When a user calls you up and frantically shouts "I can't file the file in the file! It won't file!", calmly put down the phone, go straight home, then have a beer.
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When a user calls you up and frantically shouts "I can't file the file in the file! It won't file!", calmly put down the phone, go straight home, then have a beer.
http://home.earthlink.net/~psjordal/userese/
Loved the website! Funny...yet painfully true.
Got a new one for you..Compartmentalized..means partitioned according to a very nice new client of mine.
its funny cause its true
Funny but too true. I've passed this around to the other members of my company's support staff.
Reminds me of one of the current CDW print ads ("I opened a virus by accident." Translation: I opened a virus like you told me not to). The woman's facial expression and body language is all too familiar.
See page 75 of PC World, May 2001 issue, also in every other PC related mag I've seen in last coupla months.
Memory n. The hard drive.
RAM n. The hard drive.
Hard Drive Space n. RAM.
:)LOL :) I hear this one every day!
funny
:D
There is a "higher up" IM person I know who CONSTANTLY refers to the computer as a CPU. I am too low on the totem pole to laugh in her face and correct her.
There is also a "higher up" lady in security (IM department) who can't even defrag her hard drive.
I also know yet another "way high up" person in IM who didn't know how to back up her mail to a network share.
And finally, these people have no clue about the difference between a "local" and "network" admin in winnt/win2k.
Sorry this got off the subject...
I had a customer once who insisted on calling the computer (the case part, that is) the modem, and refused to consider any other name for it.
I've also heard it referred to as the "CUP" or the "CPA".
My favorite is " That thingy with the Blinkin Lights " hehehehe :cool:
Wrong, the correct statement is "The blinky thingy under the computer (monitor in techspeak)"Quote:
Originally posted by kamuelajedi:
My favorite is " That thingy with the Blinkin Lights " hehehehe :cool:
they always insist on calling it "the modem" or "the hard drive"
I do remember that when I first started getting interested in computers tho, even the techs called it the CPU.
I just called a lady yesterday to tell her she needed a new modem, she screeched "but thats like a thousand dollars!"
what I don't understand is why they still do it even after you explain it....
or the ones who you tell to bring in the computer and they show up with just the monitor, mouse and keyboard??? Now I say "the big, box thing" if I don't know they understand...
Ah. I had a customer calling the place where you store the files is MEMORY & he wanted 20 Gigs of it !!!. He meant the HDD !!!!
ahad a woman bring her HDD to copy the other day...Gateway 4200 tower....her "hard drive"....she's an admin for chr*st s*ake!!!
Ok, the Userese Dictionary is hosted on a site I lost the account for looooooong ago. :)
I finally got around to minor cosmetic/wording changes and more importantly, an email address that actually points to an active account. :)
http://members.home.net/underseer1/
LOL and i've heard this one the other day.Quote:
Originally posted by Underseer:
Wrong, the correct statement is "The blinky thingy under the computer (monitor in techspeak)"
users HAVE gotten more sophisticated [dumber] over the yers.
Hard Disk: ya, it's the little one I pull out.
I like to use 'box' for the main component of the computer. CPU is also common, even tho we all know the Central Processing unit is really buried deep in the box.
Basiclly we still need to as if the unit is plugged in 1st.
some of my more dumber users call the "box" - the screen which can be annoying/confusing.Quote:
Originally posted by Pfred:
users HAVE gotten more sophisticated [dumber] over the yers.
Hard Disk: ya, it's the little one I pull out.
I like to use 'box' for the main component of the computer. CPU is also common, even tho we all know the Central Processing unit is really buried deep in the box.
Basiclly we still need to as if the unit is plugged in 1st.
...and the assumption that upon developing a software fault, they need a "new" screen not a software reload (which is what they get) :confused:
Hey, that's pretty good! I'll have to remember that site for my new users. :DQuote:
Had somebody the other day who said their computer had crashed. I went over and looked at it, and it was fine. The problem was that Excel was in cell editing mode so a lot of the menus were disabled, toolbars didn't work, keyboard unresponsive, can't select cells with mouse, etc. ESC fixed that one!