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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Watermeloning idiot users...I do a fair bit of system building/upgrading/repair to stave off boredom. One of the thing that really pisses me off is when I get asked for a quote by someone who then decides to buy the cheapest e-machine / time / tiny piece of shit, and *expects me to support the bloody thing*.
One such case was Lee. He got a system from the retailer that rhymes with Vomit. It's a packard bell shitpile. Anyway after a year he decides he wants to obtain a CD-Writer. At the time IDE writers were retailing for about £70.
I shopped around and got one for £65 at a local computer fair. I then went to fit it. For some reason (probably related to the size of the drives) I decided not long after I opened the machine that the original rom needed to fit in the bottom bay and the burner above it.
Unscrewing the original rom, I then started to slide it out of the bay. Then I saw the front of the device. You've guessed it, a burner was supplied on this machine.
Lee was adamant that it was not a burner. Insisted that his mate, who "knows about computers" (a phrase I have come to dread) had told him it was not a burner. Took a copy of his 'my documents' folder to make him accept the fact.
He's since gone on from strength to strength. He's ditched a perfectly good 98se twice, once for ME and once for Win2k. No problem there, but he doesn't get backup discs and he doesn't install antivirus software. His habits of installing pikey dialler software to view pr0n mean that his self-installed OSes last no more than a week or two.
He's asked for a new mouse as his existing one is worn out. You've guessed it, the rollers were crammed with dead skin cells and probably dried spunk. He's asked me how you get a windows 98 install on a single floppy.
What's really aggravating is that Vomit and Packard Bell made money out of this irritating cretinous fuckbadger and I keep getting the fallout.
Still, I have had the old axiom 'never assume anything' reinforced greatly. Never assume your client would know if they had already bought a CD burner.
(, Wed 31 Dec 2003, 16:09, Reply)
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