Some people should never have computers!

MaidMirawyn

MaidMirawyn

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Oh goodness. I have a new candidate for "Incompetent Computer User of the Year."

I explained to a client today that we no longer accept floppy disks and told him to email me the files off his disk. (Our last four Dells have not had floppy drives, and our G5s don't, either.) So he leaves, and goes back to his home office.

Two hours later, I receive an email from him...with an html file attached. NOT the JPEG I expected. I check it, and it's the WEB PAGE FOR HIS EMAIL CLIENT. So I sent him back a message asking him to try again because he did NOT send the file off his disk.

An hour later, another file. THIS one is an OCX file...so I call him. Here are the problems:

1. He doesn't know how to look at the files on his floppy disk.
2. He doesn't know how to launch Internet Explorer if he has another window open.
3. He doesn't have the stupid floppy IN THE DISK DRIVE in the first place. He is, in fact, surprised when I ask him to PUT IT IN THE DRIVE.
4. He was taking a blind guess when it came time to attach the file in the first place, and had no idea how to actually choose which file to send.

I don't even work in tech support. Quick, I need to do something geeky to console myself!

*heads off to edit Wikipedia*
 
When they don't know what scroll bars are and lose things becuase of them
or think the PC is off because they pressed the button on the monitor.......or they email you to say that the email system is down......call me
 
wow...

"so wait in order for me to send you the floppy disk stuff, i have to have the floppy disk in? 0_o"

0_0
 
I'll do you one better.

This girl walks into student computer services the other day.
Her:"hi guys I spilled juice on my laptop and now it wont turn on."
Me:"did you shut off the computer immediately after you spilled the juice?"
Her:"No. I thought the heat from the computer would evaporate it."

Me:"..."


Also my grandfather called me the day he got his first computer asking where the "any key" was. No joke.
 
AHAHAHAH thats like my grandma... she just got an ancient notebook, and her internet was down... the problem was that her Wep key was wrong... so i disabled the security, and i had to leave cause my mom was eager to get home. So a minute or two later mom gets a call from my grandma.... "I unpluged the computer from the wall and now the internet works" lol
 
i have screen shots for my desktop right? so my mom gets on the compy and tries to log me off. well this is before i knew ctrl+shift+H so the X button to close out GW was still in the top right hand corner. my mom is clicking away at that sucker and yells to me "JOEY TURN OFF YOUR GAME!" it didnt matter that i had rows of icons on the screen. and so i say "mom, im not playing a game, give me the mouse." so i press the window button and click log off. ROFLLOL! i was laughing so hard.
Joey
 
At the place i used to work.....

I got a laptop in that had had beer pretty much dumped into it. (seriously you have gotten drunk off the smell) Luckily the keyboard and the system board soaking out all of it :D . But they obviously had to be replaced along with a few other components........


I got the thing fixed...it was working pretty well too. The guy tried to sue the shop I worked for say that 'we had made the problem worse.....'
 
"Tech support, how can I help you?"

"Yeah, umm... Im getting this error for my sound card driver. How do I get rid of it?"

"Okay, sir please point your mouse on my computer and.....no sir don't put your mouse on the screen......"

Yeah, its just one of thoughs days (:
 
does anyone here use.....or know anyone that owns a WinBook?

Please say no Please say no.........
I can't believe no one has yet figured that I had hidden messages in several of my posts...
 
I... have never even heard of a WinBook... Is that supposed to be Microsoft's counter to the MacBook but with Vista or something? Sounds lame, and I'm a PC-owner.
I've noticed.
-Chadley
 
no, it's some company trying to cash in on the name........


They're junk......waste of money....waste of PLASTIC
but people buy them.... SPAM
and throw them out..... SPAM
and others buy them..... SPAM
and throw them out..... I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!!

I really really should be working........
 
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