Term used to describe a low
skill IT support professional that doesn’t actually know how to fix device issues so just
restarts the machine knowing it resets everything and at least works around the problem. ‘
Restarts’ are typically low motivation,
neurotic individuals, yet over their career amazingly can weasel their way to senior technology leadership positions (typically in academia).
Example:
Student 1: Hey buddy, you struggling with that pc again? why don’t you call support?
Student 2: Yeah, it’s hanging and crashing a lot, but you know they’ll just
send one of their Restarts to look at it. Waste of time!
Student 3: hey, I heard they just promoted ‘the’ original
Restart to Head of Technology now - can you believe it!
Student 1: oh what! come on, how? He couldn’t even fix a printer
paper jam once…he got his balls caught in the output tray and split his scrotum.