My dad, who has a degree in education and works as a career counselor at a local college, will not properly use bold, italics, or underlining when writing email messages. Instead, he INSISTS on CAPITALIZING certain words for EMPHASIS throughout his WHOLE MESSAGE.
Idiotech
Parents, teachers, bosses, and the general old people population are terrible with technology.
Client Services
a few years back I worked for a three letter company whom offers IT services around the globe. One of our clients was a well known brewery whom used to have us deal with drive permissions and the like. One day I received a call from said client who was having problems accessing a drive. I went through the regular protocol with the client (from easy to increasingly complex). After several steps failed, I asked the client to give me the code located on the sticker close to the keyboard. As I was starting the remote assistant application I explained to the client: "I will take over your PC, please don't play around with the mouse while I am resolving the problem"...When remote assistant asked for permission, he replied yes and I took a shocking look at his screen. The guy had been surfing a gay porn site :O....needless to say I had to mute the call, I was pissing my self, the entire FLOOR came to see why I was dying of laughter. A HUGE SCHLONG LOL After 1 minute or so on mute the client said: "hello, are you still there?", I took mute off for a second and could only say yes. He heard the laughter and said: BOY, you people have fun over there LOL...needless to say I felt bad for the guy, so I composed myself and told the client: "I will be taking control of the screen and keyboard in 5 seconds"....at this point we all watched bent over backwards as the client scrambled to X his browser window LOL Needless to say the guy probably guessed we had seen his NSFW behavior Good times LOL
Cell phone battery vs power grid
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My parents just told my sister that they think the can't use their cellphone if the power goes out.
#1
Well that's one way to do it...
My girlfriend was creating a report and created a different word document for each section. When she realized that she needed to include page numbers, instead of combining them into one document she proceeded to print out 96 pages with only the page numbers on them. Then, insert the pages back into the printer and print each document on top of them.
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"Did you call me?"
I work at a furniture store, and sometimes I'm asked to ride shotgun on one of the delivery trucks. The driver is in his 50's and a bit eccentric. Each truck has a flip-open cell phone to communicate with the store, and this driver is often worried he's missed a call. But instead of looking for the little envelope icon to indicate a missed message, he insists on opening the... Read More »
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Hot Spot
My dad has had an iPhone for quite some time now. No matter how many times that I tell him otherwise, he thinks he can only use safari on it if he turns his personal hotspot on. He also thinks that turning it on will somehow boost his signal. He even has my stepmom log into his hotspot to use the Internet even though she too has an iPhone and hey have a shared data plan.
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Write it down.
So I'm teaching my mom how to use email on her computer. So she's sitting in the desk chair and I'm standing over her shoulder. I say, "Ok, so turn on the computer". She goes, "Hold on." She then stands up, goes to get pencil and paper and proceeds to write down "Turn computer on". I say, "You did not just write that, did you?"
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