Silly Clients

Terminal_Boy said:
Do your clients come back to see you a couple of months later when $RELATIVE (or) $MATE has utterly failed to produce anything useful?
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haha, utterly failed to produce anything useful, but still "most of the work has been done" and it just needs "finishing off".
(it needs completely rewritten).

Not something i have to deal with often, thankfully :)
 
Lysander said:
Looks like a PICNIC problem.
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It's a good few years since I've heard that term! Thought it was just my IT dept that came up with that.

The Dread Pirate said:
Apply LART
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I have heard of LART as well but not from my dept. I came across it on a web site called Tech Support Comedy.

HecFam said:
Bloke bought a laptop today with a copy of Office 2013 Home and student. Then complained to me that he didn't have outlook.
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To be fair, I thought that Outlook was included in Office Student & Teachers. We supplied multiple year versions at work, and Student & Teachers usually had Outlook. It was mainly Publisher and Access that got missed out.
 
Work as an IT tech in a secondary school. Get a call from a teacher saying her pc is not working. I got down there, pc is on, monitor is not. Turn monitor on, leave is dismay.
 
I don't know if this is true or not but there was talk of someone who phoned my work saying that his neighbours internet was slow and was there anything we could do to improve it as he was connecting to it and wanted faster access. Upon asking him if he could put the neighbour on to do DPA he admitted his neighbour didn't know and hung up!
 
Id laugh but I see this kinda thing at least once or twice a day.

Me: Can I take your login ID?

Them: Don't know

Me: You know, the username you use with your password to login

Them: Ermmmmmm

Me: Are you logged in on your desktop?

Them: Yes

Me: So whats the login ID you use, before you put your password in

Them: oh that!

If I had a quid for every time that happened, I would be on an extra tenner a week easily.
 
To be honest though, probably one of the funniest ones I have heard didn't come to me.

Agent: How can I help

Client: Well, I have been given my password to login to your system, and when I am putting the password in all I am seeing is stars and not what I am typing.

Agent: *hits mute button and dies laughing*
 
Oh lawd, I've had this fool give out my email address for years now, he even forwards stuff to it titled "to me". He's been giving it to his family too, so I have been getting emails from them for years now and they all seem to struggle with the concept of "your family member that shares the same name as myself is giving my email address out to you constantly because he doesn't know his own".

It was funny for the first few months, but years later it's just annoying.
 
I'll raise my hand in the air and happily admit I am king tard when it comes to being inept at IT, but there is nothing more frustrating than an IT problem that stops you doing your job. IT people at work, I am eternally grateful for your help!

Even using word and excel can be a pig if you haven't had decent training on it. Fortunately I've got onto good terms with a document specialist so she can format my documents for me :o :p
 
One of the classics we had was... Guy phones up complaining of issues with his internet connection, we send someone out only to find that the guy put all the cabling up himself and nailed it all to the wall THROUGH the cables lol. As in literally hammered nails through the cable to attach it to the wall! Haha!
 
Nitefly said:
I'll raise my hand in the air and happily admit I am king tard when it comes to being inept at IT, but there is nothing more frustrating than an IT problem that stops you doing your job. IT people at work, I am eternally grateful for your help!

Even using word and excel can be a pig if you haven't had decent training on it. Fortunately I've got onto good terms with a document specialist so she can format my documents for me :o :p
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WTH, how old are you, shouldn't you be retired yet?
 
When I was an apprentice at a college, I would have a few lecturers that would come in every morning in a panic because the projector 'wasn't working'. Every time, it was unplugged from the cleaners the night before. I was so sick of my morning tea and checking emails being interrupted that I started berating them and and making them look stupid in front of the students, yet they still couldn't learn to plug something in. These people were educated teachers being paid 30k+.
 
phil675 said:
When I was an apprentice at a college, I would have a few lecturers that would come in every morning in a panic because the projector 'wasn't working'. Every time, it was unplugged from the cleaners the night before. I was so sick of my morning tea and checking emails being interrupted that I started berating them and and making them look stupid in front of the students, yet they still couldn't learn to plug something in. These people were educated teachers being paid 30k+.
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Bet it made you feel like a big man berating the non-technically minded teaching staff, can't have your tea being interrupted by providing IT support, which sounds like it was your actual job and all :rolleyes:
 
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