Users, man i swear.

[docmanjimmer]

This dude just came by and asked what does, "check signal cable" message means on his monitor..... sigh, saving the world one monitor at a time. someone here wanna cry with me?

 

[Eli]

 

[aircooled]

Don't feel too bad. I have a user that thinks when he turns his monitor off he is turning the entire computer off. I asked him to reboot and he just turned his monitor off and back on again.

 

[docmanjimmer]

LMFAO aircooled

 

[docmanjimmer]

dubba dubba

there was this one user who thought the fan belt in his computer went out.... dont know if he was kidding or was just a low-watt bulb, but we put his ticket on the wall o shame. oooooh getting close to the century mark on posts here..... YAY me. w00t

 

[PatboyX]

one of the guys at my job ripped his video cable out of the machine. i asked him what happened he said "we had trouble with that." we?!??!
"we" apparently dont know how to unscrew things!

eh, well, it keeps me working so im glad there are people who dont know what the hell they are doing. besides, im sure there are people who look at me the same way i look at these guys. as Father Kurt put it, no matter how good you are at something, someone will eventually come along who can tear you a new asshole.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Don't feel too bad. I have a user that thinks when he turns his monitor off he is turning the entire computer off. I asked him to reboot and he just turned his monitor off and back on again.

lol

Koing

 

[rh71]

I betcha they know more than you do about something else ...

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Don't feel too bad. I have a user that thinks when he turns his monitor off he is turning the entire computer off. I asked him to reboot and he just turned his monitor off and back on again.

You are lucky... you only have one of those.

At least, the way you phrased it you onjly have one

 

[Renob]

as Father Kurt put it, no matter how good you are at something, someone will eventually come along who can tear you a new asshole

Word.

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: rh71
I betcha they know more than you do about something else ...

Yeah, but they do a good job of faking it and making asses of themselves, then.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: rh71
I betcha they know more than you do about something else ...

I cannot disagree with that, since many users where I work know infinitely more than me about how to fsck up a computer in 10 minutes.

 

[TMPadmin]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: rh71
I betcha they know more than you do about something else ...

I cannot disagree with that, since many users where I work know infinitely more than me about how to fsck up a computer in 10 minutes.

I agree with Mookow, there is NOBODY in this building that knows as much about networking and computers and such as I do. But, I don't know the first thing about how to make a drawing on the software that is installed on every computer here (except mine).

 

[dpm]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Don't feel too bad. I have a user that thinks when he turns his monitor off he is turning the entire computer off. I asked him to reboot and he just turned his monitor off and back on again.

Thats a classic! How did he not notice the big humming box on the floor though?

 

[Zenmervolt]

I work in a campus computing lab. I'm just a peon, far from any real expert in computers. And compared to most of the users, I might as well be Albert friggin' Einstein. Some experiences:

User: I saved my document at home and now it's not showing up on the disk.
/me runs the disk through our station with Disk Dr. Disk has all kinds of errors but is repaired.
/me hands disk back to user for them to try again.
User: I still can't see it.
Me: Did you save it in one of the folders on the disk?
User: Oh yeah! I save it to "My Documents".
Me: Blank stare
Me: You mean the "My Documents" folder on your computer at home? The one on the desktop?
User: Yeah, but now I can't find it on my disk.
Me: Uh, the "My Documents" folder is on your hard drive at home, it's not on your disk...
User: But I had the disk in the drive, it doesn't automatically go there?
Me: No.
------------------------
(necessary info: Computers in our labs save to the C:\temp directory by default)
User2: I saved a document but now I can't find it.
/me looks through C:\temp and "My Documents", finds nothing.
Me: Where'd you save it?
User2: I saved it in "My Documents", I'm sure of it.
Me: Hmm, that is strange. Do you still have the document open or can you bring up the website you downloaded it from?
User 2: I don't remember where I had to go to get it. I saved it last week.
Me: Uh, the computer deletes everything you put on the hard drive when you log out. Otherwise all the space on the computers would be used up in less than a week.
User2: WHAT?!
Me: *shakes head* Sorry. *walks away*

 

[Schadenfroh]

if there is any justice in the world, they will all die, wait, it would be much easier for me to die because for every 1 tech there is 100 users

 

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
I work in a campus computing lab. I'm just a peon, far from any real expert in computers. And compared to most of the users, I might as well be Albert friggin' Einstein. Some experiences:

(necessary info: Computers in our labs save to the C:\temp directory by default)
User2: I saved a document but now I can't find it.
/me looks through C:\temp and "My Documents", finds nothing.
Me: Where'd you save it?
User2: I saved it in "My Documents", I'm sure of it.
Me: Hmm, that is strange. Do you still have the document open or can you bring up the website you downloaded it from?
User 2: I don't remember where I had to go to get it. I saved it last week.
Me: Uh, the computer deletes everything you put on the hard drive when you log out. Otherwise all the space on the computers would be used up in less than a week.
User2: WHAT?!
Me: *shakes head* Sorry. *walks away*

I get this one a LOT at my computing site.

 

[Sketcher]

Mundane, but you know how it goes...

*************

User: I can?t log into my computer this morning.

Me: Have you changed passwords recently?

User: Yes, and CAPS Lock is not on.

