Dear Employees,

If you work with a company computer then this is to you. Please do not leave hundreds of baby or vacation pictures on your computer. Do not keep music on it. Don’t bitch about what programs we aren’t installing, if we don’t have license  information you’re NOT GETTING IT until a license is issued by the appropriate higher up.  Above all PLEASE do not leave movie files of questionable legality on your computer because when I find them I have to decide whether to report you.

All of these things slow us down when we move your data, they also eat up space about ten times faster than your work documents.

You should also make sure your backup drive is actually backing up to an external location instead of ON YOUR HARD DRIVE. If it’s on your hard drive and something happens to your computer it’s no safer than the rest of your data. ( we’ve seen this, oh god, we’ve seen it)

If we ask for your password please give it to us, or be avaliable to login each time we need you. We know you should never give out your password. We know what company policy is. This is one of the only times anyone should ask for your password. We leave a little printout telling you to change it after we leave and everything. Keeping your password from us isn’t safe when you consider that we are sitting at your computer with full access for hours on end anyway. If we wanted something we could take it. We don’t want your company secrets. We work for the same company. We want to change your computer and get it back to you as soon as possible so you will never call us again.

If your company does use an outside tech team to change your computer and they ask for your password I can understand the pause. Trust me I do.  As for computer safety, you shouldquestion when your password is asked for. But we say in our preliminary email that the installer will need the password. You can temporarily change it even!  The team I work on is hired once a year and is made up of college age children of employees who have to apply and be interviewed, background checked, drug tested, etc. If we did anything wrong they have all of our information and all of our parents.  We want nothing more than to never hear from you again after we install your computer.

End rant.

Thank you for your time,
Your underpaid computer installer