Interview today, any tips.

[gobbo]

What an ar*e, if thats what your employer is going to be like, do you really want to work for him?

Plus, i never knew doctors were IT experts aswell?

[Bazzlad]

He was reading everything off a piece of paper (Obviously written by the last IT guy)
The bloke made eye contact with me twice. In 30 minutes. Twice.

[killgORE]

sounds like a weird doc.. did he get his speciality in being a diq ?

I think you diagnosis comparison was pretty spot on.

Plus I would have done what you suggested with the bust PC before thinking of replacing it. Since it is more work to lug in another box and put the dead ones hard disk in it. WOE betide the IT guy that gives a replacement that doesn't have all Dr.coqs "stuff" on it.

Plus it is most likely loose memory, graphixxx card, or IDE cable/connections that is wrong. <- assuming external cables have been checked first like u said.

I think it is wrong to leave a place on good terms. Like the Docs previous IT guy, and NOT to take part in the interview for your replacement since you are the only one that knows your job.

One of my last interviews was like this. The IT guy was part-time because the d00d that did all the work was good enough to get poached. part-timer ACTUALLY worked in accounts. knew squat and I am sorry. but I can only take about 10 min of stupid questions before i crack. I have a higher tolerance when I am getting paid for my time.

He also, obviously, had not read my CV. Made no attempt to go over it with me, and ALL his dumb questions were answered therein. "have you used windows ?", YES. bloody yes. as administrator and a networked user since win 3.1. You run DOS ? yes i used that before. it was a simpler... better time. with fairies and elves and the like.

Good luck with the job anyway. Since at least a job pays cash

[Raz316]

Woah, what a moron, trying to employ someone based on a bunch of questions he obviously knows nothing about, great...

Any decent IT employee would have said exactly the same as you. If he finds someone who answers all of the questions 'correctly' he's screwed. One morning he'll wander in to find everything running slow and the servers wont be backing up, what then? What then?!!?!

[gobbo]

Our MD is rather like that, in the he has no IT knowledge, out side of turning PC on, using basic word/excel and internet/e-mail.

When the company first started, he speced the IT setup, using basically the cheepest nastest components he could find, then wonders why they don't work.

So today he comes to see me, goes like this:
MD: "I want to access my work e-mails and stuff on the server off site"
Me: "Our current setup doesn't allow us to do this"
MD: "Why not? Other companies can"
Me: "Other companies don't have a £20 firewall and router setup"
MD: "Can't I do a *thinking* remote server connection?"
Me: "No we can't"

At this point i was tempted to say "Do you even know WTF a remote connection is you retard!?"

But i held back as he's the MD

[Atomic]

Doctor: My computer powers on but there's nothing on the screen. What do you do?
Rich(The hero in the story): I check all leads and power supplies. If that doesn't work I open the PC and check the graphics card.
Doctor: Wrong. You remove the PC and give me a replacement than repair it.

The w*nker. The complete w*nker. Everything he said went like that:

Doctor ScumFace: I get in one morning and all the pcs are slow, but working, what's the solution?
Rich:I'd reboot both servers, then the workstations
Doctor: Wrong, there has been a powercut in the night and the servers are begining to backup. Cancel that.

WHAT????
(For a start with Clinical systems, when they back up everything else shuts down. They wouldn't be running slow, they wouldn't be running at all)

My Personal Favourite:
Doctor: We have a connection with NHSnet, do you know what this is?
Rich: A secure connection made through the Internet from the here to another computer.
Doctor: Wrong. It's a secure VPN.
Rich: *Groans*

Jesus! those answers were spot on.

I got a job as IT Support Technician (looking after ~800 PCs) and answered the interview questions with very simular answers to that.

The Doctor might have had a grude against you because of your age also. A lot of older people don't think management jobs should be for anyone under 30.

[Bazzlad]

This thread should be renamed:
NAMING AND SHAMING COMPUTING RETARDS.
I think Doctor ****e Face may be the winner!

[Skii]

Typical GP, arrogant and inherently superior to every other being on the planet

[MD]

jesus matie, thats a really sucky employer.....

m@

[TeePee]

Consider this a lucky escape.

[Bazzlad]

Luckily, it's not my employer, I work for a different GPs, I was planning on jumping ship, as I'd love to get into management (Maybe I'll have to wait until I'm a tad older )

[gobbo]

Or maybe just wait untill you get an interview with a GP who's not a tawt

[Bazzlad]

Good plan Gobbo

[petrefax]

bazz - as a few others have already said, i think you've had a lucky escape there mate, sounds like the sort of person you're never gonna please & your working life would be hell if you worked there (why do you reckon the last person left??)

i think skii put it quite well....

Typical GP, arrogant and inherently superior to every other being on the planet

i used to work in the NHS (a few years ago now) in a lab in a large hospital, forunately we had little contact with GPs but the little contact we did have usually involved a reasonable amount of friction - i, and my colleagues at the time were experts in medical microbiology, we knew what we were talking about cos it was our entire job...GPs would routinely send us what can only be described as a big pile of inappropriate poo & expect us to be able to test it for everything (despite the fact that (a) sample types were inapprporiate (b) they were usually so old they were no longer viable and (c) half the time they'd have contaminated them with their lack of asceptic technique)

but somehow, it was always our fault!!

my 2p about GPs
they are used to the adulation of their patients (often pensioners) so can't seem to comprehend whats happening when people don't treat them like lord god almighty

they are by nature of their job a jack of all trades...master of none

/me takes deep breath....aaand relax!

[Bazzlad]

LOL,
Cheers everyone you've cheered me up!
Yeah Doctors can be arrogant. The ones I work with at the moment are fantastic tho, real charcters, sense of humours and I rip the piss out of them everyday and they don't have a HOLIER THAN THOU complex. Well apart from one fat ugly one who'll remain un named!
Cheers!

[GreenPiggy]

Generally all GPs have an inferiority complex due to the fact that all other Doctors think they are scum. Tends to manifest itself in this sort of behaviour.