thomashohner (6/25/2014)
andrew gothard (6/25/2014)
thomashohner (6/13/2014)
Jeff you must have a crystal ball??! You just described yesterday for me. I actually had to say this in a email to one of our administrator's, "My reports only show what is, not what you wish your staff had been entering for the last 6 month's".I have a metaphorical wardrobe rammed with those t-shirts.
Do you get
<Whiny voice> "Well, the computer should just know"
"Well ... you must be able to get it from somewhere"
Good Lord, I hear those two quotes verbatim almost weekly. I always try to explain that computers/software are just tools. They do not do your work for you. However it always falls on deaf ears :crazy:
I have a little homily I sometimes use, roughly;
"Ok, can I just briefly explain what I do for a living, I teach sand to do tricks. That's all a computer is basically and that's what programmers do. Now <x problem> ... could you teach your dog a trick that will solve <x>, because I'm sure you'd agree that your dog's more intelligent than sand. If you can't teach your dog to do it, I have very little chance with some melted sand."
Cat doesn't work - well, you know what cats are like, so do cat owners. NEVER use staff, we all know the response "are your staff cleverer than sand" is likely to elicit 80% of the time.
It never seems to get the point across ... but it amuses me.
I'm a DBA.
I'm not paid to solve problems. I'm paid to prevent them.