Computer stupidities
Humor, Personal, Blogging October 20th, 2006
- Here is something for you to laugh.
- Tech Support: “Ok, why don’t you turn off error control and see if that clears the problem up.”
- Customer: “Turn off AIR control? What the heck is AIR control??”
An instructor in the BASIC programming language was teaching his class how to write a simple program and execute it. When each student had all their program steps keyed in, he told the class to type R-U-N and enter. A lady in the back of the class said that it didn’t work. It turned out, when the instructor had said to type R-U-N, she had typed, “are you in.”
- Tech Support: “Customer Support, this is David, may I help you?”
- Customer: “Hello, yes, it’s me.”
- Tech Support: “Oh, it’s me too.” [chuckle]
- Customer: “No, Esmie. E, s, m, i, e.”
- Tech Support: “Oh, sorry.”
- Tech Support: “Type ‘fix’ with an ‘f’.”
- Customer: “Is that ‘f’ as in ‘fix’?”
- Customer: “How do you spell ‘Internet America’? Is there a space between ‘inter’ and ‘net’?”
- Tech Support: “No space between ‘inter’ and ‘net’. It’s spelled normally.”
- Customer: “Ok. A-M-E-R-I-C-K?”
- Tech Support: “That’s A-M-E-R-I-C-A.”
- Customer: “I-C-K???”
- Tech Support: “‘A’ as in apple”
- Customer: “There’s no ‘K’ in apple!”
- Customer: “I was printing something.”
- Tech Support: “From before you called?”
- Customer: “No, from Word.”
- Tech Support: “Where in the building is your printer located?”
- Customer: “Middle of my desk.”
- Tech Support: “If I have to give someone directions, where do I tell them to go?”
- Customer: “In the middle of my desk where I work.”
- Tech Support: “Well, sir, in that case I have to cancel the test and try again. So please leave your cable modem on this time.”
- Customer: (in a thick Russian accent) “What? You have cancer?”
- Tech Support: “Tell me, is the cursor still there?”
- Customer: “No, I’m alone right now.”
- Tech Support: “Are you reading an error message to me?”
- Customer: “No, I’m reading an error message to you.”
- Tech Support: “Do you have 3 1/2 inch diskettes?”
- Customer: “No, I only have 3 of them.”
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Quite amusing Carol,but you could have changed my name to Fred,i don’t want everybody knowing i work in Tech Support
Are you really working in Tech support,Dave?
I will change the name then.
Don’t be silly,as if i could in Tech Support,i’ve got all on switching the computer on.
And writing a proper sentence as well,by the look of what i’ve just published.
You could have been if you wanted to….
This mad me laugh, it sounds like me though, (the customer that is)
I have worked in tech support years ago (when 486s were hot items) and remember telling a customer over the phone to turn off their computer so that we could start diagnosing a problem from scratch. After repeated “what the computer doing now?”, followed by “Nothing”, I realized I had not told the customer to turn the computer back on.
U wouldn’t have the patience to do that job or the brains.
In the beginning,we were all dummies with computers.
You have to feel sorry for some tech support people, they really go through the mill with customers who know nothing and some who are not even willing to help themselves.
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I didn’t mean U,i meant I
lol that is really funny
Lmao!Dave,even if you didn’t mean it,i was a dummie once. The only thing is that i can’t recall asking dumb questions when i had problems.Just said that i have and let them guide me.Till…i decided that is time to learn all this on my own.I never called the tech support again.
Well i’m just plain dumb,can’t even get the url to copy on youtube now.
So funny!! I’m glad I don’t work as tech support otherwise that would make me go bonkers or institutionalized.
Lolz…