fools
you dont often hear (see?) me talk about work on this website. usually i'm too frustrated, or it will take me too long to explain the multiple levels of moronitude which exist at my workplace.
but, as it so happens, while i was typing that first paragraph, something occurred which is a good, simple example.
one of our administrative (ha!) assistants was complaining she couldn't log on to her computer to get a file she needed. instead of calling the person in charge of network logons, she called our boss. of course. well, she's telling my boss how she needs this file and how everything is too complicated with too many passwords and yadda yadda yadda... for ten minutes. meanwhile, our network security guy is trying to think what might have happened. he checks the security logs, and it seems she's putting in a bad password. "i know that's the right password!" she keeps insisting. "i need that file now!"
for ten minutes she's trying to get someone to understand that she's putting in the right password but it isnt taking it. "is your username right? is the caps lock on? is the numlock on? is the domain correct?" -- all the answers were correct.
finally, she realized, "oh! i changed my password 10 minutes ago."