Dumb Assed Question

I recently replaced the HDD in a customers machine with a larger one and hooked their old one up as a secondary drive.
He calls me about 2 hours later and asks "I dont know why you did this, i cant put anything on the second drive" why not i ask, "because, it doesnt have windows on it"

I told him I was busy and id call him back in a minute. I hung up the phone laughed for 5 minutes straight. https://forums.windrivers.com/

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I had a customer call up... Asking me about hard drive partitions... He wanted a 10 gig hard drive for his new machine, and wanted to partition it twice... So He can put 5 gigs in his new machine and 5 gigs in his old machine. I almost pissed my pants when I heard that. I don't even think partition magic is that magical to physically split a drive in 2 lol.

-Machine

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Someone asked if A+ Certification was hard to get. Hmm...if you have to ask, maybe you shouldn't take the course. LOL!

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"What is Normal?" he asked.
Hmm...dare I get into a philosophical debate? Should I choose the Zen philosophy, the Buddist philosophy, or the Christian philosophy? How could one possible answer what normal is. Who judges what is normal and what is not? Perhaps the average of what the masses consist of is normal? </font>

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I thought "Normal" was a setting on your dryer? https://forums.windrivers.com/

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ROFL! Shouldn't there be a mandate that all computer cases use Hex screws? And the screwdrivers wouldn't be sold to the public. That'd solve alot of problems.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jallentino:
I just had a guy walk in here and say "I just broke my dongle!" Almost shot Dr. Pepper out of my nose. He was referring to his network cable adapter. I told him he should see a doctor.

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LOL!!! I almost spit a mouthful of corn chips out when I read this! This place cracks me up! Gotta love those customers.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Machine:
I had a customer call up... Asking me about hard drive partitions... He wanted a 10 gig hard drive for his new machine, and wanted to partition it twice... So He can put 5 gigs in his new machine and 5 gigs in his old machine. I almost pissed my pants when I heard that. I don't even think partition magic is that magical to physically split a drive in 2 lol.

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Christ, what a cumb dunt!!! Or a pucking frick! Some guy came in asking at the store I was visiting and he asked "Do Hard drives come already formatted and parttioned?"



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Ok. I received my dumbest question BEFORE lunch (10:30am EST to be exact). A guy called up and said he was trying to install QuickBooks. He said that the message on the screen told him he needed to restart his computer. "What does that mean?"

"Alright class, today we're going to learn about ROOT words. Today's word we will learn about is 'restart'. What does 'restart' mean? Well, the ROOT word, 'start' means to begin. The prefix 're' means 'again'. Now, when we put these two together we get, 'begin again'. How do we restart a computer? Well, let's first look at how we STOP a computer. Then, we will look at how to START a computer. Doing these two things at the same time...the STOP/START lets us RESTART the computer."

Now, if the system came up, and said, "Please short the voltage regulartor," then I would have been a little more leaneant on the guy. But, what does "RESTART" mean really takes the cake!

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by n8dawg:
I had a customer ask how would he know his ups was working...he wanted to know if it would beep or sumthing i told him that i dont know if that perticular model would beep but if all tha lights in tha house were off and his puter was still on than tha ups is probaly working. there was a customer behide him that just started to crake up, the guy got mad and ran out the store, i was starting to cry, my sides were hurting, and i told all the customers i had to take a break,</font>

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Speaking of ups i had a person that came in one nite had already exchanged the ups out w/ anouther one 3 time and none of them worked so he wanted me to try one first to see if it would work i opened the box looked at the yellow lable that said don't plug in till battery is coneced and then showed how to hook the battery up so i went did that and tested it for him to show it work then he asked how i did that i told him i connected the battery he told me he had no idea that he had to do that, i asked him then if he read the yellow lable that was over the power switch he said no what does it say "connect battery before u plug it in" he at there wonder how stupid that was

that the battery was not conected when shipped that is


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I can't back up my hard drive, there's no reverse button.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by sprkymrk:
I thought "Normal" was a setting on your dryer? https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Hmm...maybe I shoulda told him, "It's for non-permapress and non-delicates." https://forums.windrivers.com/

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***the Beast
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Arrrrgh. I've been getting stupid questions all day! Why? Am I working in some particularly stupid store, with particularly stupid clientele? Or just very old-fashioned (pronounced: `IG no rent) ?

No. I could deal with that. I have dealt with that when I had to. But here, I shouldn't have to deal with that, because 'here' is in an A+ training course!

No less than 9 times today did the young lady on my left panic when she got error beeps on boot, only to panickedly ask me, whereupon I promptly discovered that she'd forgotten to attatch, or mis-attatched, the video signal cable or the keyboard. Have you ever seen someone successfully plug a 5-pin keyboard DIN into an ethernet co-ax connector? Seen it twice in one day?

Then comes the shrewd diagnostician in the row behind me, who gets my attention in order to ask if I know why his computer is *_smelling_bad_*. He thinks he maybe put a wire in wrong, vaguely, somewhere. I suggested he shut it down and then follow the smoke trails. ARGH!

Whew. Needed to vent.
Man, I feel sorry for our teacher.....




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OTOH, here's one that always gets me thinking in a very tech-Zen mode. It's a message left on our tech support answering machine.

"Um, hi, okay, guys? I ... uh, I think I have a problem here. See, what I did was I clicked on Netscape, right? Two times real fast, right? Right, so Netscape came up and loaded the start page and everything and it was great, except that the link I want to follow is all the way on the left side of the screen, and my pointer-thingie is in the middle of the screen, and I want to move it to the left some more, but I totally ran out of mouse-pad! There's no where to go!"

< * pause while snickering * >

< then prepare for Zen twist >

"I know I'm not real good with computers, and I don't want to f*ck anything up here, so I think what I'm gonna do is just leave it here and not touch it until you get back to me, ok? That should be safe, right?
So, get back to me soon, please, because I'd like to use my computer, but I don't want to damage it accidentally. Ok, bye."


Gentle readers, I put the question to you thus: Is it better to be a typical user (ie, clueless, obstreperous, confused, and with the analytical power of a dill pickle) or a stupendous moron, but one who knows when to back off?

I ponder this. If they must make mistakes, wouldn't it be nice if they all made them this well?

hm. hmmmmmm.




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