Me: My log shows either your username and/or password is not correct and that multiple attempts were transacted with incorrect information. I?ll reset your password and you?ll be prompted to create a new password the next time you log in.

User: OK, it works now but what could cause this problem?

Me: You repeatedly entered in incorrect information so the system locks you out to make sure you don?t gain unauthorized access.

User: Well, someone else must have been trying to get into my computer then because I didn?t do anything wrong!

Me: Relax, forgetting or typing in your password wrong happens to everyone. No big deal I reset it and you?re good to go.

User: I didn?t do anything wrong, I didn?t forget my password! I didn?t type the password in wrong. Someone else must have been trying to access my computer!

Me: The security system shows only you and one other person having entered the building at the time your network login failed.

User: That must be who tried getting into my computer then! I?m going to call HR and have them look into it, who was it!? I?m going to get to the bottom of this!

Me: Me.

User: You!?

Me: Yes, I was the only other person in the building at that time.

User: What were you doing using my computer!?

Me: Sigh?.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Just got reminded of another easy way to piss me off at work. We have a fairly small table on which we put all the printouts. It never fails that someone will stand and block access to half the table while they sort through every last page of a 50 sheet printout and re-arrange the pages about 16 times. Meanwhile I'm learning moves that could be considered yoga as I try to file the printouts on the table because the printers just aren't stopping.

ZV

 

[DaviDaVinci]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Don't feel too bad. I have a user that thinks when he turns his monitor off he is turning the entire computer off. I asked him to reboot and he just turned his monitor off and back on again.

kidding aside, that's LITERALLY my former gf.

me, "babe, is your computer on?"

her, "yes, the light is orange"

me "orange? where is the light orange?"

her "on the computer, and i don't see anything"

me "the monitor or the actual pc?, you know that black box"

her "let me check"

That's about when I hung up and just drove to her place and you know the rest....

Oh yah, same gf that was plugging the phone cable into the ethernet jack on the wall. Her roomie couldn't figure out why the phone wasn't working after they moved the furniture around....

It's the worst trying to trouble shoot over the phone when the other end doesn't know the difference between a monitor and the actual computer. I'm surprised the suicidal rates aren't as high as they ought to be in the IT tech support world.

 

[gistech1978]

ive posted this one before
but none the less
a woman at work complained her internet wasnt working at home.
so i run over there, turned out she had a usb cable plugged into her NIC. they sort of fit...USB is about as wide as a RJ45...i did not know that.
i guess matching shapes is too hard for a 45 yr old woman.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Sketcher
Mundane, but you know how it goes...

*************

User: I can?t log into my computer this morning.

Me: Have you changed passwords recently?

User: Yes, and CAPS Lock is not on.

Me: My log shows either your username and/or password is not correct and that multiple attempts were transacted with incorrect information. I?ll reset your password and you?ll be prompted to create a new password the next time you log in.

User: OK, it works now but what could cause this problem?

Me: You repeatedly entered in incorrect information so the system locks you out to make sure you don?t gain unauthorized access.

User: Well, someone else must have been trying to get into my computer then because I didn?t do anything wrong!

Me: Relax, forgetting or typing in your password wrong happens to everyone. No big deal I reset it and you?re good to go.

User: I didn?t do anything wrong, I didn?t forget my password! I didn?t type the password in wrong. Someone else must have been trying to access my computer!

Me: The security system shows only you and one other person having entered the building at the time your network login failed.

User: That must be who tried getting into my computer then! I?m going to call HR and have them look into it, who was it!? I?m going to get to the bottom of this!

Me: Me.

User: You!?

Me: Yes, I was the only other person in the building at that time.

User: What were you doing using my computer!?

Me: Sigh?.

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!

Oh man...stop it!!!

BWA HA HA HA HA H A AH AHHAH

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: Sketcher
Mundane, but you know how it goes...

*************

User: I can?t log into my computer this morning.

Me: Have you changed passwords recently?

User: Yes, and CAPS Lock is not on.

Me: My log shows either your username and/or password is not correct and that multiple attempts were transacted with incorrect information. I?ll reset your password and you?ll be prompted to create a new password the next time you log in.

User: OK, it works now but what could cause this problem?

Me: You repeatedly entered in incorrect information so the system locks you out to make sure you don?t gain unauthorized access.

User: Well, someone else must have been trying to get into my computer then because I didn?t do anything wrong!

Me: Relax, forgetting or typing in your password wrong happens to everyone. No big deal I reset it and you?re good to go.

User: I didn?t do anything wrong, I didn?t forget my password! I didn?t type the password in wrong. Someone else must have been trying to access my computer!

Me: The security system shows only you and one other person having entered the building at the time your network login failed.

User: That must be who tried getting into my computer then! I?m going to call HR and have them look into it, who was it!? I?m going to get to the bottom of this!

Me: Me.

User: You!?

Me: Yes, I was the only other person in the building at that time.

User: What were you doing using my computer!?

Me: Sigh?.

Kinda makes you wanna get out a baseball bat doesn't it?

 

[Serp86]

after i lent a game to my friend;

me - did you try it?

him - you gave me a bunch of sh**. It wouldn't even run!

me - what happened?

him - well, i just inserted the cd into the drive, and a friggin window saying some bull**** about installing appeared! What is installing, anyway?

 

[Jgtdragon]

This thread is so funny, but also so true.