FailDesk

I want these

Scott — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:32:35 +0000

I drink a lot of coffee and these would make my life complete.

Mouse Balls

FieldGeek — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:00:10 +0000

I’m a secretary who does a lot of IT work for the old folks in the church I work for. This is mostly just basic questions from the occassional person, like how to create labels or change something in a document, but I have two people who are constantly asking for help. One is a fellow secretary who works for a different church, whom I get calls from almost daily. She’s in her 60′s and how she manages to log in to the computer is beyond me. My favorite call from her went like this:

Her: “Do you have any extra mouse balls?”

Me: (After spitting my coffee at the screen) “What?!”

Her: “Mouse balls! My mouse needs new balls!”

Me: “Your computer mouse?”

Her: “Yes. I though maybe you would have some extra balls sitting around.”

Me: “What’s wrong?”

Her: “The ball won’t move.”

Me: “Pop the cover off the bottom, remove the ball and spray it out with canned air.”

Her: “So I don’t need to go buy new balls?”

Me: “No. They don’t sell them. Look into a laser mouse. They don’t have balls.”

I giggled all day after that one.

The second lady drives me insane to the nth degree. She pushed me off my computer to check her email, only for me to find out that she thought she could get to her documents on her Mac at home via Yahoo Mail. It took me 10 minutes to explain to her why she couldn’t do that.

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Good for Mahjong…

FieldGeek — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:00:58 +0000

A while back, my Grandad(RIP) called me with the following conversation:

GRANDAD: “Would you like a laptop?”

ME: “…Yes?”

GD: “It’s a little old, but you can play Mahjong on it…”

ME: (Thinking I could run it as a server) “Okay…”

GD: “Great! I’ll bring it round for you”

What he brought round was this:

Along with its original reciept from 1980-something!!!

No one knows you like Google knows you.

Rob — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:00:03 +0000

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I hate cheap users

Scott — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:00:33 +0000

This is the result of a company being cheap. Using multiple vendors to work on their “system” has left them with a rats nest. Needless to say they were having connection issues that day. Gave them a quote to cleanup and examine the issue. Never heard back.

I know it could look a lot worse but this is the kind of crap I hate to deal with. They expected a cheap and fast fix. Turns out someone plugged in a residential wireless router so they could surf the net on the sales floor. I found an extension cord coming out of a ceiling tile leading up to the router. I told them to unplug it and like magic the network came back to life. Two DHCP servers on one network, tisk tisk.

These seem like legitimate requests

Scott — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:00:23 +0000

Don’t you agree? I always know what users most important files are.

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I’m pretty sure I’ve had this exact conversation with my mom.

Scott — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:26:04 +0000

Click on start. Start. It’s on the bottom left corner. On your monitor. Start. Click it. Go to Control Panel. Control Panel. It’s in the Start menu. The Start menu. It’s what popped up when you hit Start. No, don’t hit start again. Ok, hit Start again. Did the Start menu pop up? Then click Start. Now go to Control Panel. Control Panel. Click on it. Click on Control Panel. The Start menu disappeared? Click on Start. Ok, I’ll be over.

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Don’t worry, it’s almost done.

Scott — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:00:09 +0000

Yep, almost done.

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Virus = Very Yes.

Rob — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:00:10 +0000

One of my all-time favorite “scare me” screens:

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Where do I hire a hacker?

Scott — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:00:33 +0000

Not Yahoo answers, not Yahoo answers.

via: [Yahoo Answers]