Idiotech

Parents, teachers, bosses, and the general old people population are terrible with technology.

Idiotech
uPick

Never buy a computer from a garage sale...

Up +34 Down

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.

Comments ()