Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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oh godits not even funny
I work in for an isp and these are some of the gems i have had from the oldies (or at least the over 30s)
my wireless router wont work!
have a look at the front, what colour is the wlan light
light ? there are no lights!!
well where is the router then?
it is still in the box you sent me. its wireless so i wont need to plug it in obviously.
my email wont work
ok, do you get any kind of error messages?
no there is nothing on the screen
ok, is it just email that is broken or is your Internet connection down too?
what do you mean?
well can you go onto google and search for something for me?
no
why not?
well I'm not technical so i don't know how to do anything apart from email
ok well go to the blue "e" on your desktop
no, i cant
why?
well the screen is black and the lights are still off from this power cut.
my Internet connection is down
have you tried re-booting your router?
no i cant possibly do that you are not listning to me.
is there someone else i could speak to who is more technical
no just send someone down and get it fixed now.
he ended up complaining to every manager i had an eventually paid someone £300 to turn his router off and on again.
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chuff monkey I AM him, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 18:14,
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