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August 21st, 2001, 12:18 PM
#16
A woman's pc locked up (WinNT)
Ctrl-Alt-Del - Task Manager - Processes
CPU time was around 407 hours.
Do the math and figure out how many days this pc was left on. And she wondered why things were going so slow.
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August 21st, 2001, 03:49 PM
#17
Problem: Fix computer or will drop on F*CKING head(not joking, this is what she said, and she is in her mid 50's, later found she was drunk)
Customer's Location: 65 miles
Trip Charge:$27.00 minimum, outside 30 miles, $2.00 a mile.
Resolution: Turned Speaker volume up.
Grand Total: $182.00
Grin On My Face: Priceless
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August 22nd, 2001, 02:33 AM
#18
Senior Member
user offerd me £50 to look at her computer "because her icons were to big" right clicked, properties, set screen size
with the response of "eeeee, i didnt know u could do that" - i had spent 40minutes on the phone trying to talk the user through it....
gawd, i hate these guys sometimes, (well the tight fisted ones anyway  )
All sorts of wonderful things in life.
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August 29th, 2001, 08:45 AM
#19
Registered User
I had a user tell me she had lost her "hoverability"...to me, that is something women do over public toilets...
I humored her and went to her desk..she couldnt "hover" over her calander and see what the meeting was (so she said)...like it takes ALOT of effort to double click the entry....Anyway, I went up there, "hovered" and it was fine...
Go figure...damn users...
Failure is not an option -- its a "feature" of Windows.
Mama never told me geekhood was gonna be like this.... 
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September 5th, 2001, 03:51 PM
#20
Registered User
Sure, I've had people who want their porn saved (we won't do it in the shop but I'm always willing to make some after-hours ca$h.)
Best work order ever was for a VCR. Sales guy took it in on his first day. I'd never worked on a VCR in my life, but I fixed it and charged him $50 (the VCR was only worth $10 at yard-sale prices.) The drive belt had slipped from its groove, and it happened to be the same size as one from an old SCSI CDRom.
Most profitable was the lady that had a list of things fo rme to do on-site. Fix the network on at least 6 machines, 2 monitor problems, 3 people's mice didn't work, etc. I get there and she isn't there. I'm told I can't work until she arrives, she is the only one who knows what's wrong and where in the huge building. I bill her from the time I arrive, she calls my cell and says "Wait I'll be right there." 2 hours later I am calling her cell to no answer.
She got caught in a meeting and I was hanging out all day, promised I would be paid. $420 and all I managed was to fix a laser printer that the receptionist (who I was hitting on) couldn't get working.
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Try Windows Vista, the CE.ME.NT eXPerience...
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September 5th, 2001, 06:02 PM
#21
A man walked in to the reception at the place where I worked just fuming and carrying his monitor.
What was wrong? My computer already has a virus and I want you to take out that stupid ball.
AND IT STILL HAS A WARRANTY!
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September 6th, 2001, 03:34 AM
#22
i once had a guy asking me to make $50,- if i could make a digital foto of him working behind his pc, for me to send to his wife when he went away with his secretary,if you know what i mean
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September 6th, 2001, 06:09 AM
#23
I'm in a corporate IS dept so I don't get to charge anybody but just this morning the head of security called me over and asked me to fix why he couldn't get through to the Pittsburgh Steelers website. (Their site was down) I've also had people bring in their home pc's for me to work on while at work. Usually they have the courtesy to ask first but not always. If I like them I usually help out, a perk of being an IS guy's buddy.
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September 7th, 2001, 12:03 AM
#24
We have sales staff running around with laptops, we also have mapped drives on the network for them to connect to to run our Dbase program, Got a call this morning from one of them saying thet they cant get email, cant get onto the network etc.......they forgot to plug the network cable into their Xircom 10/100 network cards.
It was like that when I got here!_ _ _ ___ _ _ _ pig's a$$.
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September 7th, 2001, 12:04 PM
#25
Errrrrrrrrrrr every IT work order I get.
(not joking)
usually its "why won't my computer connect to the internet?" look down and they knocked the cable out of the wall from sitting their crap on it, or from kicking it. Or "can you move my pc from the left side of my desk to the right side" it takes me half an hour to do that because I have to move about 5000 pictures of their 7 kids, dog, grandma, husband, etc...and all the stupid desktop crap, figurines, stuffed animals. I swear I think every woman here has at least 2 kids a piece and enough pictures to choke a horse. Or "hey can you change my icons into winnie the pooh icons with the tigger wallpaper?" Yeah I learned all these operating systems just so I can make their pc look like a 10 year old girls notebook. One of the managers here even has N'Sync dolls sitting on her monitor.
But by far the two most hated things here are those freaking headsets, man I have nightmares about those. Here the reps use Headsets and about 20 break a week. so I am constantly replacing those and locking them down. (yeah I went to school for this?) And when a PC shuts down and I need parts, they always want me to find away around buying stuff. "Well do you really need those keyboard adapters so the old p166 (which use an old AT 5 pin din) can use the new keyboards (which don't come with connectors only can fit in a ps/2 port)?" Or Boss: "why is my pc so slow?" me: because you only have 32mb of ram and you have like 12 excel spreadsheets open and the internet. Boss: well what can we do? Me: Buy some more ram, its really cheap right now. Boss: Is there anything else we can do besides buying more equipment? Me: yeah don't open as many programs on your computer. Boss: Anything else besides that?
Please someone kill me.
Sorry for the rant. I know someone is going to say "why don't you get another job?" and my answer is "I am looking right now, but the market here sucks"
But sorry the rant again and thank you guys for reading my long (possibly boring) rant.
All Hail Windrivers!!!!!!!!!
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Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye, then its just fun in the dark.
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September 11th, 2001, 11:13 PM
#26
A few months ago, I had an onsite service call to hook up a ladies answering machine to her fax machine (so someone could either leave a message, or send a fax on the same line).
Being a "PC Technician", I don't dilly dally a lot with answering machines. Got there, asked her for the manual, read it for about 15 seconds, knew what to do, and bam! all done!
Charging $125/hour with 1 hour minimum, made out pretty handsomly on that one!
/|rokh
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September 25th, 2001, 08:34 PM
#27
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September 28th, 2001, 09:02 AM
#28
$40 to install a pirated copy of Office2K and find a vaild reg number.
$30 to install 128MB SDRAM.
$50 to remove address labels stuck on the feed rollers in a laser printer.
$20 to remove a mini-CD from a slot-loading CD-ROM drive in an iMac.
Free Korn/Staind concert tickets for setting up AOL on the manager of ASIA security's laptop. (He ruled!)
Free Voodoo 3 3000 after replacing it with an ATI All-in-Wonder.
God I miss that job.... well, not really.
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"Damn the man. Save the Empire" Mark - Empire Records
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September 28th, 2001, 08:03 PM
#29
Drove an hour to show a lady that her floppy drive was not broken after doing an upgrade. Then I turned the floppy disk around and inserted it the way it should be.
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I was here, here I was, was I here? I hope I was....
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September 29th, 2001, 09:49 PM
#30
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