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What is your profession's version of "Have you tried turning it off and on?"

dew042

dew042

Honky Tonk Hero
In homage to the IT Crowd (Which is highly recommended), this phrase is uttered thousands of times a day to fix pesky computer issues. What's your funniest or most common thing you say on the job?

.dew.
 
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I work in mobile sales and customer service. I don't have a variation of that phrase, I use it daily.

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I'm a perfusionist and I actually have used "have you tried turning it off and on." Even life saving medical equipment (more now than ever) are software driven and prone to occasional glitches so it never hurts to try rebooting.

Love the IT Crowd BTW. If you have Netflix, do watch the show.
 
In pro AV there are control systems that run all the AV gear from touch panels or other interfaces. We have programmed some systems to re-boot every night just to keep our service department from having to do it. Most control system snafu's are cured by a re-boot.
 
I work in a warehouse and I think the phrase I say to my direct boss is "Is this the new standard rule or the rule when (insert name here of person who likes to make rules for the warehouse team but doesn't actually stick around to see if the rules help) is around"
 
"What do you mean you didn't bring restraints?" addressed to young officers. No cuffs. One if my favorite expressions is "I don"t want to hear Josie dead, I want to Jessie dead." Used when I am accounting for keys and equipment. I am a Correctional Officer Sergeant.
 
I worked on a flight simulator for a while. It was vintage 70's stuff. Most problems were software issues, but sometimes one of the hundreds of circuit cards would need reset. The operators laughed at us techs. There cliche for us was "reboot, reseat, relax." That was typically what it took to fix a glitch. I now work in communications, which includes IT and radios. The first thing I ask a user when he or she comes to me with an issue is "did you reboot?" or "did you you power it down and back up again?"
Mike
 
"You saw the sign" in reference to the company sign out front when someone wonders "why did we do it that way."
 
"change the limit switch". The company I work for sterilizes things, and the particular facility I work at uses a pretty hot gamma radiation source to do it. The conveyor system has a lot of stuff inside the radiation field, and it cooks the parts. Most of the time when it acts stupid, its because a switch has gone TU. I'm in the maintenance department, so I occasionally get phone calls if things act up.

The rest of the warehouse its probably "what does the work order say?".
 
Is the gas on ? is a phrase I mutter often to people with a motorcycle that won't start. (most motorcycles have on/off fuel valves and it's common to forget to turn it on)

As soon as I read the title of this thread I thought of the Roy on the IT Crowd.
Great show. It's the best of nerd tv... :thmbsp:
 
A long time ago when the on screen message "Syntax Error" was common, the standard reply was, "better change the syntax chips" ;)
 
"Do you have any liquids in the bag?"
"No."
Bag goes through X-ray.
"Sir/Ma'am, there is a bottle of water in the bag."
"I thought you said liquids."
"Yes sir/ma'am. Water is a liquid."
Pause. "Are you sure?"
 
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