FAIL !!!

Just recently saved a girl €300 from the purple shirt place. They wanted to replace the entire screen when all that was faulty was the cable between the screen and the motherboard. €20, problem solved.
 
Many, many years ago now, I was in the large UK PC chain, waiting in a que at the till. At the front was a woman arguing with the sales assistant.

It turned out that she had bought some software on disk, but she had tried to put the disk into the DVD-ROM drive, basically ending up damaging the disk. Her argument was that it was they're fault they sold her the wrong thing!

Myself and the guy infront of me in the que were dumbfounded!
 
My fail was brought on by My surge Protector.

The surge protector did not do what it says on the box :(
 
Skyfall said:
lol, reminds me of the time I worked for Freeserve and some guy was on the phone complaining that the USB cable on the modem wasn't long enough, I was puzzled as you can put the modem anywhere really... So I said to him "you can just put the modem on top of your PC" to which he replied "But then I'd have to sit on the floor to use it"... It turns out he was trying to use the new modem as a mouse.
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ha! i used to work for freeserve back in 2001/2002. pc service call before that.

we got loads of the muppets.

i remember one fella couldnt sign up on the website...he was getting stuck filling the form in when he got to the address. you see it asks froma street name, and apparently he lived on a road, not a street...

i laughed til i cried and had a coughing fit.
 
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Hehe, funny stories, I just have loads of the usual:

Customer: It's not working!!!
Me: Is it turned on?
Customer: Yes it's ****** turned on!!!
Me: Is there a green light on?
Customer: Green light? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

:D
 
Me at the age of 4 typing something out for mum, held down shift to show her how to do capitals without confusing her with the caps lock key, pressed space to see a shocked look from mum "you'll do a capital space!!!"
 
Dutch Guy said:
There was also a website about a repair shop with pics of what people did, had lots of pics about memory being inserted wrong way around and forced in with a hammer, CPU coolers installed with the plastic still on the bottom, no thermal paste and sticks shoved into fans to stop the noise, I lost the link though :(
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I think that is more sad than funny.

Skyfall said:
lol, reminds me of the time I worked for Freeserve and some guy was on the phone complaining that the USB cable on the modem wasn't long enough, I was puzzled as you can put the modem anywhere really... So I said to him "you can just put the modem on top of your PC" to which he replied "But then I'd have to sit on the floor to use it"... It turns out he was trying to use the new modem as a mouse.
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OMG.

malc30 said:
I wish you lot knew him though as it would make it funnier (if poss)
This old Dude is a genius engineering type dude who whittles away in his garage & rebuilt his old British motorbike/Triumph Herald etc etc etc till the beginning of time.

Later on in the convo with his Son he told me that Dad had already had the HD out of the laptop & tried to put the CD in there. :D
It has an external CD drive that was still in the bag. :p:p:p
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Wow.

So my mate has just rang me & asked if I can go round & sort his Dads Wifi out.
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So what did wifi have to do with it??
 
some nublet who brought a box full of pc components ready for a new build took out the motherboard and ripped out the cpu socket holder :confused: he said to me we dont need this plastic thing it will melt :D after i told him that were the cpu sits . mb ruined . best thing was he was being paid to make pc this is what worries me :D
 
Was trying to help a lady uninstall and reinstall her sound card drivers.

Me: "Click on the start button"
Her: "I can't find it"
Me: "It's on the bottom left of your screen"
Her: "I don't have any buttons on the bottom left but there is a power button on the bottom right"
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
Just recently saved a girl €300 from the purple shirt place. They wanted to replace the entire screen when all that was faulty was the cable between the screen and the motherboard. €20, problem solved.
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I've seen this happen all to often, customers parting with hard earned cash for such a small job. It's awful working there :(.
 
my dad was trying to explain how to use the basics of windows to my nan. He was telling her to hover over the X in the top right of the window and left click the mouse to shut the window.

she was adament that she was following the instruction correctly but nothing was happening.

It turns out that she was clicking the left mouse button...but she had the mouse the wrong way round!
 
I have two, from when I working back in Zimbabwe.

First one was my mate worked at a PC repair shop, I used to go over at lunch time to chill. This day I came over and he was absolutely fuming, raging at everything. I asked what was up, and he said he was trying to get his UPS to work, but no matter what he did it just would not power up! I took a look and pointed out he had plugged it into itself :D

Second was when I was working for a friend of the owner of the aforementioned PC repair shop. He was basicly a compulsive liar, and claimed to know everything about computers. One day we were in the work room stripping down an old machine to try figure out why it wasn't working. Had the thing all connected, but outside of the case (You know what I mean). He then proceeds to pick up the motherboard, with his hand underneath it, and tells me to turn the computer on :O :O :O, I asked him if he was sure, as I am pretty certain that it was going to shock him? He says yes, just shut up and turn the damned thing on, I have done this many times....... *BZZZZRRRRPPP...TU.bzzzz.RN.....IT..Bbzzzzrrrr....OFFFFFFFFFFFFFF*.

Never laughed so much in my entire life.
 
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My grandfather-in-law rang me up a few months ago and said "Help!, I've deleted Google".

Turned up at his house and he'd simply changed the home page. It made me chuckle.
 
worked for an ISP doing their webhosting and ADSL sales

this guy rings me up and says he needs some webhosting for his site
says he didnt write it so could I take a look at the URL to work out which package he needs, used to do this all the time, see if people needed PHP etc so was not a problem

he reads out the URL to me - something along the lines of www.IF**KMYWIFE.co.uk

I type the letters slowley into my address bar trying not to sound like im smiling down the phone at him

The splash screen loads, its a picture of his wife with her legs spread wide
She is not hot at all

most uncomfortable conversion ive ever had on the phone
 
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