EDIT: This seems to happen sometimes...especially in the comments section in the games.. Whenever I hit "Enter" to leave some lines of space, when I submit my post, it will delete all the empty lines and push all the lines together. Sometimes this happens, but other times it doesn't.
According to the author of these pages, most of these examples are true stories....
Seriously though, some of these are ridiculous.
Computer Stupidities: Main Page
This was listed under "Hardware Abuse".
"One day a customer called complaining that he just received his
computer, but it won't turn on. When he first pushed the power button,
the screen flashed and then everything died.
I couldn't do much over the phone, so I went to the customer's office.
It was plugged in, everything was hooked up ok, but, sure enough, it
refused to turn on. I decided to take it back and promised to deliver a
new one as soon as possible. But when I went to pick it up, I couldn't.
Fearful of thieves, the man had fired some 24 inch bolts straight through
the box, through the hard drive, motherboard, everything, locking it to
his desk.
"Oh," he said, "I thought it was just the TV part that was important.
Will my warranty cover this?"
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Listed under Paranoia:
"A customer called saying he was getting an error in Windows 95. He told me
what the error was, and I recognized this as a typical error that occurs after
installing MS Office 97.
Tech Support: "Sir, did you just install Office 97?"
Customer: "YOU'RE IN MY COMPUTER, AREN'T YOU?????" (click)"
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Customer: "Well, I just want to know
if I load this disk into my computer, won't other people be able to get
into my computer and access everything I have in there?"
Tech Support: "No, that's not possible."
Customer: "You see it on the TV all the time."
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Customer: "Email! I won't have anything to
do with that Internet or modems of any sort! You should be careful
about those. Don't you know that once you install a modem, the
government can look into your computer and watch everything you do?
That's why every night before I go to bed, I turn the monitor to the
wall."
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Under Viruses: (one of my favorites)
"A guy came into my office, in a real panic. He kept saying something
about how his computer screen was shaking violently, and he thought it had
a virus! Going down to the computer, I found that the picture on the
screen was indeed shaking a lot, but I also noticed something else...a
desk fan was placed right next to the monitor, which was plugged into the
same power strip. I switched the fan off, and the picture stopped
shaking. I told him to move the fan away from the monitor in future,
to avoid that problem.
Later on I heard him telling a colleague that his desk fan had a virus,
and he had to keep it away from the screen to stop it from
infecting his computer."
DarkAchilles — 10 Months ago
towcheez2000 — 10 Months ago
Oh, I thought you wrote all that, I guess I was a little stupid myslf there;)
DarkAchilles — 10 Months ago
I just read this one.
Stupid Tech Support
I called up tech support because Internet Explorer insisted on opening everything I was trying to download with Quicktime.
Customer: "Internet Explorer insists on opening everything I try to download with Quicktime."
Tech Support: "Ok."
Customer: "So whenever I click on anything that I want to download it tries to open it with Quicktime."
Tech Support: "Are you sure that its not a Quicktime file?"
Customer: "No it's an exe file."
Tech Support: "So it's not a Quicktime file?"
Customer: "No, and I can't right click either, to do a Save Target As."
Tech Support: "Oh, but you're sure it's not a Quicktime file, right?"
Customer: "Yes, it is an executable file, DOT E X E, not DOT M O V."
Tech Support: "Is it a .exe that can be opened in Quicktime?"
Stupid Tech Support
I called up tech support because Internet Explorer insisted on opening everything I was trying to download with Quicktime.
Customer: "Internet Explorer insists on opening everything I try to download with Quicktime."
Tech Support: "Ok."
Customer: "So whenever I click on anything that I want to download it tries to open it with Quicktime."
Tech Support: "Are you sure that its not a Quicktime file?"
Customer: "No it's an exe file."
Tech Support: "So it's not a Quicktime file?"
Customer: "No, and I can't right click either, to do a Save Target As."
Tech Support: "Oh, but you're sure it's not a Quicktime file, right?"
Customer: "Yes, it is an executable file, DOT E X E, not DOT M O V."
Tech Support: "Is it a .exe that can be opened in Quicktime?"
keithpeck — 8 Months ago
Iv got one heh. My grandmother stepped away from her computer and didn't return to it for several hours until after she had phoned me, fearing what she had done because she had performed an an 'Illegal' Operation.
DarkAchilles — 8 Months ago
lol..some people just lose their common sense as soon as they sit in front of a computer
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