this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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TranscriptThe person disappering meme. It has the caption: "Users when you call them 30 seconds after they sent in a critical ticket with no information (this will come up in the quaterly survey."

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

More like:

  1. You file a ticket
  2. crickets
  3. IT replies at 2am asking more info.
  4. IT closes the ticket at 4am because you didn’t respond in 2 hours.
  5. 9am, you try to reopen the ticket, but the ticket workflow doesn’t allow the ticket to be reopened
  6. You file a second ticket
  7. rinse and repeat
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. My boss sees that I’ve closed 2 priority tickets in a timely manner thus meeting quarterly goals
  2. He gets executed during the next quarterly staff “restructuring”
  3. The king is dead, long live the king
  4. I see our new goals are for even faster close time
  5. Babylon falls, the wheel turns

Should’ve just dug ditches for the army at least I’d be staying fit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Well at least I'm not the only one who's been through this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also like:

You open a ticket with all the information you can provide. The ticketing system sends you an email confirming what you've sent.

IT: "What is thing.file?"

????

Send them exactly what you put in the ticket body again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've decided that's a stall tactic. It's like asking you to pull forward so they can get you fresh fries.

They don't want or need to know if you have version 2.13.45 or 2.13.52 installed, they're bouncing it back to you to game the metrics. The faster you answer their stupid question, the dumber said questions get because they have all of the relevant information already.

Ever notice how they only ask one question at a time? Why not ask all 4 or 5 at once?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

I used to ask all of my questions at once. The overworked folks would only ever answer the first one. So... One at a time it is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Users usually only answer the last or first question, so sending multiple questions doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As soomeone who works in IT I can guarantee you it's not a stall tactic. Our ticketing software is, in fact, so garbage it would take us four times as long to get the information from our system as it would to ask you for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

People don't have the patience to read all of your text and only answer the first question.