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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 error messages and one of the IT people comes around, it immediately starts acting right... like nothing was wrong in the first place.
My office calls it Computer Mana. Some people have a lot of computer mana, some people are bone dry. But like pokemon gym badges, computers will sometimes act up and refuse to follow orders if you don’t have enough computer mana.