Yes

Aleve does a wonderful job on pain for me, but unfortunately it also makes my throat swell shut.

Ah, well.

No worries, Teppy. I'm sorry you are feeling cruddy.

I actually had to tell one of my PMs to reboot his computer. He was asking me Excel questions yesterday and today he was complaining about it lagging and added that everything on his computer lags. Ummm, when was the last time you rebooted? Months ago, eh? How about you give that a shot?

Ummm, when was the last time you rebooted? Months ago, eh? How about you give that a shot?

Yeah, this is my students here too. "I can't connect to the show computer. My network pref's are wonky. Everything looks right. Blah blah blah." When was the last time you re-booted. "Oh, that shouldn't make a difference." Humor me. "wow, it worked. OK, thanks."

My favorite is when they get petulant, and holler how "well, it shouldn't be like that. It should work the way it's supposed to". Funny, I think that about the TA's too, but that doesn't get them doing the work right either. t snerk

Unfortunately, "booting" TAs is against the law.

My favorite is when they get petulant, and holler how "well, it shouldn't be like that. It should work the way it's supposed to"

twitch, twitch.

You'd think rebooting was an acknowledgement of failure or something. Of course all it's revealing as they they never bookmarked their favorite porn website and if they have to close the tab they're afraid they'll never get back to it.

I'm sorry it's going to take 5 minutes out of your life to power down your computer and bring it back up. Hit restart and get a latte already.

Much, much heart~ma to your dad, Steph.

Aleve does a wonderful job on pain for me, but unfortunately it also makes my throat swell shut.

who needs to breathe when you have pain relief?

The added bonus is that our company pushes various updates that only happen when you reboot, so if you don't reboot on any kind of reasonable basis, you will have multiple updates that have to run. So he had to whine about that too.

Whatever. You would think that is computing 101. Computer acting in any way wonky - reboot. Slow - reboot. Not connecting - reboot. I should have told him to call our technical assistance center.

We used to send out a file that had been, unfortunately, rigidly formatted (page breaks, column breaks, section breaks ... oy) but we'd found that if it looked weird a lot of the time switching views (from layout to draft and back) would clear up the problem. I once had a guy on the phone who, when I told him this, argued back and forth about it, asking why changing the view would help, it didn't make any sense ... until one of his tech support people came in and, while he was whining at me, changed the view, changed it back, and WOW! it worked! He thought his tech support person had worked a miracle ....