Which is why Wendell is my here! No user on his server.

When I was at my last office where I seconded as the "admin" I walked into the back room where the server was, and my partner was sitting at his desk while the medical student was entering patients she had seen into an Excel spreadsheet on the server. Well, not only was she using the server, aarrgghh, we didn't even have Microsoft Excel on the server before that moment, which means she actually downloaded the software. I found out later it was a trial version and my partner had logged her in.

So, I did three things:

1. I asked her nicely to use a computer in one of the rooms, hell, use my computer in my office -- it had the full office suite.
2. I uninstalled the trial version of Excel.
3. I changed the password to the server. No, I didn't give it back to my partner. (that may be partly why I am solo now, lol)

Here's one I think everyone has kind of laughed about:

There is one of us in every office that is the default system administrator (for the most part). How many times have you run into a problem and read something like, "If you can't fix this, see your system administrator?"


Bert
Pediatrics
Brewer, Maine