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Ok, so I am an office worker who uses about 4 different programs every day to do my job. Also I am on a network that uses a server that everyone can get into. I'm just wondering if anyone else who works in an office regularly has to deal with programs going down or the entire server going down or something technology related that does not allow you to do your job.

I have to deal with at least one program going down every week. Sometimes I am able to do half of my job and wait until the other program comes back up, but other times so much is down that I am not able to do anything but sit and twiddle my thumbs. The longest time I have had to just sit and wait was about 5 hours. Just curious if this company is retarded or is this a normal occurrence in offices?

Delete, Rewind.X · Accepted Answer

Sounds just like the office I work in. I work for an Environmental Consultant Agency as an archaeologist and surprisingly, as an archaeologist about 70% of all work is completed on a server, via maps, photographs, spreadsheets, reports etc. I use 8 or 9 programs on the regular and they always crash, uninstall themselves or won't boot etc. 

It's very disjointing, and it kills my productivity.

sabrinacareer · Answer

5 hours seems excessive. I also deal with 4-5 different programs and if one is down it's annoying cause you can't get your work done...but the most of wait time for us was an hour. Maybe your company doesn't have enough people in the IT department or the programs are very outdated

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