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OK it appears I'm wrong....*sighs*

*sighs* I stand corrected. PC users are f***nuts. (Except me!) :D I just had someone here at work shove a floppy disk in her drive backwards. Went over to her desk. The disk is smashed into the drive. Had some rather important financial records on it. Did my best to recov the disk but its trashed. *bangs head on keyboard*
LEARN...*bang*.....THAT....*bang*...THINGS....*bang*...ON.....*bang*......A.....*bang*...COMPUTER...
...*bang*....AREN'T INTENDED TO BE FORCED!!!

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I see stupid people everywhere *breaths out* and they don't know they are stupid.

PS- The drive is toast. I'm thinking about going to the office manager and telling him that this needs to come out of her paycheck.
 
Re: OK it appears I'm wrong....*sighs*

Originally posted by SiliconAddict
...I just had someone here at work shove a floppy disk in her drive backwards....

HAhahahaha .. when I worked tech support for an ISP back in the states, our software came on 3 floppies (way back in the day. This was Netscape Navigator Gold or something.) A user had managed to fit 2 floppy disks into the drive at once before failing to put the third one in, even after using considerable force. Apparently they didn't know you had to take the disk out first before putting another one in.

You'd think that's common sense; you can't fit 6 records on a record player, can you?
 
Re: Re: OK it appears I'm wrong....*sighs*

Originally posted by 5300cs
HAhahahaha .. when I worked tech support for an ISP back in the states, our software came on 3 floppies (way back in the day. This was Netscape Navigator Gold or something.) A user had managed to fit 2 floppy disks into the drive at once before failing to put the third one in, even after using considerable force. Apparently they didn't know you had to take the disk out first before putting another one in.

You'd think that's common sense; you can't fit 6 records on a record player, can you?

WHA?!?!? What were they thinking?! A floppy drive jukebox?!?!? :D
 
Re: OK it appears I'm wrong....*sighs*

Originally posted by SiliconAddict
I just had someone here at work shove a floppy disk in her drive backwards.
hah! that's nothin'. I've had people with 10 CD's in CD-ROMS that don't exist..confussed yet? They thought the gap between the blanking plates on the front of their PC was a slot loading CD-ROM, they put one CD in...nothin, so they put another in, and another, and another...until finally they log a call to say they have tried loads of CD's in their drive (not even wondering where they have been going) and none of them will work. Classic!
 
Re: Re: Re: OK it appears I'm wrong....*sighs*

Originally posted by SiliconAddict
WHA?!?!? What were they thinking?! ...
They weren't, obviously. I've heard so many stories of stupid people using computers. All of them being pc people. For example the woman who got an Illegal Operation error and wanted to know if she had to call the police, people using the CD tray as a drink holder, etc, etc. :rolleyes: I'd love to hear some Mac related ones...
 
Stupid user stories

Worst I have seen out of Mac users is someone who needed help with the Mac they were using in a computer lab because the cursor wasn't responding when they moved the mouse. They were using the mouse attached to the computer next to them instead of their own. The person was of course embarrassed when I politely pointed this out.

Another time in a lab of PCs running Windows a user was getting all kinds of crashes and general instability. They had placed a large backpack in front of the fan venting heat out of the computer cabinet. Duh. I was not happy but fortunately no permanent damage was done.
 
Re: Re: OK it appears I'm wrong....*sighs*

Originally posted by edesignuk
...They thought the gap between the blanking plates on the front of their PC was a slot loading CD-ROM, they put one CD in...nothin, so they put another in, and another, and another...

I heard about a guy doing that with his credit card. A website said enter your cc info so he took out his card and stuck it in the slot between the floppy & CD drive... :rolleyes:
 
Ooh! I just remember another one:

(me on a tech support call w/a customer)

me: Please put in your password, sir. Make sure it's all lowercase.
customer: But my keyboard has only uppercase letters on it !!!



Me: Do you have any windows open? If so, could you close them please?

The customer put the phone down, got up and closed a window in the room they were in.
 
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