YASU (Yet Another Stupid User)

I've done similar :) (but only to Users who i know will not be offended and will have a good laugh at it)

one guy always takes a while to "catch on", but then roars with laughter when he figures out i've sent him off to do the impossible..he pulls stuff on me..so he gets me back.

Whole city is blacked out, and if your power is out, go to www.BlowItOutYourEar.com to report it.

Huh?

And someone at sometime probably got a raise for that idea! :0

Dear All,

As a matter of "fun" the first writing is good enough. It's a fact that the "The Good and the Bad, makes the World". Now read below :

Once a Client(PC Owner) calls a Help Desk to fix some software error in his computer(No CD/DVD(s) only floppy disk(s)).

The Help desk person right asked the Client to gather the relevant floppy disk for installation/troubleshooting process and asked to insert the FIRST FLOPPY in the drive and to do the commands.

After a while, the Client told the help desk engineer that "On the Monitor screen, it displays - Insert Floppy#2 ... and the helpdesk person asked the Client to insert the Floppy.

After a while, the Client told the help desk engineer that "On the Monitor screen, it displays - Insert Floppy#3... and the helpdesk person asked the Client to insert the Floppy#3, then the Client replied back that he can't insert the Floppy#3.

Now you "guess" what's the "REAL" thing ...

Hope you will enjoy ...

Warm Regards
Menon.

This makes no sense. Are you telling a story about an incident or is this the makings of a joke? If it is indeed a joke, let's hear the punchline.

a breeze is about all it takes now.... :0

And then you run around giving visuals like THAT and , well, WOW! ]:)

Take foot out? Foot fetish? not quite the same appeal, but who am I to judge, right? ;\

:x

We sent a transcriptionist home with her pc and modem, circa 1999. We color coded everything... plug the blue cable into the hole with the blue dot, green to green, etc... She calls us mad as can be becuase the modem didn't work. After HOURS of phone support and making sure she was plugged into the wall, we had her bring it back in and demonstrate how she was setting it up. She demonstrated and come to find out, she wasn't plugging it into the wall. She thought all she had to do was plug the modem into the pc and it would magically find a phone line. Two months later we ended up taking the equipment back and she was not allowed to work from home any longer.

The sharer... This is the person that comes from another dept to do his business in our department, and stops up the toilet. Then you are the one that has to call maintenance, who doesn't believe that you are not the culprit.

Where'd u get "all that" from their post? It was FUNNY. Nothing more, nothing less.

R U sure u aren't making a freudian slip? Maybe u r the one that should rethink their career?

You must forgive them, users like these account for a portion of the sustenance of our existence, not to mention proliferate huge entertainment value!

Unless the user has proven to be stupid, I would'nt call them stupid. Maybe ignorant.

I think I knew what happened... ;)
I have not see anybody that really do things like that, but the world is big, right?

Hey WMW,
I'm a noob to posting here, but occasionally scan the fourms for intresting articles.

Couldn't help but find it funny that you would have the balls to call a user stupid (although the story was kind of funny) and then turn around and ask a quesiton like this. Especially adding that you think it's for a cold or strep throat.

Okay, so you didn't know that your MD. was checking for an inguinal hernia, basically a hole in your abdominal wall that your intestines can poke through between your abdominal wall and your skin; possibly becoming kinked causing stangulation and eventually necrosis if not delt with.
Cool, now you know. That didn't make you stupid to start with, just not knowledgeable in that area.

Now a user watering his/her plants sitting on top of a CRT monitor on the other hand...definitely ID-10T material there. :c)

PS, You can bet your MD doesn't want to check your privates, but it's part of the job.

My 2 Cents

Thank you Maxwell
I, too, reached a restricted page with your link, but on following the Click here link, I found a discussion on
"How to uninstall software on Linux"

As is my wont, I followed the path....

In there was a Post by
Palmetto "I'm sympathetic" in which he gives a link to an article by Eric Raymond about
"How To Ask Questions The Smart Way"
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

It sorta loops back to the topic of this thread, as it describes Looooooosers/Winnnnnners (but not in a facetious way)

Very nicely presented article, a great find, thank you for that, Maxwell.

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Serendipity: to make discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things not in quest of.

I have seen lawyer posts about clients and DR posts about patients. All of which have been funny. In fact, I have laughed at myself for thinking the same things their clients did.
If we can't laugh at the situation, then there is a problem. We are not laughing at the people. Each profession has its "funnies."
I had a CEO get a new laptop with wireless. He called me later that evening to tell me it wouldn't power up. I asked if he had his power cord with him. He said he didn't need it. When I inquired as why, he said "it's wireless goofy! It charges without a cable!" I was silent for about 5 seconds until he finally laughed. He realized what he said. He said, "guess that is going into the archives or company newsletter huh?" I explained I don't do that. He knows (as does anyone) that techs tell funny stories. We do delete the names and titles (except this time to make a point) to protect them from embarassment. Believe it or not, he WANTED it in the newsletter. He said that he would like everyone to know that everyone makes mistakes!
I understand everyone's point.
My opinion is just that, my opinion.
I enjoy reading the stories and know that I am not alone.
Surf the web ladies and gents. I can almost bet there is a story out there from a different profession that talks about something you have probably done. I enjoy laughing at the things I have done. I'm sure your users tell their family and friends and get a good laugh too.
I even have a gent that calls himself "write click!" He was in a class and was told to "right-click." He opened Word and typed "click." He loves the story and doesn't mind telling others himself. Everyone has some sense of humor. Some are different than others.
I truly feel dryflies was not trying to bash anyone. It is just a funny story.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!

One of the funniest PC problems I ever encountered was at a small shop I worked at. Went in one morning and the boss says there's a computer on the bench for me to look at.

I took one look and just busted out laughing because the entire motherboard side of the case was covered with magnetic business cards.

He'd taken it to other shops where no problems could be found. Turned out he'd always removed all the cards first but was in a hurry when bringing it to us. :)

The fix was simply removing the cards and an explanation of why magnets, even a large number of weak ones, don't mix well with a computer. Probably wouldn't have caused trouble if he stuck them on the other side of the case, but I didn't tell the owner that!