Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
(
chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
« Go Back
hilarious IT japeI work in tech support and the most hilarious things happen to us everyday. Just yesterday someone in the sales department called up:
Sales: Oi, dickweed. My machine's crashed.
Me: That's Mr Dickweed to you! (My witty reposte!)
Sales: Right. Are you going to fix it?
Me: Well, I'm a little busy right now rebooting the Magimix System to be compatible with ...
Sales: Spare me that shite. Fix my machine.
Me: OK, can you reinstall the motherboard transcyber gigabyte activator by jumpstarting the sound card ...?
Sales: You've got ten seconds before I come up there and kick your speccy face in, dickweed.
Me: I'm on my way. (That told him!)
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:16, Reply)
« Go Back