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A pie chart labelled “How I fix stuff working in IT”
The biggest segment is "Restart whatever isn’t working2 The second biggest segment is “Quick google search” The last segment is “IT placebo effect: My mere presence has fixed the issue”
At my office, we call it “proximity dot exe.” Every device we use has a proximity protocol it runs in the background. When something starts giving us your messages and one of the IT people comes around it immediately starts acting right… like nothing was wrong in the first place.