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- System Administration Support Fees
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- Support Fees:
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- Calling me with a question - $10
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- Calling me with a stupid question - $20
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- Calling me with a stupid question you
- can't quite articulate - $30
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- Implying I'm incompetent because I can't interpret your inarticulate problem
-
- description - $1000 + punitive damages
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- Questions where answer is in TFM which is on your desk - $100.00
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- Calling me back with the same problem
- *after* I fix it once - $100
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- Insisting that you're not breaking the software, the problem is on my end
- somehow - $200
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- Asking me to walk over to your building
- to fix the problem - $5/step
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- Asking me to drive to another town to fix your problem - $50/mile + gas
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- If you interrupt me while I was trying to actually
- fix somebody else's problem - $45/hr
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- If you try to hang around and get me to fix it now - $50/hr
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- If you expect me to tell you how I fixed it - $60/hr
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- If you've come to ask me why something isn't
- working that I'm currently working on - $70/hr
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- If you're asking me to fix something I fixed
- for you yesterday - $75/hr
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- If you're asking me to fix something I told you
- I fixed yesterday, but never did fix - $85/hr
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- If you're asking me to fix a quick patch that
- I made that didn't work - $95/hr
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- If you're bugging me while there's another admin
- in the room who could have done it for you - $150/hr
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- Making me trek to your office to fix your problem then leaving immediately
- after hanging up the phone - $1500.00
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- Calling up with a problem which "everybody" in the office is having and which
- is "stopping all
- work", not being there when I rush over to look at it and nobody else in the
- office knows
- anything about it. - $1700.00
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- Explaining a problem for 1/2 hour over the phone BEFORE mentioning it's your
- personal machine at home - $500.00
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- Self-diagnosing your problem and telling me what to do - $150.00
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- Having me bail you out when you perform your own
- repairs I told you not to do - $300.00
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- Figuring out you mean floppy drive when you
- say hard drive - $50.00
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- Fixing your "broken" mouse with a mousepad - $25.00
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- Fixing your "broken" optical mouse by rotating the mousepad 90 degrees
- - $35.00
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- Fixing a "broken" mouse by cleaning the rollers - $50.00
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- Fixing your "broken" printer with a toner cartridge - $35.00
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- Fixing your "broken" ANYTHING with the power button - $250.00
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- Fixing the "crashed" system by turning the
- external disk back on - $200.00
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- Fixing the "hung" system by plugging the ethernet transceiver back in
- - $375.00
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- Visiting your old university and fixing the broken PC by plugging the monitor
- lead back in - $50
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- Explaining that you can't log in to some server because you don't have an
- account there - $10
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- Forgetting your password after it was tattooed
- on your index finger - $25
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- Installing programs without informing me or getting
- permission first - $100 per program
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- Technical support for the above programs - $150 per hour
- (regardless of whether I know the program or not)
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- Spilling coke on keyboard - $25 plus cost of
-
- keyboard
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- Spilling coke on monitor - $50 plus cost of
-
- monitor
- Spilling coke on CPU
- (plus cost of motherboard swap plus hourly rate of $150 per hour spent
- reinstalling
- the system) - $200
-
- Leaving files on desktop - $5 per file - $10
- per day the file is left unclaimed
-
- Cleaning the mouse with spit and sleeve - $50 plus cost of
-
- sleeve
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- Bringing in your own copy of the original Norton Utilities v1.0 to fix a
- brand new machine - $200
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- Chewing on the end of the graphic tablet stylus - $25
-
- Putting feet up next to workstation after ten mile jog through NYC streets
- - $50
-
- Spending 30 minutes trying to figureout what your problem is, and another 5
- explaining how to verify and fix it, only to hear you say...
- "So that's what the little box that popped up
- on my screen was telling me to do!" - $40
-
- Listening to your network troubles, suggesting that you check to see if you
- are plugged into the network
- jack, hearing yes, trying five other things, asking you to identify your plug
- type, listening to you drag furniture, and hearing a sheepish, "Oops.
- Nevermind." (including discount for polite
- apology) - $35
-
- Dealing with tech support requests for obviously pirated software
- - $25
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- Dealing with "How can I get another copy of [obviously pirated software]?
- Mine just died." requests - $45
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- Having to use the "We're really not the best people to talk to about that;
- why don't you try calling
- the number on the box in which you bought it?"
- line - $55
-
- Actually needing to explain copyright law to you after you failed to get the
- hint in the previous
- response (includes instructions for getting
- freeware replacements from the public file server) - $95
-
- Having to point out anything that's on the wall in a typeface larger than 18
- points - $15
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- If I wrote the sign - $45
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- If it's in a 144 point font and taped to the side of the monitor facing the
- door - $75
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