From our friends at Clients from Hell: Designing a poster advertising a Mexican restaurant’s new meal deal: Client: That looks good; but I don’t feel like it looks spicy enough. Me: In what way do you want it to be spicier? Client: I want more herbs and stuff on top of the chicken. Me: Okay, I’ll need a few [...]
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This morning, I walk into the office to a ticket labeled “Broken Laptop”. Clicking it open, it’s from a manager that is well known in the IT Department here for being technologically illiterate. And even more so, most of the folks he manages are as bad, if not worse than he is. The ticket text [...]
I learned to curtail and for the most part eliminate these calls from friends and family by doing this: First time they ask for help it’s free, but I bring them through what is required from them. Generally, they dismiss it off hand thinking I’ll just be there whenever they have a virtual hang-nail. After [...]
Originally submitted to Reddit with the caption of “My favorite XP feature” I always liked trying to paint with Windows XP “lag”screens too… – Rob via: [Reddit\TechSupportGore]
Saw this on a server the other day. I somehow have 1.1TB of free space on a 129GB hard disk partition. Not only does the free space not make sense, I’m not even sure how much data is actually on that disk already. The disk’s properties weren’t very helpful:
I had a user submit a ticket stating that her computer had broken. This particular lady is known to be a problem user. I went down to her classroom to better assess the situation. She explained that her monitor’s power was on but it was not displaying anything. Upon inspection I saw that the power [...]
I was just unzipping a file when this message appeared. Think I need to switch back to Zip from 7Zip if they can cramp aproximately 6PB data into a 2+GB file. (Note: Used 7Zip to unzip afterwards and that worked perfectly, 12GB unzipped)
Shame on you for taking a picture with a Palm Zire (or at least that what it looks like, judging by the image quality) – I still do not know how ANYONE can find anything on a Windows desktop like that. via: [Reddit\TechSupportGore]
I work as a network technician for the US Army. Sometimes, we have some interesting conversations with users when they want to argue with us about troubleshooting. This was a conversation between one of my co-workers and one of our more… Special users…. LT- “Chief, there’s a BIG system issue that won’t allow people to [...]