» Buses

passengers from HELLLLL
Here in Bristol, UK, First Bus has a monopoly on bus travel. I've
been using their buses on a daily basis for more that three years and
I've encountered a few...interesting passengers in my time. I've got no problems with the buses...much...just the people on them.

- The guy who was on his phone for a good 45 minutes talking about
some godforsaken pointless thing in a high-pitched loud voice. When
he got of the bus there was several sighs of relief, let me tell you
that.

- The people that have (as I call it) SAD: Social Anti-Awareness
Disoder. This is, they talk to you...for ever...about stuff you dont
care about, want to know about, or hold the slightest bit of intrest
into knowing. I don't care about your kid's operaion or your cat's
problem. Just...please...fuck off.

- The HOLY FREAKING HELL most umpleasant women I have ever had to
deal with. The first time I "met" her she had just go onto the (very
full) bus and was stood next to the door. As an old lady walked past
her she said "wheres your manners" under her breath, to which I
replied "wheres yours?". I recieved a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse,
saying how I should respect older people (like her? pah!) claimed she was pregnant and demanded my seat. A cold stare works a treat. As she
got off the bus a couple of people cheered and as people walked past
me to get off they said "good for you" and such...which was nice.

- Next time she stood in front of the doors as they opened and got
smushed. Then she started having a go at the driver "mumble shoud be
be fucking working here, taking our fucking jobs blah blah". a couple
of people piped up, "dont like it, fuck off and walk" and "he's only
doing his job". She looked at me again and after a friendly (ha)
disagreement I said "pull a stunt like that again and I, along with
several others, WILL remove you from the bus". She said "you wouldn't
dare touch me" to which I replied "you're right...I dont' know where
you've been". When she got off I gave her a little wave. She gave me DEATH STARE 101. The bus driver said thanks.

Sorry, suppose you had to be there.

length? more than three years of hell.
(Thu 25th Jun 2009, 13:55, More)

» IT Support

eeeeksellent...
I work in IT in a school. It's my last day tomorrow. I/we have a few gems.

One is a french teacher with a incredible lack of skill when it comes to computers. The time when she complained her projector isn't working, the other technician went over, looked at the remote, looked at the projector, looked back at the remote and asker her why the hell she was using a HP remote with an EPSON projector. Her reply? "I brought it with me from my room, cause all projectors are the same". Well, news to me.

Also, before the summer holiday, we replaced her computer with a snazzy all-in-one thing where the screen is connected to the base unit. It's called and RM One, if you know what they are. The keyboard, mice, network cables and screen cables are CLAMPED DOWN and screwed into the back (this is relevant, bear with me) so it's pretty difficult for them to come out. We were called across because, over the summer, someone had "stolen her keyboard". Now, as mentioned above, it's pretty difficult to take this thing apart to get the keyboard out, so we knew somthing was going on. Went across to the room, looked at the computer desk and PULLED THE SHELF OUT with the keyboard on.

others have included
"Screen's not working" - Switch it on
"projector isn't working" - ditto
"sound isn't working" - unmute it, maybe?

finally, "can you fix the internet?" this was by a student. We immediately thought the internet had gone down. But, no, this was her home internet, in a house 10 miles away. Not knowing what OS she had, what her ISP was, even if she was on broadband or dial-up, we couldn't really do much.

length? One year apprenticeship.

EDIT: and please please please no recyled joke from a QOTW in 2004 or the ones that have been on chain mail that we've all read. Ta.
(Thu 24th Sep 2009, 13:22, More)

» Banks

well how about this...
one guy was charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars) when buying some Cigarettes. (linkage)

Whoops, much?
(Thu 16th Jul 2009, 13:41, More)

» The Boss

I've had a mixed bag.
First job was in Woolworths over Christmas a few years back. I was a till monkey and only ever saw him twice, once on my way past his office for an interview and once on my last day when he told me off for stiing in the unused public wheelchair as I'd been stood by the door for all of 7 hours saying "do you want a basket" over and over again.

Next was Pizza Hut, as it was a new branch we all got on pretty well. That was till the main manager was involved in an armed robbery and left soon after.

Costa...just meh.

Wilkinsons...also meh. went from up tight to relaxed, back to up tight quicker than anything.
(Thu 18th Jun 2009, 13:27, More)

» IT Support

me again
as a school we do have large amounts of storage, but there are designated places for stuff. one of the new teachers copied her entire iTunes folder to her documents folder...all 12GB of it. Shortly after the server screamed at us as it had barely 500mb free (the user disk is about 200GB) We moved it onto the storage server...that's a good 1.7tb.

another teacher wanted her muisc copied across, so we started it. While copying, I had a poke around her laptop and found a "limewire" folder...uh-oh...and seconds after on the sever screen behind me "bink...bink...bink...biiiiiiiiiiiiiink" virus...trojan...spyware, whatever. Her music didn't go on the server...and we ended up wiping her laptop.
(Thu 24th Sep 2009, 13:44, More)