When I did a GNVQ in IT, I started out knowing knack all about
computers, but after a week at school and playing around on my mum's pc, I got the hang of it.
After six months, I applied for a job at a certain electrical goods retailer (rhymes with vomit) and they took me on just as a regular admin. The tech salesman their knew I was at college and would often throw a customer support call my way to see if I could help.
One lady had been in and bought a brand spanking new P1 33MHZ machine (this WAS in 1995/6) and it was in the days when you had to load everything yourself.
We told her to stick the Win 95 CD in the CD ROM drive and install it following the instructions on screen.
She called back 3 times that day to say it wouldn't install and after a while my coworker got pissed off with her so threw the next call my way.
Turns out that half way through she got sick of waiting for it to install so took the CD out each time when she went to make a cup of tea!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 29 Dec 2003, 17:56, Reply)