Stupidest work task ever

[JodieWodie]

Now, I am asked to do some pretty mundane, daft tasks at work by some stupid, thick, ignorant, arrrogant people who think that such tasks are beneath them/too difficult, etc..

Today was the most classic I.T. task I have EVER had to undertake
My OH (who works in the I.T. dept there) was, and I quote... 'gobsmacked', and relayed the sad tale to the rest of the department who rolled around laughing

So, 'higher up' person emails me...
Attached to email is 6/7 files that someone has sent them...
"Jo.. please can you save these files to...blah blah"..
and then gives me the exact pathway/link where she wants them saving


It's a joke. Yeah?
No
So, thinking it's a trick I clicked the link... to the folder, dragged the files over. Done. In 5 seconds. It was a true task request.
It would have taken her about 3/4 minutes to write the bluddy email!!

That was the dumbest email I have ever received at work.
I am that lowly I am now reduced to clicking 'save as' for people. That is how little I am worth
Fu*k me
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[Mrs Kickstart]

Hi

Someone here recently send email to whole of IT by mistake, this was then followed by a whole shed of "reply to all's" saying I dont think you wanted to sent it to me. which is very irritating.

The classic was a senior person who added a rant about using the reply all was a waste of resources etc, using the reply all

The higher they are the dafter they are usually.

Regards
Charlotte
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[killa]

If anything ever happens to those files now, your in the shi*
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[froggeh]

It is possible they don't have write access to that folder?

[ali-b]

It is also possible that they are too dumb to use a computer and have no clue how to do this stuff. You have a few options....

1. Do this stuff for them, FOREVER, as if they think you're ok with doing it they'll keep asking you.

2. Every time they ask you to do something like this, go to their office and show them how to do it. Start the tutorial with 'This is exactly like we did back the other day....' Do this nicely and remember to remind them you've shown it to them before.

3. Do the task, it their office in front of them. Log every event and take those events to your line manager/boss/bosses boss explaining that you're devoting X number of hours to these simple tasks and recommend that the person in question get some kind of formal training.

Or you could just blame it on PEBCAK errors

In my experience, people respond to option 2 if they have any desire to learn this stuff and aren't totally lazy - the totally lazy people get option 3.

NEVER pick option 1 as you'll be doing other people's work for the rest of your time at the company.

Alex.