Clients Are StupidI once had to train a client on how to use their new website. I said, "point the mouse at that button." They looked at me with a quizzical expression, picked up the mouse and held it to the screen. Can you beat this bit of client stupidity?
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rob, Sun 28 Dec 2003, 22:47)
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Virus checkers are there for a reasonHaving previously supplied a machine to a customer six months previously, complete with a popular antivirus package, I was somewhat surprised to receive a call saying they thought they had a virus, moreso when the behaviour they described was that displayed normally by the infamous MS Blast virus.
So, I decided on a site visit. The PC was UTTERLY riddled with viruses, in all I found around 430 instances of virus infection. Most puzzling of all, the virus checker itself appeared to have vanished without trace.
Not seeing it in Control Panel~add/remove I asked if it had somehow been uninstalled, and to my surprise the customer said yes, he'd uninstalled it. I asked why.
"Because it kept popping up this large RED box in the middle of the screen." He said. The only red box the package produced was the 'You have a virus - what do you want done with it?' dialogue. "I got annoyed when the box kept coming up, so I removed the antivirus package to make it go away."
Some people thrive on stupidity. I doubled my fee, and went home.
(, Mon 29 Dec 2003, 23:58, Reply)
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