Comments on: The Top 89 Admin Pet Peeves

By: thomas

thomas — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:32:42 +0000

Users complaining they tried to login 20 times all ending in (unmentioned) errors, while the log shows the gave up after 2 or so attempts and they actually tried to (auto?)login with their password…

Users who complain they can’t print. Arriving at the scene, all the furniture is moved and the printer is placed in a location without a connection or a empty wall socket. Your patchrack list room-socket-device just became useless…

Users moving office, taking phone with them, and complaining loss of connection or different number at best. Arriving you find the phone connected to a former pc socket…

Users telling you they tried to do something, and even without telling how they tried it, asking you what they did wrong…

Users complaining about a big error on the screen they can’t click away. In reality it is a error look-a-like banner in a website they try to click away.
Idem with messageboxes as ‘printer out of paper’

and on, and on, and on….

By: Konraden

Konraden — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 07:15:22 +0000

And they don’t know the difference between the search bar and the address bar, so you spend five minutes trying to explain to them to click THE OTHER white box.

By: Cuddles

Cuddles — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:59:14 +0000

Boss / CEO that insists on using a Mac when the entire company is using Windows. Constantly complains about compatibility issues.

By: Cuddles

Cuddles — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:55:34 +0000

Absolutely cannot differentiate between the address bar and the search bar and inevitably clicks on an advertisement instead of the actual site.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 01:21:10 +0000

When you tell a user “type in the address bar, logmein123.com”, and they reply, “www?”.

By: Steen

Steen — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:22:47 +0000

When undocumented software pops up with an error code and nothing else…

But yeah, I too love forum threads claiming to have solved the problem without telling you how!

By: shane

shane — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:18:30 +0000

People who don’t answer calls or return calls. Especially business owners who think they are too important. Also when you are troubleshooting a little known app where there is no documentation or online help and you have to call and wait hours on end waiting.

By: lZl Jody lZl

lZl Jody lZl — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:41:05 +0000

“to stupid to spell the word” hehe

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:06:03 +0000

Users which start by saying “is the network down?” when they actually meant “I cannot find a file”.

Cryptic error messages (looking at WSUS and SCCM) which don’t make any sense.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 01:51:16 +0000

Abbreviations!! People who abbreviate all the time are either to stupid to spell the word or just to damn lazy!!