First Line IT/Helpdesk



To offer the other side of this.

Hi. My mobile phone isn’t working.

Help desk: I’m sorry we can’t help on this number. You need to dial 123 from your business phone

My business phone isn’t working

And repeat ad nauseam


thats cost most people on first line are either thick as mince or so fucked off from all the stupid wankers that they cant be arsed after there 39th call of the day
 
I'd look at the onboarding process to be honest, you've failed to educate that user in the basics and havent provided the correct tool (knowedge) to do his/her job.
I'd look at the first line support grunt, to be honest.

If they haven't worked out by now that their job is customer care, and not just changing toner cartridges, then they are too thick to be worth employing.
 
I work in IT support (not on a helpdesk though). No word of a lie I had a senior lecturer ask me last week how to turn her new computer on. You get some really interesting work through like the 3D printer we are looking at buying, or running 150 iPads for teaching and assessments, but you also get some where it makes you think how do you manage to keep yourself alive.
 

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