Un-techie people
It's hard to believe certain people survive to adulthood!
I saw a lady at work today putting a credit card into her floppydrive
and pulling it out very quickly. I inquired as to what she was doing and
she said she was shopping on the Internet, and they asked for a credit card
number, so she was using the ATM "thingy."
I worked with an individual who plugged their power strip back into itself
and for the life of them could not understand why their computer would
not turn on.
1st Person: "Do you know anything about this fax-machine?"
2nd Person: "A little. What's wrong?"
1st Person: "Well, I sent a fax, and the recipient called back to say all
she received was a cover-sheet and a blank page. I tried it again and the
same thing happened."
2nd Person: "How did you load the sheet?"
1st Person: "It's a pretty sensitive memo, and I didn't want anyone else
to read it by accident, so I folded it so only the recipient would open it
and read it."
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.
"Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have replaced
the battery in this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. "Do
you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery
for this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?" I asked. No, just
this remote 'thingy,'" she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As
I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you
drive over there and check about the batteries...it's a long walk."
Tech Support: "What does the screen say now."
Person: "It says, 'Hit ENTER when ready.'"
Tech Support: "Well?"
Person: "How do I know when it's ready?"
Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was
typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing
paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him.
With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it
on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.
I was in a car dealership a while ago when a large new motor home was towed
into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and
the whole thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister." I asked the
manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had set the cruise
control, then went in back to make a sandwich.
And, one addition from a friend: She's been doing temp work at various offices.
At one place she became the resident expert on the photocopy machine. One
day there was a big backup. She went over to help and found that no
one knew how to stop the copier from "punching" three holes down the side
of each copy. She opened the paper tray, removed the three-hole paper and
solved the problem.
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