Monday, March 12, 2007

Memories of ND

Things I will miss at ND besides my friends:

  • Old Senile men who say "I love you" when you help them change your password.
  • The lady who brings in doughnuts after every time we help her with anything.
  • Answering the phone and the person saying "Oh nevermind, I got it." and hanging up.
  • Things all of a sudden working as soon as I'm on the phone with someone.
  • Weird people with the she-mullett who wonder why they're treated like criminals when they break a gate, and then talk really loud in the help desk.
  • Weird people in general.
  • Paranoid Schizophrenics.
Things I will NOT miss at ND:
  • People who think emailing in every day will make us change a policy.
  • People who don't understand we don't make policy.
  • "Do you know who I am?" mentality.
  • People that will not be satisfied.
  • a "Culture of Ignorance".
  • People who's first language isn't English.
  • Supporting home users who use dial-up.
  • "Sorry, I'm Computer Illiterate, so don't try to teach me anything. Ever.
  • Fear of new things and new ways of doing things. ie, people still using Eudora complaining when we encourage them to upgrade to Outlook or Thunderbird.
  • Paranoid Schizophrenics.

5 comments:

amberWIRE said...

Hey Kyle! Thanks for the longest comment of my life...

I found you on Danny V's blog!

Chad said...

Hey Kyle - I read Jason Powell's Blog pretty regularly. Congrats on the new job. Granger is a great church.

Chad Maag
TMM Class of '99

David S. said...

"Things all of a sudden working as soon as I'm on the phone with someone."

My guess is that'll happen at Granger, too. I'm the Network & Systems Manager at Lakeview Church in Indianapolis, and it happens to me all the time. Even more so when I go watch someone reproduce a problem...just happened to me this morning, and last week as well! (Sadly, the one last week the problem did happen again, and I got it fixed, but it was pretty funny to see the guy's reaction when it worked for me and hadn't for him! And this was the goofy pastor that married my wife and I :-)

I'm visiting Granger next Tuesday, hopefully I'll get to meet you! My wife tells me she was in classes with you in college...small world!

~David Szpunar
Lakeview Information Technology blog

Baker said...

Congratulations, Kyle! I was so excited to hear the news! Looking forward to the SNL drama coming up. What is it with me and my obsession with putting wounds on your face?

C said...

I hope all is well with you. Big changes. Congratulations!

By the way, Jessica is getting married on Saturday!