Author: Kevin Miller
Date: 17:35:12 12/13/00
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On December 13, 2000 at 00:07:11, Ed Schröder wrote: >On December 12, 2000 at 21:36:45, John Merlino wrote: > >>On December 12, 2000 at 21:15:48, Michael Cummings wrote: >> >>>A while back I was doing tech Support for a company, and you would not believe >>>how many people would ring up and abuse me for a monitor, printer, scanner, not >>>working. >>> >>>You first ask them is it plugged in, which is met with an arrogant yes. Then >>>after telling them to check, you would not believe how many were not plugged in, >>>and its an quick, "I got it now" or "Oh Sorry" followed by a hang up of the >>>phone. >>> >>>And another great one, is someone trying to write to a write protected disk. >>> >>>Some can also turn on the monitor, but nothing else and wonder why the computer >>>will not turn on. >>> >>>I did not stay in that job for too long, I can only handle so much crap, when >>>most of the time people just will not check what they are doing. >>> >>>My mother is a great one, it's click everything till something comes up. Lets >>>click on MS Word icon six times to open it, so we can have it opened up 3 times. >> >>That last one would be my father as well.... >> >>jm > >Or this one: man buys his first PC and Rebel8 (on diskette). To install >Rebel8 he put the diskette in...... his cdrom drive. Since this wasn't >so easy he pushed and pushed and pushed even harder. Then he called and >complaint he could not install Rebel8 and that the diskette was broken >and could not be taken out anymore. It took us some time to find out he >had put the diskette in the cdrom by force instead of in the diskette >station. Since this man lived near to us one of my cooperators went to >his home was shocked to see the damage done to his brandnew expensive PC, >took the diskette out, installed Rebel8 and left. We never heard from him >again but we always have wondered if that was a good sign or not. > >Ed Yes -- how DARE that gentleman try to force his diskette into his cup holder like that!
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