Dumbest work order?

**IronTech** · August 1st, 2001, 06:27 AM

What's everyone's dumbest workorder ever? You know, the blatent abuse of power like having you fix someones AOL IM on their work computer or paid you for something stupid like removing files?

We have a woman here, calls up at least once a week, because her Scottie Dog Screensaver doesn't work. And then there was the guy when I was in retail, who crashed his HDD and paid us all bonuses if we could save his pron. I pocketed $100 that day. hehe

**Milenko** · August 1st, 2001, 06:42 AM

I have a guy who comes to me regularly to ask if I can take a look at his machine on his desk cause he can't hook up to radio stations on the net through the proxy. This is blatently against our network policy and streaming audio is in fact listed specifically in the handbook. I keep telling him this and refuse to look at it, but about one a month he shows up to ask if I can take a look at his "internet radio."

Drives me batty.

**Sowulo** · August 1st, 2001, 09:49 AM

Havening remembries of George. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

**grosas9** · August 1st, 2001, 09:56 AM

I had a $200 house call to install a printer driver on a mac.

Think about it...thats $800 an hour, i wish i had more of those

**grosas9** · August 1st, 2001, 09:57 AM

I had a $200 house call to install a printer driver on a mac.

Think about it...thats $800 an hour, i wish i had more of those

**Daemon** · August 1st, 2001, 10:00 AM

Only thing I had was a guy sent in a Linux 2U rack to me becasue he claimed that the servers Raid HDD was going out, and he needed all the files saved it was very very important.

Well I turned it on and found that he has 2 HDD's so I just mounted the second hard drive (since the first booted) and had it mount the second drive automatically on boot. Will I looked ont he disk to see if it works and it turns out that its a web server 2U rack, what kinda you ask a porn server <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

So what do you think we did, stole his 30 gb worth of porn lol.

**CinderElmo** · August 1st, 2001, 10:46 AM

Lets see, $US40/hour (one hour miniumum) +US$25 trip fee to install a stick of ram is prolly my best score.

**Major Kong** · August 1st, 2001, 08:23 PM

Had a work order from our corporate attorney's legal assistant to please clean her mouse pad! <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

**Auric** · August 1st, 2001, 10:47 PM

I love these
"system won't boot"
"internet won't work"

half the time the system boots fine, and the internet works fine! just lamo user errors.

**http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi** · August 3rd, 2001, 07:42 AM

I had a warranty customer come in wanting me to change the "My Computer" icon.

judge___dredd · August 4th, 2001, 11:30 AM

Drove 40 miles the day after I delivered and installed a PC, under the on-site warranty, because the "PC wont work at all". When I took the call I asked all the usual questions about is it plugged in etc. When I got there I turned the monitor on for him, and took his £50.

**cyberhh** · August 6th, 2001, 11:09 AM

I had a customer (read: Temp) who insisted that the machine I sold to the site was broken and that I needed to come out IMMEDIATELY and fix it. Now I was over an hour away and had a two hour minimum repair time (read: $85/hr.) so I did not wish to go all the way out there and turn the machine on. So I was trying to talk her through some basic trouble shooting - things like:

me: "Is the power on"
her: "I've been pushing the spacebar all day long and the machine won't come on"
me: "Did you push the POWER button"
her: "Like I said I've been hitting the space bar all morning and you need to come here NOW and fix it, it's is your machine and it's broken - you need to come here now."
me: "Ok, it's under warranty and I am happy to come out, but if the machine is not broken then you will be billed for the minimum service call."
her: "That's fine. the machine is broken and YOU need to come fix it."

Well I got to the site, walked up to the machine, pushed the power button, and - you guessed it - the machine powered right up and worked liek a champ. Easy - $170 and that temp was never invited back to the site.