Most annoying customer question.

basically any question that starts with "I got a quick question for you", or "do you have a sec to look at something" is going to be the stupidest, most annoying question ever.

"The screws look tight to me", "This error message has to be resolved, ok what is the error message, I don't know it doesn't come up any more", or the one that blew my top "I am going to have your F'ing badge, your F'ing job, and you'll never work again! Now tell me how to fix this invaild system disk error. Me: And again you have to eject the floppy, customer: You F'ing idiot, you think that I am that F'ing stupid (yes) that I would leave a F'ing floppy disk in the F'ing FDD! YOu are so F'ing supid. Me: Humor me, Customer: You F'ing ignorant stupid little man *click* .................................................. ........................................... oh...click"

The really bad ones are when they must call you and bitch whenever the system does something thats not to their liking. Like everytime they get a dialogue box.

Cust: it says "Click Ok" what do i do?
me: click ok
cust: really? are you sure?
me: no of course not click on the other button that doesnt exist, yes click the only f#$%*#g button in front of you!

also onetime there was a woman that brought a system in with a list of demands that we had to fix one of them was that the scroll bars went back to where you started from if you moved the mouse to the side. ok sure lady we'll just hack the kernal and recompile the gui.

Got a customer on the phone explaining how they were trying to connect to the internet...." I was on the phone with my friend (who knows a lot about computers), and they were trying to walk me through hooking up to the internet. It keeps coming up with something about the phone line is busy or something. It's still doing it now.
What should I do?"
Do you have a seperate phone line hooked up in your house? I asked .
" No " she answered " what does that have to do with anything?"
Get off the phone before you dial up to the internet you stupid BIT*H!!

"Is the internet down?"

"I did turn on my computer. The light goes from green to orange, but the screen is black still. Will you jsut bring me a new monitor?"

"How much is a 100mhz Harddrive?"

"How much for that stick of 32 gigbyte ram?"

Could be worse. Imagine what women's clothing store salespeople go through.

"Does this dress make me look fat?"

the worst, most annoying question ever has to be the infamous "can I ask you aquick question?" or "are you busy?".


No you cannot ask a question. that is what the HELP DESK is for.

Yes, I am busy. you think I just wait aroun here for people to aks me quick questions all day? some of us actually have jobs that require us to work.

(sorry, this just happened to me and it pisses me off)

I love "how come I can't ....."
I am so tempted to say "because you messed up" I mean, they put in the wrong password, can't spell their names, and even try to rename the domain, and that is just the password window. When they ask about their e-mail.....Whew! I don't totally understand why so many people think that a password screen is to be bypassed? It is asking for something for a reason and they still click on cancel.

I had someone actually ask me today
"Can you spend about 15 minutes and show me how to build a computer?"
My reply
"Sure, if ya dont want it to work"

I'm a retail tech for one of those office superstores, and one of the more annoying questions I get asked is where the printer artridges are.
well, you might wanna check underneath the twenty four foot side, two foot tall, high contrast sign posted directly over the only counter in the entire building, with the wide and assorted array of printer cartridges displayed behind it

On the same note, I actually had a customer go up to me, point to a picture of a piece of software in the flyer, and ask me 'What does this do'

Hmm,
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Pretty much anytime somebody comes in and says "my friend told me i need more ram cause my internet is slow" ? or normally anything that begins with "My friend that knows a lot about computers says this _____"

And my alltime favourite "The guy at Bell Sympatico says my computer needs to be formatted because you guys did not set it up right" (Bell Sympatico = DSL Service) Their techs kept telling all our customers that their pc's were the problem, I fixed this many many times, with what ? A simple patch released by bell sympatico!

nah... the wort ones are:

"...my cat is near the computer, Should i protect the mouse?"

or

"...if i cut my mouse's cord, it will run away?"

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I'm not a tech, but at home:

"Napster says I performed an illegal operation, does that mean the police are going to come and get me?"

"It says WARNING your internet connection is not optimized and to get Internet Boost now [it is a banner ad], I click the X and it won't close out!"

best one to date was an eghead that used the chat programms,, i was thier with this machine laughing like , almost everytime you conected with aim,, pc got mad at some one waiting for it with aboot program, yeah its my fault as the tech unintsall aim, machine worked great,, tell em a
dot instal iam,,few days later machines back same problem,, wit h aim installed told em i couldnt gaurentte some thing that i specifically told em was the problem, glad it was through a friend that had to deal with her... UGH