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    My job would suck, if it werent for idiots

    Over the weekend, Idiot co-worker #1 lets his wife and her equally stupid cousin go the flea market unescorted. They are approached by two guys with a pushcart loaded with computer boxes. The guys give them a song and dance about how these are the latest and greatest computers, 2ghz processors, really big hard drives..yadda yadda..


    Guy #1 plugs in the cpu, and hits the power switch. Power indicator lights. He then repeats the process with the Monitor.

    The two guys then proceed to tell their marks that they will let these computers go for the great price of $250.00 each. So both the wife and clueless cousin buy one, but the cousin doesn't want to be taken for a ride so she insists on getting the Demo model because she's seen it power on.

    So cut to this morning, Idiot co-worker asks me if I can take a look at his new computer, because he can't seem to make it work. I pull it out of the box and go to start hooking it up and realize that there are no connectors on the back of the machine.. just the little metal covers over the holes where the serial port, keyboard port, etc poke through the case. I start chuckling to myself because i know where this is going already.. I dutifully open the case only to discover the case is packed full of magazines, newspapers, and a rock. No motherboard, no hard drives, no video, nothing.. just paper and a rock.

    My laughter is now uncontrollable as I explain to him why Idiots shouldn't shop for computers.

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    ROFL

    Now maybe I should try that!

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    Lol I bet the next idiot move is to sit at the flea market till that guy shows up again (which will never happen).

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    Poor guy

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    double post

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    Poor guy nothing.. The guy is a major nitwit, and his wife is even dumber.. A couple months ago, idiot co-worker was going to buy a DVD burner from some guy on a street corner.. He put 60 bucks up front and the guy told him to wait in front of this building while he went in to get the burner.. 2 hours later nimrod figures out that the guy isn't coming back with the burner.


    I swear someone needs to put some poison in the gene pool.. too many idiots are breeding.

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    I work for a ISP in Au, the other day i was speaking to one of the tech support staff, he said someone rang up saying he can't connect to the net, so they asked him all the general questions in the end he was in safe mode, they asked him why, he said so no one can hack him. haha

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    Sounds like ->

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    Oh man, is THAT what safe mode does?? And I spent all this money on firewalls....

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    I was in support in the early 80's, and I had the following telephone exchange with someone (I swear!):

    Me: "Ok, now we will finish the reinstallation by putting in disk three.."

    Client: "Uh, ok, but I'm not sure I can do that."

    Me: "Why is that, what seems to be the problem?"

    Client: "Well I followed everything you said earlier, and waited until the disk stopped spinning and the green light went off, but I can't see how I could fit another floppy in the slot as its quite full with the first two!"

    True tales of ACCPAC V1.0 support circa 1983 if memory serves me right.
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    Did they at least get a power supply?
    Patrick Schrader

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    If you can call it a power supply.. little 90watt job.. enough to turn on the led on the front of the case, but not much more than that.

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    LOL, well is it a good case?
    Im almost 100% sure those people will try again. I would bust there ***.
    Patrick Schrader

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    Hey, at LEAST HOMER bought one that worked.
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    LOL I'll have to use that one on idiot co-worker.



    The case is so-so, i was thinking of offering him $30 for it.. I could use a case to build a little dinky play system for my wee little cousin.

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    "he said so no one can hack him" Makes sense to me, safe like all windows
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