Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in
After making a medical clinic's network rather ill, she 'kept working until I somewhat knew what I was doing'
Networks Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in After making a medical clinic's network rather ill, she 'kept working until I somewhat knew what I was doing' Simon Sharwood Simon Sharwood APAC Editor Published mon 25 May 2026 // 09:09 UTC WHO, ME? Welcome once again to "Who, Me?" – The Register's Monday column in which we celebrate the things you get wrong at work, and your skill at emerging unscathed. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "April," who told us that early in her career, she worked for a company that operated several medical clinics. April admitted she did not feel she was a great candidate for the job as she had recently completed her CompTIA A+ certification – one of the most entry-level certs – and had only tangential experience supporting doctors as they struggled to use a single application. REG AD That résumé was enough to score a job imaging new PCs, deploying them, and handling whatever other tasks popped up. REG AD "One day I received a task to convert an unused space into offices, so I loaded an armload of PCs and a dozen VoIP phones into my car and drove the 45 minutes to the clinic," April wrote. "The deployment went smoothly – or so I thought – because at each of the desks one of the people who knew what they were doing had already put two network drops, one for the phone and one for the PC." April was therefore able to methodically get through the job, then slow down to tackle the slightly tricky elements. "Some of the desks needed two computers," she wrote. "On those, I was expected to use the secondary Ethernet port on the phones to get internet to those PCs." April hooked everything up with time to spare and decided to put her feet up for the 15 minutes that remained until 5pm – meaning she would glide into an unusually early end to her working day. "My paid respite was interrupted quickly by a nurse who found me and let me know none of the computers in the entire clinic could acces
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