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.
Never buy a computer from a garage sale...
So I work at a computer store, thus I get an average of 2-3 idiotech worthy stories a day. However today I had a truly idiotech moment with a customer. He walks in carrying his entire desktop case, with a few cables dangling behind him. He sets it down on the counter and asks if we could take a look inside since something was making a "loud clicking noise". I open up the case... To find that someone had custom built it (or a very bad company made it, though there was no logo to speak of) and that they didn't know what screws were as all of the 4 fans that were in the case were GLUED with something that must have been pretty strong to hold the fans on, except one had fallen off and was just barely hitting a piece of metal on the bottom of the case. The reason for this, I notice, is that none of the fans are the right sizes for the case (example: 200mm fan in a 120mm space, none of the holes matched up). I ask the man if he doesn't mind me replacing the fans and he says go ahead. As I'm carefully trying to remove the fans that aren't stuck... I notice that a few cables aren't attached to where they should be, and some are jammed into places they shouldn't be. I ask the man if he's managed to get it working yet, to my surprise he says "No, I just turned it on, heard the rattling and brought it here." I fix everything, charge him, and he leaves cursing loudly about some garage sale. I would put this in work sucks... But it's better than the house calls I have to make for people who didn't plug in their computers.
My parents just told my sister that they think the can't use their cellphone if the power goes out.
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.
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 »
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.
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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