Overheard on a helpdesk after a tech gets off the phone with a user...

"My job would be so much easier it it weren't for the users....."



On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Roger Wright <rhw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can hear it coming:
>
> "My users are so stupid!"
>
>          "How stupid are they?"
>
>
>
> Roger Wright
> ___
>
> Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos:
> what you do today might burn your butt tomorrow.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Lee Douglas <lee.doug...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can top that. Boss's wife has a net book she regularly moves around the
>> house. Calls me one day with no sound, so I remote into the machine and it's
>> not muted. Since I can't see the machine, I couldn't tell that she had
>> plugged a spare charger into the speaker port on the netbook. Good thing she
>> didn't have the power plug for the charger plugged into the wall, I suppose.
>> Sigh.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:02 PM, John Aldrich <
>> jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Nahh...no big deal. I just thought it was kinda funny how it was
>>> something
>>> that easy. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 2:37 PM
>>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>>> Subject: Re: Stupid User Tricks
>>>
>>> That's crazy!  Can't stand those guys...
>>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM, John Aldrich <
>>> jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> Got a call from a user across town who was having trouble with sounds on
>>> his
>>> PC, so I knew there was an extra set of speakers at his building and told
>>> him to try those. 10 minutes later, he calls me back saying those don’t
>>> work
>>> either, so I log into his computer using VNC so I can see what he’s
>>> seeing
>>> and check his sound config… turns out he’d clicked on “mute all”. Duh! No
>>> wonder his sound wasn’t working. :D
>>>
>>>
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