Funny stories

[Bizman]

OK, after reading and answering all kinds of questions on this board, I thought about gathering a bunch of computer related things that could happen to everyone, noob or vet. I hope this could also have an educational function, showing examples of how not to do things...

As a start here's a story of a young dude taking his first steps in Internet shopping:

Now this guy had been gaming for a while and finally went online. He had been using a Siberia headset for quite a long time when suddenly his mic got muted. The cable of the retractable mic had broken. So he ordered a similar one from an online shop and got the replacement in due time. So far so good. The problems started when he tried to plug it into his PC. I got an SMS from him, how to plug the thing in. I answered, that the green plug goes into the green jack and the pink one into the pink jack, and that his soundcard program should inform him about the function of each input. The answer was, that there was only one plug. Finally he gave up and booked a housecall from me.

I saw at once, that there really was only one plug, but it was sliced into more than three parts. The cord also was quite short for PC use. So i told him, that this kind of plugs are used in iPhones and such, and that there should at least be an adapter in the package. He said there wasn't, but after some persuation he finally looked for and found the box. While he looked inside the it, I noticed a round white sticker saying "For iPad/iPod/iPhone". The vendor's site clearly says "Apple version"...

[MaSonZ]

 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

A friend of mine told a true story about a remote support.

An office worker had a problem where he had two windows on the screen as my friend understood from his explanation. The other window was a confirmation dialog requiring him to press 'ok' to continue. The other window was unrelated but he had clicked it so that it became on top of the confirmation window.

So my friend tried to explain to him that "You have a window open on top of the other window on your desktop", he needed to close that window on top in order to access the dialog so he could continue with the other program. The worker simply refused to understand what he was supposed to do and he couldn't get remote desktop sharing either. He just kept saying the window has nothing to do with the software problem.

Finally the phone call went into a shouting argument and the man shouted 'fine I'll close the window' and hung up. At this point my friend gave up and called the mans secretary to confirm he actually closed the window that he was supposed to.

The secretary said that after some argument on the phone, the man stood up from his chair and closed the office window next to him.  

[Getback]

 

This is not computer related but it sure fits your story. I was at work one day when our youngest employee picked up a taped envelope. Holding it up she said what's this. The team leader said, as if talking to a child. Well let's open it like this and read it what is says okayyyyyyyy. Here we can do this together. 

[skorpion]

The secretary said that after some argument on the phone, the man stood up from his chair and closed the office window next to him. 

[Bizman]

People are hard to satisfy...

I run a small business repairing computers mainly for private people. When I started this job seven years ago, the people at the employment office asked if I had a netsite. No, most often my help is needed when either the Internet or the whole computer isn't working. That didn't affect my getting the start payment for new entrepreneurs, but their opinion was, that a firm in the computer business should have pages in the net.

A woman called me, telling that she was moving to my town and wanted me to do a website for her firm. When I told her that I don't do them, she got very angry and accused me for incompetency. She thought every computer related selfemployed person should be a universal genius, capable of both soldering new caps into a motherboard and creating an artistically and functionally qualified layout for a site, not to mention being able to help her use any program she might have installed...

Once I got an SMS, where someone anonymous asked me, what kind of a computer man I was, since I didn't have webpages. I answered that I'm that kind of of a man who can solve problems with a non-working Internet connection. No comments after that...

One woman sent me e-mail, accusing me for not filling my receipts adequate for tax deduction. She was acting on behalf of a client of mine, whom she didn't name. Well, I visited the local tax office where they told me everything was correct in my bills. No comments after I replied her with this information...

Luckily everything in this job isn't that dark: Before Christmas I got an SMS, wishing me a "Peaceful Christmas from <Name>, a content customer". 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

People are hard to satisfy...

I run a small business repairing computers mainly for private people. When I started this job seven years ago, the people at the employment office asked if I had a netsite. No, most often my help is needed when either the Internet or the whole computer isn't working. That didn't affect my getting the start payment for new entrepreneurs, but their opinion was, that a firm in the computer business should have pages in the net.

A woman called me, telling that she was moving to my town and wanted me to do a website for her firm. When I told her that I don't do them, she got very angry and accused me for incompetency. She thought every computer related selfemployed person should be a universal genius, capable of both soldering new caps into a motherboard and creating an artistically and functionally qualified layout for a site, not to mention being able to help her use any program she might have installed...

Once I got an SMS, where someone anonymous asked me, what kind of a computer man I was, since I didn't have webpages. I answered that I'm that kind of of a man who can solve problems with a non-working Internet connection. No comments after that...

One woman sent me e-mail, accusing me for not filling my receipts adequate for tax deduction. She was acting on behalf of a client of mine, whom she didn't name. Well, I visited the local tax office where they told me everything was correct in my bills. No comments after I replied her with this information...

Luckily everything in this job isn't that dark: Before Christmas I got an SMS, wishing me a "Peaceful Christmas from <Name>, a content customer". 

What kind of a computer guy are you that you don't do macs? 

[Bizman]

What kind of a computer guy are you that you don't do macs? 

A specialist. 

Besides, AFAIK Apple has a decent helpdesk for free, I can't compete that pricing.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

A specialist.  

Besides, AFAIK Apple has a decent helpdesk for free, I can't compete that pricing.

Don't worry I didn't do macs either untill I was literally forced to through work. At first it was annoying to see most things worked different. But then I started to like the simplicity. Oh and I love the built in shell. Makes it so easy to connect to the linux servers.