Useless ....

Dude: "Sorry, can you help, forgot how PARTED works, need to add that disk and can't manage that"
Me: " <Sarcasm> I wish we'd have a Linux certified guru here </Sarcasm>"
Dude: "haha, can you help"
Me: *logs in* "Dude, this is a LVM"
Dude: "Ah ... ok ... so ...."
Me: "So sod off and google it yourself"

Man ... how annoying ....

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tiersten

Mmm... I'd be more worried about the fact he was a few minutes from blowing away your LVM PVs with parted.

jibbajabba

tiersten wrote: »

Mmm... I'd be more worried about the fact he was a few minutes from blowing away your LVM PVs with parted.

It is a virtual machine - that made it worse because

Me: "You know our policy to create snapshots when messing with disks right"
Dude:" Yes"
Me: "There is no snapshot"
Dude:" Oh"

I am in the wrong job I think ... can't handle people like that anymore .. I am too old for this lol

tiersten

Gomjaba wrote: »

I am in the wrong job I think ... can't handle people like that anymore .. I am too old for this lol

Yeah. This isn't just cluelessness but dangerous incompetence which is another thing entirely. I'm surprised you've not been hitting your head against the wall!

Tell this guy to go sit in the corner quietly and to never ever touch anything again

UnixGuy

usually we don't allow those people to touch hard drives

Wait is the "dude" a customer of your company ???

bertieb

tiersten wrote: »

Tell this guy to go sit in the corner quietly and to never ever touch anything again

Apart from the kettle

tiersten

bertieb wrote: »

Apart from the kettle

Ah yes. +1

veritas_libertas

Gomjaba wrote: »

It is a virtual machine - that made it worse because

Me: "You know our policy to create snapshots when messing with disks right"
Dude:" Yes"
Me: "There is no snapshot"
Dude:" Oh"

I am in the wrong job I think ... can't handle people like that anymore .. I am too old for this lol

Yikes! The scary part is that I recognize these people.

tiersten

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Yikes! The scary part is that I recognize these people.

It sounds suspiciously like a couple of the field engineers that I've had visit in the past. Usually they're great and know exactly what they're doing but I've gotten a few where they should be renamed field monkeys because they're just there bashing on the keyboard hoping for something to happen.

Devilsbane

tiersten wrote: »

Tell this guy to go sit in the corner quietly and to never ever touch anything again

Where do I apply for this job? Don't get me wrong, I love to dig into things. But if I could be paid to go back to kindergarten, that would be even better.