Josh's Home Page
How to make Josh's Day
(No, I am not the original author)
- When Josh says he coming right over, log out and go for coffee. It's no
problem for him to remember your password.
- When you call Josh to have your computer moved, be
sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures,
stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and Popsicle sticks. Josh doesn't have a life, and
he finds it deeply moving
to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.
- When Josh sends you an email marked as highly
important, delete it at once. He's probably just testing some new Email
software feature, anyhow.
- When Josh is eating lunch at his desk or in the
lunchroom, walk right in and spill your guts and expect him to respond
immediately. Josh exists only to serve and is always ready to think about
fixing computers.
- When Josh is at the water cooler or outside taking a breath of fresh air,
find him and ask him a computer question. The only reason he takes breaks at
all is to ferret out all those employees who don't have email or a telephone
line.
- Send urgent email ALL IN UPPERCASE. The mail server picks it up and flags
it as a rush delivery.
- When the photocopier doesn't work, call Josh. There's electronics in it,
right?
- When you're getting a NO DIAL TONE message at your home computer, call Josh. He can even
fix telephone problems from remote locations too.
- When something is wrong with your home PC, dump it on Josh's chair with no
name, no phone number, and no description of the problem. He just loves a
good mystery.
- When you have Josh on the phone walking you through changing a setting;
read the Sun-Times. Josh doesn't actually mean for you to DO anything; he
just loves to hear himself talk.
- When your company offers training on an upcoming OS upgrade; don't bother to sign
up. Josh will be there to hold your hand after it is done.
- When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print
jobs frequently just disappear into the cosmos for no reason.
- When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all the
printers in the office. One of them is bound to work.
- Don't use online help. Online help is for wimps. Right?
- If you're taking night classes in computer science, feel free to
demonstrate your fledgling expertise by updating the network drivers for you
and all your co-workers. Josh will be grateful for the overtime when he has
to stay until 2:30am fixing all of them.
- When Josh's fixing your computer at a quarter past one, eat your Whopper
with cheese in his face. He functions better when he's slightly dizzy from
hunger.
- Don't ever thank Josh. He loves fixing everything AND getting paid for it!
- When Josh asks you whether you've installed any new software on your
computer, lie. It's nobody's business what you've got on your computer.
- If the mouse cable keeps knocking down the framed picture of your dog,
lift the computer and stuff the cable under it. Those skinny Mouse cables were designed
to have 55 lbs. of computer monitor crushing on them.
- If the space bar on your keyboard doesn't work, blame Josh for not
upgrading it sooner. Hell, it's not your fault that there's a half a pound
of pizza crust crumbs, nail clippings, and big sticky drops of Mountain Dew
under the keys.
- When you get the message saying "Are you sure?", click on that
Yes button as fast as you can. Hell, if you weren't sure, you wouldn't be
doing it, would you?
- Feel perfectly free to say things like "I don't know nothing about
that computer crap." It never bothers Josh to hear his area of
professional expertise referred to as crap.
- When you need to add paper to the printer, call Josh. Changing the paper is
an extremely menial task, and both Hewlett Packard and Lexmark recommend
that it be performed only by certified network administrators with lots of time on
their hands.
- When you receive a 30-megabyte movie file, send it to everyone as a
high-priority mail attachment. Josh's provided plenty of disk space and
processor capacity on the new mail server just for those important kinds of
things.
- Don't even think of breaking large print jobs down into smaller chunks.
God forbid somebody else should sneak a one-page job in between your
427-page Excel spreadsheet.
- When you bump into Josh in the grocery store on a Sunday afternoon, ask him
computer question. He works 24/7, even while at Dominick's buying toilet
paper and doggie treats.
- If your son is a student in computer science, have him come in on the
weekends and do his projects on your office computer. Josh will be there for
you when your son's illegal copy of Visual Basic 6.0 makes the Access
database keel over and die.
- When you bring Josh your own " no-name" brand home PC to repair for free at
the office, tell him how urgently he needs to fix it so you can get back to
playing EverQuest. He'll get right on it right away because he has so much
free time at the office. Everybody knows that all he does is surf the Internet
all day anyway.