'It's fun to actually block someone once in a while': IT worker gets back at coworkers who cut the lunch line and force him to eat at his desk

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Sep 6, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

You should treat every single person with respect, especially all of your coworkers. The hierarchy of the company comes second to just being a decent human being. However, some people are filled with entitlement and forget that when it comes down to it, we're all just flesh and bones. So when one of these entitled colleagues disrespect a branch of the company that they think they're better than, you better believe they're gonna get a taste of their own medicine. 

This happened recently with an employee in IT. Now, if you've ever worked in a company that has IT, then you know just how important they are. If there is a tech problem that no one knows how to fix, IT can make or break that work flow. So if you disrespect IT, well… That's pretty dumb. Apparently, the IT team in this company only got an hour long break, so it was crucial that they got in and out as quick as possible in the lunch line. Which was hard sometimes, because it could get very long. 

Well this IT employee was waiting in a very long lunch line, he watched as two employees cut the line, even though they had a much longer lunch break. This forced him and some of his other IT teammates to quickly grab their lunches and eat at their desks. (Which technically wasn't even allowed, but it was either that or be hungry.)

If you mess with the bee, you're gonna feel the sting. And in this case, the bee was IT and the sting was IT now ignoring this line-jumpers' "urgent" IT requests. Sorry, if you're going to be rude to IT, then why would they show you anything else? Hopefully, a lesson was learned here. 

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    Font - Posted by u/Martini Mini 1 day ago Queue jumpers kicked back in a different queue
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    Font - I work in IT as a service desk engineer and we have a limited time window where we can get our food and eat during lunch (12:00 - 13:00). It's always pretty busy in the cafeteria so we plan it accordingly. Other co-workers don't have this time constraint, this is important to the story.
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    Font - Everyone starts their lunch around 12:00 so that's a time to avoid. We wait until 12:30 in the hopes that we have a smaller queue to order. On this day this was not the case. It was a long queue and it took a while for the kitchen staff to get al orders out. I was waiting
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    Font - in line (as you should) and a few people walked in and saw someone near the front of the line that they wanted to talk to. Fine by me, as long as you take your place in queue once you are done. But they did not. They kept talking to each other and queued along. They ordered, got their food and left.
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    Font - When it was my turn I only had 10mins left to wait for my meal and get back to my desk. I was eventually forced to eat at my desk (even though it's not allowed) and serve co- workers during my lunch.
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    Font - It's the end of the summer holiday so it's pretty busy. A while later we received a ticket from one of the queue jumpers. Of course they changed their prio to URGENT although it was far from urgent from our point
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    Font - of view. We decided to put them on hold until the end of the day (at least) and continued to work on other tickets (less urgent and more urgent). It's maybe a very small victory but since people want us to call on their every whim, it's fun to actually block someone once in a while.
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    Font - SheiB123 22 hr. ago IT is the most important division in the company. It is so sad that organizations don't understand and prioritize IT as such.
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    Font - Alienne8r 16 hr. ago ● Seriously if IT goes down our entire organization grinds to a halt. They are the gatekeepers, they rule us all.
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    Font - bigbigdummie. 21 hr. ago "Sticks and stones may break my bones but I can read your email."
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    Font - ddollopp 20 hr. ago This. I make it a point to always be on the good side of and nice to IT. If they have a favor to ask, I drop everything immediately (as long as I'm not on a call) and assist with such favor.
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    Font - You never know when you'll have an urgent IT matter and it helps to have that goodwill built up to pull in a favor.
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    Font - slackera ftw. 18 hr. ago I have been at a couple jobs where pissing off IT would be oddly beneficial. At one, operators figured out how to crash the server. When the server went down,
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    Font - which took about an hour to reset, they got to take an extended break since they couldn't work at all. The other job was pretty similar, if there was an IT problem, you filled out the ticket and didn't work on that project.
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    Font - If IT is mad at you and bumps you to the bottom, you get paid for doing nothing. That being said, don't mess with the IT department.
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    Font - Bad LuckIsMyLuck 17 hr. ago I never understand when people do. I will always be put at the bottom of my priorities. Put High priority on something that isn't, your a can wait. I can justify almost every ticket being a priority over yours. Dumb a S.
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    Font - MINIONS PSUAth 14 hr. ago 3 jobs I don't mess with. ● 1. IT 2. Janitorial 3. Reception/Secretary *honorable mention is shipping/receiving.
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    Font - These people make the company run. Keep them happy and they might make your life a bit easier. Don't and they for sure will make your life miserable.
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    Font - Wuss999 1 day ago I was in IT in a large factory environment. Middle management were the worst to deal with. They would phone with a trivial issue and expect us to jump through hoops to fix it. I just used to say I'm working on factory manager pc you'll have to wait. Worked every time.
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    Font - No_Initiative_8231 · 21 hr. ago Just reject their ticket for incorrect information provided - they will have to log it all over again... You won't see their annoyance, but you know it will most certainly annoy them.
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    Font - When asked, just advise their asset details didn't appear in CMDB or they already had permissions/access etc etc. Easy to apologise later for the oversight. Feel free to remind anyone you were very busy trying to catch up and didn't really get a lunch break today which must have resulted in the oversight
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