[Rose in RoseBear]

Wait 'till Mamma and Daddy call you from a thousand miles away because their darling child can't get their new computer onto the school's network. Mamma's crying, Daddy's cussing (or vice versa), and the kid, who couldn't care less, is nowhere to be found.

Nothing like tech support to validate your closely-held belief that people are basically stupid ...

[JenB]

Actually, I just manage computers and accounts for our department. So, it's mostly faculty who'll be yelling. That's worse. But there's a staff-guy who'll take most of the blame, and I'm the junior Windows maintenance chick, anyway.

Oh, I'm the first girl to have this job. I'm getting some seriously impressed vibes from my male co-workers so far. Especially since I'm a geek too, some of the female grad students aren't.

[RosieCotton]

Wait 'till Mamma and Daddy call you from a thousand miles away because their darling child can't get their new computer onto the school's network. Mamma's crying, Daddy's cussing (or vice versa), and the kid, who couldn't care less, is nowhere to be found.

*sigh* They call here, too. And you've stated it exactly.

And frequently, they get VEY ticked off when we don't tell 'em we'll immediately run to Johnny's room and hold his hand while he plugs everything in.