I love stupid user stories! : )
e feeling infinitely superior (for the moment!) -----Original Message----- From: Fleischer, Beth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:55 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Dumb people oooh, now thats stupid. My stupidest customer doesnt' come close. Internal customer, been using windows for at least a month or two. His mapped drive has dropped or something, he calls and I try and walk him through fixing it on the phone. Me: Ok, double click on My Computer Him: HUH? Me: Clint, just double click on My Computer. Him: WHAT? Me: OPEN UP MY COMPUTER!!! Him: How can i open up YOUR COMPUTER if you are on the THIRD floor and I am down here in the lobby??? > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Childress [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Dumb people > > During a 6 month stint doing ISP Tech Support right after college, I got a > call from a woman who was frustrated trying to install a new modem. She'd > never been able to log on even once to our modembank. After trying to > explain that she needed to contact the modem vendor for support and going > round in circles with her inexplicable lack of knowledge about ANYTHING, I > finally started trying to help her. After some time trying to get her to > even tell me what OS she was on, I finally determined that she was > attempting to connect to us using a modem and her television. No, not > WebTV, an external modem and a cable ready television. > > And then there was the time the owner of the ISP got all excited about > being > able to offer 56K dialup services and went out and bought about 20 - 56K > modems for us to add to our modembank for users to dial into. Duh, yeah > that will work - NOT. After explaining that 56K didn't work that way, he > still insisted in setting one up and trying it. That's when I knew the > ISP > was doomed. They are now out of business. > > -Cameron > > -------------------- > Cameron Childress > elliptIQ Inc. > p.770.460.1035.232 > f.770.460.0963 > -- > http://www.neighborware.com > America's Leading Community Network Software > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 4:04 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Dumb people > > > > > > We have quicktime downloads on our site. Last year, someone > > emailed me and > > said that he could not hear the audio from the quicktime clips. After > > about two days of emailing back and forth, it turned out he did > > not have a > > sound card... > > > > Or, the person who thought our site was not safe to submit a credit card > > number, so he emailed me the number instead... > > > > Jacob > > > > At 03:51 PM 11/21/2001 -0500, you wrote: > > >Random stupidness for today...from a dial up customer. > > > > > >Me: Ozona Ozline > > >Caller: Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...Ummmmmmmmmmm.....<starts > > blabbering > > >about some problem> > > >Me: OK, See the Ozline Icon? > > >Caller: Yeah > > >Me: Ok, Right click once on it. > > >Caller: I dont know which one is the right one, the top or the > > >bottom.................. > > >Me: Please Hold. > > >Me: OMFG! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! > > >Me: <unholding> Ok sir, reboot your computer and call me back if > > it doesn't > > >work, ok? > > > > > >He never called back. Probably forgot the phone number... > > > > > >jon > > > > > > > > >. > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
