Stupid Stupid Stupid users

Heres a funny one..

Service order had the following orders to do on the list
1. check DVD/CDRW (combo drive)
2. Check floppy
3. check video

fine right? I open up the box get the video go to fine..give it a few reboots to make sure and its pickin up ok, now onto the floppy drive, i look down at the motherboard and the "Floppy" controller was empty..no wonder floppy drive didnt work right? So i looked up at the floppy and did sort of a double take.. Why the Hell is there a cable on the floppy when the motherboard slot is empty i asked myself.... The idiot had daisy chained his floppy drive and his DVD/CDRW Combo on the same IDE channel..the floppy was causing the burner not to show up, and the floppy wasn't hooked up right..... some people i swear!

and then his fan siezed while the machine was on and cpu burnt up.

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Originally posted by Auric:
<STRONG>Heres a funny one..

and then his fan siezed while the machine was on and cpu burnt up.</STRONG>

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Another day in tech land!! <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

Just another glorious day in the corp. I LOVE THE CORP. Every meal's a banquet, ever paycheck a fortune, every formation's a parade, I LOVE THE CORP!!!

well see what some people think they can do.

I know how to work on a car, the car is broken ez fix, oh computer is broken ez fix...Wait what wire goes where? is that crack a good sign, oh I can use this fan for my cars air conditioner.....

<IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0"> woooooooo

<IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> had to get it outta me!

Just another glorious day in the corp. I LOVE THE CORP. Every meal's a banquet, ever paycheck a fortune, every formation's a parade, I LOVE THE CORP!!!

I think you have been on the Sulaco one hypersleep too many! <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0">

LOL...nah, I'm a consultant for the army. I could have lunch with Apone every day if I wanted, hehe.

LOL! Some people will try anything

Have you ever considered that without the idiot do-it-yourselfers in the world to screw things up, you'd be out of a job? Sounds like job security to me... <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

dumb people rule. they keep me and the virus writers in business. I cleaned 6 infections of hybris, 4 of sircam, 2 of choke and 2 of subseven off 6 different machines today. Also sold 6 copies of NAV 2001 today as well.

Gotta love 'em! They keep us employed. Our firewall admin/ e-mail admin just loves it when people get viruses, especially when the dang thing is publicl announced in the newspapers and CNN. He tends to mutter things about darwin and evolution at that time. He has no pity on them, but that is because he's a bit peeved because he has to go set up some new rule for the exchange servers or check the log on what's coming in and out of the firewall or something. I love it because it is almost like knowing that someone will get one and waiting to gets the newest one. Each time it is another user down ( to update their antivirus program because they think the definitions and scan engine have been updating them selves every day for the last three years! ) and hundreds left to fix. Sure, we know that there are droves of users that need updating, but we wait for the real excuse that way they don't make all kinds of excuses to ignore us and the upgrade they need.
Gotta love them users!

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Originally posted by WesFlash:
<STRONG>Gotta love 'em! They keep us employed. Our firewall admin/ e-mail admin just loves it when people get viruses, especially when the dang thing is publicl announced in the newspapers and CNN. He tends to mutter things about darwin and evolution at that time. He has no pity on them, but that is because he's a bit peeved because he has to go set up some new rule for the exchange servers or check the log on what's coming in and out of the firewall or something. I love it because it is almost like knowing that someone will get one and waiting to gets the newest one. Each time it is another user down ( to update their antivirus program because they think the definitions and scan engine have been updating them selves every day for the last three years! ) and hundreds left to fix. Sure, we know that there are droves of users that need updating, but we wait for the real excuse that way they don't make all kinds of excuses to ignore us and the upgrade they need.
Gotta love them users!</STRONG>

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Right on Brother
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Aye. I love this job. I love being A+ Certified even more... :D :p HAHAHAHA. I could do this job ALLLL day, and still not kill the users I'm supposed to help.

i had one user who'd forced a 512kb cache stick from an old elonex machine into a 72pin slot needless to say there was alot of smoke pouring out of the machine...

hehehehe money rolled in that day :) :D :)

Am I the only one who has ever had to deal with a non booting machine because someone left a floppy with data only on it in the drive?

I think not.............

I received a call from an old guy who had just purchased a new computer from our store.

User: Hi, my name is ID10T and I just brought my computer home and set it up and there seems to be a problem with my keyboard.
Me: What seems to be the problem sir?
U: The keyboard keeps typing asterisks.
M: That's strange, when does this happen?
U: When I'm typing in my password for AOL.
M: Oh, well sir it is supposed to that.
U: Why?
M: Well it keeps other people from seeing your password, when you type it in.
U: But, I live alone.
M. Well sir the computer does not know that.
U: Well how do I know that I'm typing in the right password.
M: Type in your password very slowly.
U: OK, thanks.

Thank god for stupid users, if they were all as competent as us we would be in the unemployment line.

Working for a retail chain that has a tech bench in each store. I have seen my fair share of idiotic and boneheaded users. One alway comes to mind when people ask about my job. This clown is a law student a local college. He has an IBM desktop, a miniture copy machine that never works right for him, but of course the minute we take a look at it nothing is wrong. When we started work on his computer he would call use and refer to it as his "mainframe" and no amount of explanation could change his mind on the terminalogy. When we finished work that first time he came to pickup his computer and went absolutly nuts that we had even moved his tower with out a "travel disk" in the floppy drive. And that if the drive was broken he would sue the company and the tech. Turns out that he thought you needed to put a floppy disk in the drive to even pickup and move the tower. Since then, over the past year this guy comes up with some new reason every month or so to bring his computer in. Still spouting off about his mainframe and travel disks. He even goes so far as to walk back into the employee only area if we do not come out to help him fast enough of if its not a tech who comes to help him.

I could post about stupid users all night long hehe.

Had one guy call me:

StupidCustomer: "I plugged the little 4 wire pin into the floppy drive when the machine was on, now the floppy drive won't work.
Me: "Well, by plugging it in while it was on, I'm sure you did some damage. For one, the drive is probably bad, have you tried a new drive?"
SC: "yes, it didn't work"
ME: "well I can't tell you for sure, but my guess is the surge went up the floppy cable and took out your floppy controller. You could fix it if you wanted, but I'm sure you'd need a new floppy drive, motherboard, and a new P/S just to be safe"
SC: "but I could just use the computer with no floppy drive right?"
ME: "if it works otherwise, i'm sure you could"
SC: "ok thanks" <click>

Another different call:
SC2: "my hard drive was going out, so I took it apart and turned the little discs around, but when I put it back together, it still didn't work"
ME: <trying to even figure out what to say to this> "uhm... do you mean to tell me you actually took apart the hard drive?"
SC2: "well yes, I thought by turning the discs around maybe I can write data to the other side and it'll be fine"
ME: <very sternly> "the drive's dead, you have no chance of retreiving data now"

<smacks head on forehead>

/|rokh