Stupid Customers

December 12, 2006

I worked as a technician for a company that sold computers. One time a woman was having trouble turning on her computer. I stopped by her house and quickly discovered the problem. She had gotten into the habit of turning the computer on by first pressing the power switch on the computer, then the power switch on the monitor. But somehow, they had gotten out of sync, so when the computer was on, the monitor was off, or vice versa. So no matter how many times she flipped both switches, the computer just wouldn’t seem to work.

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Stupid Customers

November 12, 2006

I am the tech consultant for a computer repair company, but we also sell computers. Once, I had a teen walk in and say he wanted a gaming PC. I asked what kind of games he wanted to play.

Him: “Maybe I could get an Apple II to play Halo — that’s going to be about $20, right?”

I laughed and said that an Apple II wasn’t going to cut it and that a PC that Halo could run on would run about $600. It wasn’t what he wanted to hear.

Him: “Ok, how about a 50 megabyte hard drive, to make my other computer run faster?”

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Stupid Tech Support

November 8, 2006

I worked as a technician for a company that sold computers. One time a woman was having trouble turning on her computer. I stopped by her house and quickly discovered the problem. She had gotten into the habit of turning the computer on by first pressing the power switch on the computer, then the power switch on the monitor. But somehow, they had gotten out of sync, so when the computer was on, the monitor was off, or vice versa. So no matter how many times she flipped both switches, the computer just wouldn’t seem to work.

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Stupid Salespeople

July 18, 2006

I collect old computers as a hobby, mostly 20 year old microcomputers — Apple II, Commodore, etc. Once, in an attempt to find one, I called a computer surplus store.

Me: “Hi. Do you have any old computers, maybe 10-20 years old?”

Salesperson: “Sir, there were no computers 20 years ago.”

Me: “Umm, ok. Bye.”

Then I cracked up.

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