Geek Pet Hates.

At my work place we have a lot of Indian programmers. Whenever they have an issue with their machines the contact me and all say the same thing "My CPU is not working"

One day I couldnt understand what one of the programmers was saying so I asked him 'Is that'C' for Charlie?' to which he replies 'NO!*short pause* 'C' for 'Citrix'
 
  • People who store ALL of their documents on their desktops! You have a My Documents folder... USE IT!

  • People who want to copy files and copy each file individually instead of using CTRL+A or SHIFT+Click or CTRL+Click

  • People who think that because i work in IT i know EVERYTHING and can fix every single issue in a touch of a button.

  • People who raise an issue (we have a issue tracking system called JIRA) regarding something minor like 'My computer is slow' and raise it as a CRITICAL (Serious issue; company losing money etc.)

  • People who phone me and tell me that an error message appeared but they have closed the window so they can't tell me what it said.

  • When i ask people to take a screenshot of the error and attach it to the issue, they copy the image and paste it into Word!
The other day a lady who needs to work from home told me that she can't connect using her home connection. I found out that TalkTalk block the port that our VPN client uses so she is unable to use it, so i told her this and she just looked at me and said "Well, what are you going to do about it, can't you fix it?" :rolleyes: / :mad:
 
LeJosh said:
Numerous family members - "What are you studying?"

Me - "Computing..."

Numerous family member - "ohh so I'll call you if something happens to my pc"

I've had so many say that to me, I'm dreading the day! Every single person has said it word for word to me. :\
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You know in films when some scientist says I'm a doctor, then when asked to inspect a bunion quickly adds "oh no I'm not that kind of doctor".

Do that, your a computer scientist, you only know about lofty academic topics - mention quantum strings and neural networks, that should do it.
 
People who think they understand computers but don't, but because they're louder than me I can't get a word in.

My Dad's like this. He gets angry when I try to tell him something he's doing is wrong, he asks for my help then proceeds to do what the hell he likes while justifying that what he's doing is correct.

I generally have to sit there, wait for him to **** it up then ask 'can I show you now?' in order to avoid pulling aggro.

Don't ask for my help if you're going to tell me I'm wrong!??! I get this at work too. I honestly couldn't care how right you think you are, or how well you understand computers, I just want to fix the problem and get back to what I'm doing. :rolleyes:
 
Drizmod said:
One day I couldnt understand what one of the programmers was saying so I asked him 'Is that'C' for Charlie?' to which he replies 'NO!*short pause* 'C' for 'Citrix'
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I remember speaking to a French guy on the Xbox support line as I needed a license key as I accidentally deleted Hexic HD, which is a game that comes bundled with the console.

The Xbox just wouldn't take the code, so I got him to spell it phonetically:

'A as in Alpha, X as in X-Ray, G as in Juliet'.

Ah, there's the problem ;)
 
Many things posted here annoy me to no end, most annoying for me though is watching people use the computers at work and not use keyboard shortcuts.

Particularly CTRL + ALT + DEL then clicking "Lock Workstation" instead of Windows + L
 
People who mistype something as you're watching, then feel the need to say the resulting non-word out loud with a guffaw, as if they've inadvertently stumbled upon the secret of comedy.

Here's a hint, you people: you have not rescued the situation.
 
My pet hate is ppl who send a document to the printer again and again and again thinking if they send it one more time it might print it. Did they ever think its out of paper or swithced off or the cable has come loose or something else????
 
1. People who use google to type in URLs

2. People who confuse URLs with IP Addresses (The classic here is about discussion of the recent move by Microsoft - one of my colleagues is adamant that he won't have his "URL" blocked...)

3. When people print 1000000000 documents to the printer, discover it's out of paper and then just leave them stacked in the print queue for someone else (generally me!) to load it with paper and then discover the queue (although the printer job cancel button is useful, here)
 
The 'PC Pro' crowd of computer users/enthusisasts:
Where they read a few things in mags, on a website, on a forum, or have built lots of PCs, and instantly think they know anything about everything with PCs.
When in actual fact they've simply got by on a miniscule amount of knowledge, convinced themselves and their family that they are god, and their 'top tips' are literally just opinion based upon incomplete knowledge.
I see it all over the show. From the users i deal with day in day out, to aquaintances, to, unfortunatelly, some people on here.
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BoomAM said:
The 'PC Pro' crowd of computer users/enthusisasts:
Where they read a few things in mags, on a website, on a forum, or have built lots of PCs, and instantly think they know anything about everything with PCs.
When in actual fact they've simply got by on a miniscule amount of knowledge, convinced themselves and their family that they are god, and their 'top tips' are literally just opinion based upon incomplete knowledge.
I see it all over the show. From the users i deal with day in day out, to aquaintances, to, unfortunatelly, some people on here.
:mad:
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You have just summed up 90% of the users who use this forum in one post.
 
people who think if they get a bigger harddrive it makes their pc faster.

or ohhhh ill get more memory fo rmy laptop that means i can play crysis.

People not shift clicking to select multiple files, or ctrl+a all they do is move one file at a time grrrrrrrrrrrrrr kill kill

In line with things that annoy you geek wise, people in so called tech jobs who dont know what they are doing.

Perfect example

 
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