lol customers

titchard · 1 Dec 2008 at 03:54

Killa_ken said:
You couldn't even comprehend how well it works

Where from the UK are (were?) you from? Don't think it worked so well for me when I was there - Crewe / Northern accent doesn't cut it in New York! They don't seem to get the British sarcasm / deprecating humour either.

Rich

Killa_ken · 1 Dec 2008 at 03:58

titchard said:
Where from the UK are (were?) you from? Don't think it worked so well for me when I was there - Crewe / Northern accent doesn't cut it in New York! They don't seem to get the British sarcasm / deprecating humour either.

Rich

I have a posh boy accent so I think thats what they like, I moved from Chelmsford.

And yes, when I first moved and would crack sarcasm jokes they'd think i was rude/offensive

titchard · 1 Dec 2008 at 04:00

Killa_ken said:
I have a posh boy accent so I think thats what they like, I moved from Chelmsford.

And yes, when I first moved and would crack sarcasm jokes they'd think i was rude/offensive

Ah Chelmsford, near Essex? My GF is from Laindon Hills in Essex - she sounds Australian!

Rich

tisonlyme · 1 Dec 2008 at 08:14

titchard said:
Ah Chelmsford, near Essex? My GF is from Laindon Hills in Essex - she sounds Australian!

Rich

Don't mean to be picky or anything but Chelmsford is in Essex, not near it. And it'll be either Langdon Hills or just Laindon, no such place as Laindon Hills

titchard · 1 Dec 2008 at 08:22

tisonlyme said:
Don't mean to be picky or anything but Chelmsford is in Essex, not near it. And it'll be either Langdon Hills or just Laindon, no such place as Laindon Hills

Posted at 0400, shattered after being called in for a nightshift an hour before it started - little slack please?

howthe · 1 Dec 2008 at 08:31

It is just a shame I can't post some of the rubbish that I have to deal with on late weekend nights when all the drunks log on to our chat servers!

However, I will post a text message convo I had with a lad I know.

Him:That 512mb ram u put in mine is it shared, Coz this tower I have now is slow and have a feelin its got shared ram in it so was going to swope the ram over[sic]

I explain what shared ram means and say that adding more ram would help but the best option is to add a new gfx card. What you should know is the ram I put in was an old 1ghz Athlon based PC, 5 years ago! His new 'rig' cost him £50 :O

Him:its got a graphics card. That tower u built me has that got shared memory or not mate.

Me: No is has not.

It actually had a gig of ram and what was a £300 gfx card when it was built.

Him: Wots that got then ddr

I really couldn't be bothered to answer him, as this will just go around and around and around. He seems to think that shared ram is a special ram and by 'swoping' it for non shared ram it would make a difference!

peige · 1 Dec 2008 at 09:43

My father is super paranoid about securaty on his PC, always thinking that somebody can get into it since a few years back he swears somebody else was controlling his mouse until he "yanked" the modem cable out of the wall..

Anyway, he is always having small issues with his home pc so I installed the logmein client on it but he entered a secret password he hasn't told me and wrote it in his book ( this will stop me hacking in and looking at his pc) He comes round to me and asks me to log in, I move away so he can type in his secret password, he tells me its the one i've set and then gets the strop when I tell him he set it and I don't know it... and he still doesn't believe me.

Gilly · 1 Dec 2008 at 09:53

/\ndy said:
whilst waiting for my food, i once overheard a chav at burger king say "can i have a bacon double cheeseburger, but without the bacon please?"

why not just ask for a double cheeseburger?

idiot lol

Double cheeseburgers have ketchup, mustard and gherkin on. Bacon doubles have only bacon.

Ukadder · 1 Dec 2008 at 10:07

My MD asked me

"If our building was on fire and a customer looked at us on Google Maps, would they see the smoke?"

Jez · 1 Dec 2008 at 10:25

I love how a lot of the stories are clearly written by people in lets say, low end employment, yet they have the audacity to look down on other people :rolleyes:

matty114 · 1 Dec 2008 at 10:27

Ukadder said:
My MD asked me

"If our building was on fire and a customer looked at us on Google Maps, would they see the smoke?"

titchard said:
Posted at 0400, shattered after being called in for a nightshift an hour before it started - little slack please?

lol

Conscript · 1 Dec 2008 at 10:54

Jez said:
I love how a lot of the stories are clearly written by people in lets say, low end employment, yet they have the audacity to look down on other people

Almost as audacious as looking down on people in "low end employment" just because they are posting experiences of other people's momentary stupidity...

SoliD · 1 Dec 2008 at 11:13

Might not be funny for you guys as it is for me, but I work for one of the National Gas Networks, who look after all the pipeworks in the road and make sure it gets to your house safely, and get to speak to numerous angry customers late at night, and always love when at the end of the conversation they usually finish with "I will be changing my suppliers tomorrow morning."

Always think to myself good for you but we will still be the ones looking after the pipes or turning your meter back on.

Jez · 1 Dec 2008 at 11:39

Conscript said:
Almost as audacious as looking down on people in "low end employment" just because they are posting experiences of other people's momentary stupidity...

No, not really. Some of the examples are not even worth laughing at, so someone doesnt have a clue about computers? Thats what the helpdesk is for, and i find it amusing that someone in that position feels that they are in a position to take the mickey.

Conscript · 1 Dec 2008 at 11:45

Oh, I see. I took your post to mean the retail examples.

As for helpdesk, is that really "low end employment"? Because I was under the impression that answering phones was only a small aprt of IT support.

Jez · 1 Dec 2008 at 11:51

Conscript said:
Oh, I see. I took your post to mean the retail examples.

As for helpdesk, is that really "low end employment"? Because I was under the impression that answering phones was only a small aprt of IT support.

I wont pick out specific posts, i just found some of them to be a little out of order given their situations.

Helium_Junkie · 1 Dec 2008 at 11:54

Jez said:
I love how a lot of the stories are clearly written by people in lets say, low end employment, yet they have the audacity to look down on other people

oh the ironing.

tisonlyme · 1 Dec 2008 at 12:04

I can understand you saying that with reference to the grandparents not knowing what a space bar is etc. But the stupid people I talk to each day work on computers for a living and have done for years. There's a guy who calls us up on a daily basis with the most ridiculous questions, like how to plug a monitor in, and yet he loves to tell people he has a million and one degrees, letters after his name etc. I may be a lowly IT Support peasant, but sometimes you have to laugh at peoples stupidity!

Jez · 1 Dec 2008 at 12:07

Helium_Junkie said:
oh the ironing.

I can only assume that you do not know what irony actually is? There is no irony there.

Colbaker · 1 Dec 2008 at 12:10

We once played a prank on a youngster doing work experience in our computer workshop.

We attached a couple of extension leads from a MAC to a MAC keyboard and decided that one of us would press the "eject" button on it to eject the cd drive when we shouted "OPEN DRIVE" at the MAC (making sure the presser was hidden on the other side of the workbench), We made the poor kid believe that it was voice activated, he then proceeded in trying this out and was very impressed, I think i went a little far when i told him all you needed to do was "will" the drive bay open and proceeded in showing him how and explained that it reads your thought waves, He then had a few goes and all that day he was so in aww of the new mac (it was one of those all in 1 macs built into a CRT) that he was asking his parents to buy him one for his coming birthday.

We never owned up to this and he was only with us for a couple of weeks, I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he received his brand new MAC and had to send it back because the drive bay voice and thought wave control didn't work.

Some people trust you so much that they would just about believe anything, I feel sorry for him now as we were all like that at one stage in our lives.