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YFZ450Ridr
03-26-2006, 07:42 PM
a lot of these are pretty good, amazing how dumb some people are.

Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press Return Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the "Any" key is.

AST technical support had a caller complaining that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on. The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mouse was packaged in.

Another Compaq technician received a call from a man complaining that the system wouldn't read word processing files from his old diskettes. After trouble-shooting for magnets and heat failed to diagnose the problem, it was found that the customer labeled the diskettes then rolled them into the typewriter to type the labels.

Another AST customer was asked to send a copy of her efective diskettes. A few days later a letter arrived from the customer along with Xeroxed copies of the floppies.

A Dell technician advised his customer to put his troubled floppy back in the drive and close the door. The customer asked the tech to hold on, and was heard putting the phone down, getting up and crossing the room to close the door to his room.

Another Dell customer called to say he couldn't get his computer to fax anything. After 40 minutes of trouble-shooting, the technician discovered the man was trying to fax a piece of paper by holding it in front of the monitor screen and hitting the "send" key.

Another Dell customer needed help setting up a new program, so a Dell tech suggested he go to the local Egghead. "Yeah, I got me a couple of friends,"the customer replied. When told Egghead was a software store, the man said, "Oh, I thought you meant for me to find a couple of geeks."

Yet another Dell customer called to complain that his keyboard no longer worked. He had cleaned it by filling up his tub with soap and water and soaking the keyboard for a day, then removing all the keys and washing them individually.

A Dell technician received a call from a customer who was enraged because his computer had told him he was "bad and an invalid". The tech explained that the computer's "bad command" and "invalid" responses shouldn't be taken personally.

An exasperated caller to Dell Computer Tech Support couldn't get her new Dell Computer to turn on. After ensuring the computer was plugged in, the technician asked her what happened when she pushed the power button. Her response, "I pushed and pushed on this foot pedal and
nothing happens." The "foot pedal" turned out to be the computer's mouse.

Another customer called Compaq tech support to say her brand-new computer wouldn't work. She said she unpacked the unit, plugged it in, and sat there for 20 minutes waiting for something to happen. When asked what happened when she pressed the power switch, she asked "What power switch?"

03-26-2006, 07:50 PM
the retards we have in this country is just sad

antman
03-26-2006, 07:53 PM
stupid peple are so funny:D

Doober
03-26-2006, 07:57 PM
thats hillarious...really i dont think computers are that hard to figure out:D

LTZ400rider
03-26-2006, 09:57 PM
i think half of these are made up

250R-Dee
03-26-2006, 11:34 PM
I have one..

At one of my old work sites one of my Phd holding users kept killing hard drives on her computers (Windows NT). When I asked her to show me her shutdown sequence she smiled and flipped the switch on her surge protector :eek2: She said she has always shut her computer down that way for the last 10 years. She killed 5 HDD's while I worked at the site.

The bad part is we (the IT department) always sent a detailed description of the proper shutdown sequence :confused: :mad:

nowukno
03-27-2006, 12:06 AM
TRUE STORY!!!

I used to be a telephone customer service rep for Dish Network. There was always talk on lunch and breaks about stupid customer call-ins but i never really believed that people were as stupid as some of the stories i heard until one night i got a call............. A guy calls in with a foreign accent (kinda like a pakistani accent) saying how he couldn't get a signal. I looked at his notes in his account from previous call-ins. He had called over 10 times within a week. The last time he called in the rep advised him that his satellite dish was not "plumb" and that it needed to be plumb to get the signal. The rep told him that if that didn't work to call back and we would setup a trouble call where we send a technician out to fix it asap. Anyways he tells me that the dish is now plumb but it's still not working. I asked the man to tell me what process he used to get the dish plumb. There was about a 5 second moment of silence and then he said..... (in a pakistani accent ofcourse) ....... "what do you mean? , i went to the store bought some plump (purple) spray paint and came back to my home and painted the satellite plumb like the man said". I immeditaly said "Im sorry sir , what was that?" and he said (in a screaming mad pakistani accent) "The man said the thing had to be plumb and now it is and it's still not working! I will call Direct TV!" and then he hung up.

I laughed for ever after he hung up , i left the notes in his account and thank god he never got me when he called back (if he did call back).