support is dead.

I am generally better than 99% of the "support" guys I see and I also work as a trucker!

Current role I am doing some data analysis with some vba and VB6 thrown in for good measure. Not amazing but good enough considering that I didn't know VB until 3 days ago - learning on the job is the ways its meant to be.

[unemployed]

support people will always be needed, as when the developers eventually break their pc they need a support monkey to rebuild it.

lol, the joys or arguing with developers about not saving data on their local hdd, "i know best im a developer" what if your hdd dies "i will fix it im a developer"

shame they can`t fix the wanky oracle database that crashes every 2 days first.

thank god i don`t need to deal with people like that anymore

[mace]

Was it ever alive?

[dr_beat]

support people will always be needed, as when the developers eventually break their pc they need a support monkey to rebuild it.

lol, the joys or arguing with developers about not saving data on their local hdd, "i know best im a developer" what if your hdd dies "i will fix it im a developer"

shame they can`t fix the wanky oracle database that crashes every 2 days first.

thank god i don`t need to deal with people like that anymore

LOL

I've read some of your past posts unemployed. What are you working in these days? I take it you're out of support for good?

[unemployed]

LOL

I've read some of your past posts unemployed. What are you working in these days? I take it you're out of support for good?

i actually still do support but it is more infrastructure based not really visiting users desktops or anything like that.

i do the odd contract here and their to keep busy , got a couple of interviews this week for some perm jobs so hopefully i will get one of those.

[dr_beat]

i actually still do support but it is more infrastructure based not really visiting users desktops or anything like that.

i do the odd contract here and their to keep busy , got a couple of interviews this week for some perm jobs so hopefully i will get one of those.

That's good! Glad it's working out for you!

[unemployed]

That's good! Glad it's working out for you!

thanks

[PRC1964]

Chim chimeny chim chimeny chim chim cherooooooooo....?

There was an article in the paper the other day about someone who's set up a chimney sweeping business... seems to be doing well...

My grandfather was, amongst other things (like running a market garden), a chimney sweep.

Fortunately our one didn't burst into song (it would probably have added an extra £20 to the bill).

I did make sure to shake hands with him though.