The next time you’re on musical hold trying to get through to customer service, don’t get mad. Be like this IT guy and use it as an opportunity to express yourself through the transformative power of dance. You’ll feel less powerless and burn a few calories too. Watching this is the Law of Increasing Returns in action; each time I watch it, it amuses me more than the last.
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Is this the new numa numa guy?
Combine this with the benefits of working at a stand-up desk and one can be swaying, shifting, AND burning calories all day long while working. Consumerist.com featured the benefits of stand-up desks a month or so ago, and I have been using and benefiting from one since.
Oh, Oh, Oh . . . inspiration moment. Mount a video camera aimed at my back from across my office and create a viral video of my physical perambulations throughout the day. Gotta go set it up . . . YouTube here I come. Ha Ha!
Just don’t do something against company policy.
Wait.
This guy got IT to actually make a support call?
Video must be fake.
Hey now…there ARE a few good IT people out there, me included.
Proud Desktop Tech of 12+ years.
…are you a unicorn? Because that’s the only explanation I can come up with that would explain your assertion.
“Rahrahrah IT sucks rahrahrah cheese and crackers rahrahrah!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_(fallacy)
Seriously? You’re calling me out on a fallacy for a clearly tongue-in-cheek joke comment?
That’s a lot of SRS BSNS.
Not all companies have their BES server on-site, specially if this is part of a bigger company — Lot’s of times the server is outsourced to someone else.
WIN
dude, clean up your workspace.
You’d hate to see *my* IT office.
http://twitpic.com/2zsvvt
My companies refuses to provide us with shelving, or storage space, but keeps insisting we put more and more and more and more stuff into your office with absolutely NO place to stack it. At all. And no matter how much you complain, you get no support, no help, just more and more junk to store. Eventually, all you can do is stack shit on top of shit, then stack more shit on top of that shit.
God forbid you have an avalanche.
We still haven’t seen Maurice since the monitor rack fell over a week ago. We can hear him screaming, but nobody can find him in the mess.
I’d have dumped/recycled all that cardboard. Any paperwork inside would be ditized if needed and shredded. Hardware would either be in normal service, operating in a testbed environment, or recycled/sold/otherwise disposed of.
Never allow your workspace to become the dumping ground for obsolete, or otherwise non-productive goods.
I wish I could, but all that cardboard is full to the gills of stuff. If it wasn’t in there, it’d spill all over.
Despite working for a billion dollar + company, investing in some simple shelving and drawers is apparently WAY too much. I can’t throw out the crap on my own, or I would. Simple shelving would be great. It just piles up.
I can’t recycle the old gear (most has been EOL’d) because my company doesn’t want to spend the money to get somebody to take it away. They wait until Earth Day when Staples and Office Max offers free recycling, and hope that we’ll pack up our own cars full of the shit and make all the trips to remove the crap. We have entire rooms (offices) just FULL of used IT crap going back 5-10 years in some cases, but they’re too cheap to hire a group to take them out, and if we want to use the volunteer services, we’re expected to come into work at 3:00am (unpaid) to wait for the volunteer donation services to take it away.
gazelle.com is ur friend
Got one better, when you “space” that was semi-cleared out that next morning you walk into it allready there or witness the mailroom/delivery guy stacking 20+ dell laptop and desktop boxes in the small space you have to “move” around in. As your boss then comes buy and says ” Oh Drew, glad ur here, as you can see heres your next assignment, and add to that also all the outher stuff i gave u yesterday, that i see you moved over there, is that done?but anyways if you can get that all done today i’d apreciate it.” And by done means setup,image, asset tag, ect plus handle the repairs he gave u and also take escillated tickets and assistance calls. FML
GAK! holy crap, man. see, i wouldn’t even be able to work in that. i’d be completely lost.
perhaps you can dupe accounting into allocating for some “storage server rackmount chassis” if you catch my drift.
Meh, that’s nothing. Working security for a large office building with several companies, you pretty much can tell where IT is- it’s the cubes filled with all kinds of hardware in boxes on the floor, or stacked on desks. When your job is to deal with all the computers and shit in the office, you get more than your share of items stacking up. I’d say this guy looks pretty neat.
On an somewhat related note, who’s thinking of purchasing the Style for Sprint?
What you don’t see is that Blackberry Support is doing the exact same thing on the other side of the line.
+1 internets for you, sir.
I was thinking the same thing.
Now if they really wanted a good long video they should film someone calling lexisnexis. I’ve waited for an hour and a half on the phone to get through to sales. The automated system could not verify the support contract and put me to sales who then transfered me to sit on hold for tech support again(after they verified I had support already).
I practice my moonwalking when I am on hold. Trufax.
The butt-wagging near the end made my day. Werk it boi!
That was stupid.
let’s see you do it then, loser.
I do that all the time! No one thinks it’s funny
Fake. Anyone that has ever had to call RIM knows it’s like beating your head against a wall. No one is ever that happy to call them.
God forbid RIM asks you to remove the battery from a Blackberry so you can reboot it. That takes at least 5 minutes. Meanwhile, the RIM tech has finished two more rounds of Firefright in Halo…
Calling Blackberry makes him sad, so he creates his own happiness through dance.
ok, I think the fact that I noticed the likely CDW box on the floor by the wall confirms that I am an IT dork too, though I would never dance to the hold music.
Sometimes you gotta, especially while calling RIM support.
Yea, that’s about it. We gotta get our exercise sometime.
haha! It seriously does get funnier every time I watch it. I love the little booty shake at the end.
Amusing, but doesn’t this belong on Digg rather than the Consumerist?
Wow… dancing baby is all grown up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x5OXfe9KY