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by awimsatt

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by andydufrane

...when "Do you want to drive?" means Do you want to sit at the keyboard more than it means Do you want to drive the car?

..when you're told "I don't need all the technical details..." at least twice a day.

...the gadgets at thinkgeek.com fillout the top 10 of your xmas list.

by sgt_shultz

you know....when...

you are profitably self-employed and have vanity license plates that say 'THANX BILL'

by rtfm error

you go to the premier of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, are watching the movie, very engrossed, and when Gollum lashes out at Frodo and hisses at him, you turn to your co-worker and say "boy, that reminds me of an end-user not getting their way"and they nod in agreement.

by cglrcng9

...Every note or card you received this year on the job had "The Miracle Worker" inserted between your first & last name, and you NEEDED to hold your own bake sale to get rid of all the holiday rewards heaped upon you. Hey, true story! So I can't actually help the kids in that Lego Robotics class over @ the middle school w/ actual the programming or building thier robot, but there was nothing against fundraising in the rules.

Have a Great Holiday Season All. BTW, great idea for a thread!

by alpha-male

In the Holiday spirit of things...

You have a whole new appreciation for "The Nightmare before Christmas" because DEC 25 = OCT 31 to you....

by jpruitt

You know you're a computer support guy when...you turn off your wife and sleep with your computer.

by mrjay67

when its Christmas eve and you still get to be at work.

or

for Christmas(or whatever your holiday might be) you hope you get some Cisco equipment to improve your LAN.

or

you know that gopher isnt just an animal.

when you see the word "networking" and you automaticly assume its about LAN/WAN, and dont realize it could be about connecting with other people or a pyramid scheme.

by alpha-male

....your entire Christmas list can be purchased at CompUSA or Stay Online.

Merry Christmas all! Wishing you great hardware and software throughout the holidays and in 2003!

by dieter.huerten

You know you're a computer support guy when...

... you put an (passport)photography inside every computer-casing so they're "monitored" all the time an will work 'til eternity........

by fenaikh

the dumbest user beilve you are someone else , then you wish you could be someone else.

by fenaikh

could not stop at one reason ...

When the most dumbest user reminde you that you are here to support him whatever he is and he is doing the actual work that keeps your company business running and paying you.
and he is standing over your shoulder watching what are you doing and then ask you when you will finsh your task while you just started constrtions to check what dumb things he did to his PC.
When he most dumbest user say "Oh God, I am so dumb with computers I did not know it is this so problem where it is easy that he could do it him self".
When the most dumbest user did something to test your ability to fix things.
When you have to drive to help a user move an office toolbar or clear the browser cache or affirm power plug.
When waisting your time to make the most dumbest user the most happy user.
When a dumb manager or a dumb user insisit to go over and fix a problem such as move an office toolbar or clear the browser cache or affirm power plug. Where you could solve it over a phone call or with a remote control util.

.. ... ect ... I can not cintueo or I will spoil my day......

Note:

since there are worst than each other I did omit number them.

by jereg

....everytime you stand at a counter or sit accross a desk, you find yourself reading the mfr. tag on the back of the monitor, and you know what that stuff means.

....when you overhear people discussing computer issues, you know that they are impossibly lame, and if they just ask you, you could give them the right answer.

....you've given so many correct support answers over the years, and yet users do what they want to anyway, you no longer have any interest in other peoples computer problems. They won't listen.

....you keep a few spare pocket protectors in your sock drawer, and secretly try to figure ways to fit your PalmPilot into one.

....you decide there's no use in keeping those 20mb MFM hard drives you got back in 1988 around, so you pitch them out.

....you've pitched out the old hardrives, but you keep the five and a quarter inch floppies because, "someone may need them someday". (Yeah!)

by awimsatt

I love it when that happens. i always tell people that I fixed it remotely and that they should do something about the porn on their computer before their boss finds out. Works everytime.

by awimsatt

You might want to get that checked. Normal would be joystick. How does that even work really?

by awimsatt

HAHA. I dies laughing at this one. I don't know why I found it so funn... Oh hold on there's the phone.