Not me, but etc
A small company looking to expand could only get the bank loan they needd if they moved from the director's back-room at home to a proper office and computerised everything. Through a friend of a friend sort of thing, my mate Adam was pointed their way in order to do this seemingly simple task. Procure some new PCs and a couple of printers, network them up, install software and then show the office team of three how to take advantage of their new technology. There was only a tiny office team because the majority of the payroll consisted of contracted welders.

The director's wife Karen was, to put it mildly, utterly devoid of intelligence. She seemed to have no intuition or problem solving skills at at all. Adam had to take each task she wanted to do and create a step-by-step list. We've actually declared the 'Karen' to be the SI unit of the thickness of short planks.

The most startling, and almost too cliché to be true, was when the spreadsheet she worked on was getting too big for the floppy disk, so Adam produced a 64mb USB flash drive that he had kicking about in a drawer somewhere and said she could use that and use it just like a floppy disk.

You can clearly see where this is going. "Adam, how does this go, it doesn't seem to go in either way." Yup, trying to insert it into the floppy drive. I didn't think such things happened and always thought it was apocryphal and the sort of thing that appeared in emails that circulated in the late 90s. I can say it was true as I was there. (I'd been drafted in to speak to the boss about the website).
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 9:28, 5 replies)

Clicked
just for the Karen being the SI unit of the thickness of short planks.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 9:38, closed)

^This
Only I rather think the thickness of a short plank should be the demikaren.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 18:11, closed)

Some people ust shouldn't be allowed near computers.
Our house has had a Mac sitting in the corner of the kitchen for at least 5 years, has been twice upgraded to a newer machine, and at least 2 or 3 versions of OSX.

It's just there for domestic crap like websurfing.

My wife still hasn't got her head around the fact that ctrl+alt+del won't help when something goes tits up.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 9:41, closed)

i knew a Karen
and she had a scale of mentalness

www.b3ta.com/questions/relationships/post926132


maybe its a Karen thing?
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 10:31, closed)

I was looking forward
to the blog you mentioned only to hear it's gone!
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 10:44, closed)