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(799 posts)I needed that!
calimary
(81,085 posts)Were all not awake yet, over here.
calimary
(81,085 posts)Played it for my husband, and laughed out loud, too!
niyad
(113,020 posts)KS Toronado
(17,136 posts)Wish he would have told him.....well, we'll just let you get covid and die then.
Delmette2.0
(4,157 posts)He works on a tech Help Desk and as of Jan 1 he will be a Supervisor.
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)usaf-vet
(6,161 posts)GB_RN
(2,322 posts)I was in IT, and I started off in IT Help Desk. I can't tell you the number of times I saw ID-10T errors. I certainly wanted to tell people to unplug their computers and send them back because they weren't competent to use them on even a basic level.
Seriously, I had people tell me their mouse wouldn't work, when the problem was, they'd unplugged the mouse and forgotten to plug it back in! Or, they couldn't locate a file, swore they'd saved it in one location and now it "was deleted, all [their] work just gone". Now, if you'd looked at their desktop, you'd have seen a jumble of files and shortcuts...just a massive Charlie Foxtrot. After searching through that CF, I'd find the file in all that shite. 🤬🤦♂️
The list of horror stories goes on and on. lol
usaf-vet
(6,161 posts)... working with government agencies, schools, and small businesses. And yes, then stories could go on forever.
Here is one of my turning the table's stories. I started with the early with Apple products. The Apple II (pre-MAC). Schools were buying them in mass. They all came with 5 1/4" floppy drives. Apple teamed me up with the most prominent local vendor. So here is the story. All the Computers came with some early "business" software. I took one of the 5.25 floppy disks, folded it in half, stapled it together, put it in a business envelope with a note complaining that this disk doesn't work. Please fix it and return it ASAP.
I signed the intentionally terse letter Mike R. Hacker Technology Director.
It sat there at their office for several weeks until I made my next scheduled visit. At some point, I asked the owner how things were going, any problems, etc. The owner called down to the tech's room and told them to bring up the "idiot's letter." I lasted seconds before I burst out laughing. My face told the rest of the story.
Guess who bought lunch for the crew that day.
calimary
(81,085 posts)Im loving this! I may start using it!
One-D-Ten-T - just to throw em off!
mountain grammy
(26,595 posts)Klondike Kat
(809 posts)Problem
Exists
Between
Chair
And
Keyboard
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Id10t Between Keyboard and Chair.
calimary
(81,085 posts)And the same can be said for Klondike Kats post just above yours!