Tech Stories

1. repeating??? not a tech story but... This happened at my place the other day, a couple of my roommates we talking and I overheard them.. Roommate 1 = R1; room mate 2 = R2. R1: What does repetitive mean? R2: repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive. R1: That doesn't help me, you are just repeating yourself! I broke out laughing right there.... [By: Grifter] Comment on Story Comments Fishie... -Warrick Okay, is the person asking a high school grad? Because there's really no excuse to not know what the word repetitive means. -RiffRaff Okay, is the person asking a high school grad? Because there's really no excuse to not know what the word repetitive means. -RiffRaff (Ain't I a devil???) <g> -RiffRaff You can say that again, Riff! -Tekkie The was repetative and redundant. -LaserGuru I rather thought it was excessively superfluous myself... -AceOfShades Someone's /. sig: They repetitively repeated themselves over and over again repeatedly without end. -smellystudent Maybe he should repeat high school. -Hellion Recursion: see recursion. -EmleyMoor I wish idiots like that would exhibit some evanescence myself... -Clavenater

2. If you know you are a pain in the a$$... This lady calls in starts complaining from the get go, asks where I am, starts complaining about outsourcing and how she hates getting people from places that can't speak english (I'm from Canada). She says she can understand me perfectly but other companies are horrible, and goes off about them for 10+ min. She asks me how many callers I get who are like her, I tell her very few. Her response: "That's good, if I had to talk to people like me all day, I would quit within a month." Then after I get the problem fixed, she had the homepage set for the windows DNS error. She wants a credit for the service not working. I tell her no, the service was not out, she had the incorrect homepage. Complains for another few minutes, then hangs up. Nice that you know you are a bitch and then just keep on neeping at me... [By: Grifter] Comment on Story Comments She needs medication. Sign her up for Viagra,OxyContin,Valium,etc. over the net. -billybien Gags r us would have been a nice place to set her homepage to :> -RTFM Y'know, I think I just found the next start page for my Laptop... -GargoyleTS must be something in the air on the West Coast of N.A. ... I had a user neep at me about TWOS because the tv was set on 2 for dig box for 3 weeks, and she only now decided to call. -Zentar Set her homepage to http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -maciarc

3. The address, login, what?! EU: I'm having slow page windows. Me: You mean slow browsing? EU: ummmm, Yes. Me: What OS? EU: ummm, Internet ME (of course...) