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We all have them, let's share some stories about them. What kind of support person are you? Kudos to explanations of how you [un]civilly dealt with them!

EDIT: Ok, let's hear some more. Really I just need to know I'm not alone today after dealing with some of my "favorite" people....

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a ha ha, this should be interesting (if it doesn't get closed) – username May 15 '09 at 22:54
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I like it (fully appropriate for it to be CW, of course) – David Zaslavsky May 16 '09 at 3:05
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Just about all of the stories posted here can be copied straight to thedailywtf.com :) – Niels Basjes Jun 27 '09 at 12:00
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We all have a boss that good at something, but never at IT. Then mine is the best worst boss ever.

About 1 year ago, with my collegue we worked our ass off to have a stable network with security policy, (ldap, proxy, internet quota, mail accout, and so on).

We were really happy and proud that our work was over around june. The problem is, our boss thought that just installing an air conditionner for the server room was good enough. But unfortunatly you have to refuel the gas. So the air conditionner was venting hot air.

I report the problem, his solution stopping all servers. Well good idea, no one was there for the next week, so a good solution until the air conditionner is fixed. I'm going to the server room, start to shutdown the server.... no, my boss find to long, and shut down the breaker of the server room.

In result 1 year of work destroy, all drive didn't support the electric shortage. Fortunatly, we were still having the previews server, so we put them online ASAP. But still after destroying our work, our boss said to us "Well, it's your fault. It's your job to fix the air conditionner! It's not my fault!"

Since then we let him be when he got some virus from porno website.

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