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What industry do you work in and what are the LPT the general public should know about it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Give us the cheat codes to your industry/place of work!

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[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have great service with IT people because I do this by default. I'll have already tried some steps myself, so I'll give them info about what exactly works, doesn't work, and things that I can or can't do that might be related to the main issue.

They really appreciate the detail.

[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel bad that my old job's IT department would never trust me when I listed this amount of detail, so I stopped putting in the extra effort.

My ticket: I am not able to login using the standard portal. The error I recieve is X. I have already tried rebooting. I have confirmed that everything was fully plugged in and that I am on the correct network. I also already went through the normal recovery process which did not work. Here is the result, [X].

The first response from IT: Why don't you try rebooting and then let me know if it's working. If not, go through the normal recovery process.

Like, I get it, you're being thorough and don't want to just blindly trust the user, but I'm only talking to you because I already tried your quick fixes. Please understand.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reasoning: For everyone one You, we have a 1000 not-You. But the other 1000 say almost the same as you.
Once you experience that you become jaded and assume they are either lying or tell or miss some details. But we know our usuals and if we notice the name we might assume you know x and y more than the usual.

Please dont stop putting in the last mile :)

[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I get that. I think it's partially to do with how rarely I'll have an actual issue. Also with their turnover rate, I rarely interact with the same tech twice.

I still do all the legwork to figure out if it's something I can fix myself and always put specifics (Repro steps, Error Codes, etc.), but pulled back on listing every other step I've already tried.