DESKSIDE SUPPORT
Our current Finance minister
Who is Chrystia Freeland?
Number of children
What is two? (a boy and a girl)
Our IT asset experts
Who are Manish, Yani, Gabriel and Rafael?
….and they all miss Eli!
It is always this person's fault
Who is Dave?
First question you should ask when troubleshooting
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
Our fantastic deskside support team members
Who are Michel, Trevor, Brigitte, Priyanka, Ned and Jean-David?
Favourite reporting tool
What is XTraction?
Number of assigned FIN-B devices
What is 1009?
People who are our first line of defense....or first point of contact!
Who are Stephane, Carlos, Dave, Seb, Jeff, Bob and Benoit?
This smartphone company is older than Apple
What is Samsung?
By 38 years and 1 month. Samsung was founded as a grocery store on March 1, 1938, by Lee Byung-Chull.
Michel's favourite videoconferencing tool
What is WebEx?
Equivalent to 1024 terabytes (TB) of data
What is 1 petabyte (PB)?
To give an example of how big this is, a 1 PB hard drive could hold 13.3 years of HD-TV video
Number of monitors deployed for home office use since the start of the pandemic
What is 353?
Average number of arrivals per month over the past year
What is 32?
The year the internet became faster than carrier pigeons
What is 2010?
When comparing upload speeds, a test was done to fly a carrier pigeon with a USB stick 50 miles to an internet provider, while racing against an internet upload. The pigeon made it in just over an hour, while the upload took over two hours.
Number of smartphone models currently in use at Finance?
What is 12?
iPhone 7, 8, 8+, X, XR, XS, XS Max
Samsung Galaxy S8, 8+, 9, 10, 10E
Month and year that Manish joined Finance
What is March 2018?
First product ever scanned with a barcode
What is chewing gum?
Norman Joseph Woodland invented the barcode, and received a patent in October 1952. It wasn’t until 22 years later, when he was employed by IBM that the barcode was developed to be used for product labeling. Known as the Universal Product Code (UPC), a system that is still used today.
Percentage of people who plug their USB keys in correctly
What is 14%?
So that means that 86% of people try to plug in their USB devices upside down!
What came first …. email or the World Wide Web
What is email?
In 1984, with a computer and rotary telephone to connect to a service called Micronet. No URLs, just numbered webpages. For emails, the webpage number was 7776.
Number of active smartphones at Finance
What is 691?
Samsung - 217
iPhone - 474
Favourite model of car
What is a McLaren P1 GTR?
Material used to make the first computer mouse
What is wood?
Back in 1964, Doug Engelbart invented the first ever computer mouse out of wood. It was rectangular and featured a little button on the top right. He called it a mouse because the cord coming out of the back reminded him of the tiny rodents.
VCC is an acronym for ....
What is Virtual Call Centre?
Percentage of the world's currency that is digital
What is 92%?
Most of the money you earn, transact with, use to buy goods/services and so on exists only on computers and hard drives. Only an estimated 8 per cent of currency globally is physical money.