The following is a large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users.
Wow, I think we have shared some customers.

Tech Support: "Put the disks in the drive."
Customer: "What's a drive?"
Tech Support: "The slot in your machine that looks just the right size for the disk."
Customer: "Which machine?"
Tech Support: "Do you have a hard drive?"
Customer: "I have two boxes. One has a picture on it."
Tech Support: "Put the first disk in, metal side first."
Customer: "Ok. It's gone in."
Tech Support: "Go to the 'start' button, then run, then type 'setup'."
Customer: "My computer isn't on. How do I turn it on?"
Tech Support: "Push the button by the drive to eject the disk, and press the button that says 'power' on the machine without the pictures on it."
Customer: "Ok. Done."
Tech Support: "Now put in the disk, go to start, run, and type 'setup'."
Customer: "Oh, it's all working now. Thanks, but your software isn't very easy to use, is it?"

http://rinkworks.com/stupid/ Warning: some annoying pop-ups.

Yes. I have heard very similiar stuff in prank calls.
I'll send a prank call we done in year 2000 Rotifer.

LOL.

:D

he he funny $hit :stickout

Great link. Thanks!:D

Good site, I found this a long time ago and ended up sitting there reading ALL of them without even getting up once :) I should go check for updates since my last visit.

Edit: Damn, not updated since March 18th? :( I already read those.

LMAO !!:laugh:

Excuse me but i think there transcripts from phone wind-ups.
None are exactly the same as any prank call i know of but they do have very similiar things like "an internet" which was invented by Rab Corbett and a few others in year 2000 in Hunterhill, Paisley and the call was to an ISP.

A summer job of mine was being the tech support gopher for a medium sized real estate company...

About 25 computers and some decently smart people thank God..

Well my big contribution was in the accounting department I set up dedicated box to run a backup job to run about 2 hours after closing time to backup some important data overnight...
Finished the project on Friday and went home for the weekend. Came back on Monday and had a perfect backup, so I was elated..
Tuesday came around and the computer that did the back-ups was off when I came in. Asked around to see if anyone had turned it off and no one had... Thought for a while and after about 3 hours I realized one of the jobs of the maid staff was to turn off all the lights in the building. I asked my boss to talk to the maid who cleaned our office because I knew she was a friend of his family (how she got the job)...

Next day I come in and the freakin computer was off again!... So I asked him to talk to her again and I found out that she was a little slow, so I brushed it off and tried to figure out another solution...
I opened up the case and just took out the power switch from the front of the computer. If you can't turn it off she wouldn't right?

Wednesday rolls around, and low and behold it was off again. This time she just pulled the power cord out of the wall.... At this point I was livid but, I didn't want to bother my boss with this for the 3rd day in a row... So I sat down and thought about it for a while. Then it struck me... I opened the case again and cut the lines leading to the LED's on the front of the box. Why? Her job is to clean and make sure ALL the lights are off in the office. Why the backup worked the first time, she doesn't work on Fridays :).

Thursday, bingo! Perfect backup...


A few months later after I had gone back to school I got a call from my boss saying that the back-ups on the computer weren't correct. Thank God they didn't need them at that time, they were just checking them. Well the guy they hired full-time to replace me found my computer w/out front LED's and a power switch. So he went and got some nice bright blue LED's for the case and a new switch. He was baffled at why the computer would shut off in the middle of backing up...

I had a good laugh trying to explain this to the new guy over the phone....

Studio64 : lol i feel sorry for the lady, heh but dang why did'nt you put it hidden in somthing out of sight you know?

Originally posted by zdwebhosting
Studio64 : lol i feel sorry for the lady, heh but dang why did'nt you put it hidden in somthing out of sight you know?

It was under my desk.... I assume she's do her final walkthrough and see a little green light coming from under the desk and goto turn it off....

ah then i can understand that heh boy that would have gotten on my nerves :)

I know the feeling... I volunteered as an admin at a school I use to go to, and the janitor turned off both our servers. I was a little angry about that one, since the servers were setup to allow remote users to login, and to autoload software/files on workstations... arghhh. Luckily, it only happened once.

I have some nice ones too... my aunt who is a teacher reficed to listen to me when I explained about the tab-key in word. It was jumping too big leaps for her so she used the blankspace-key instead.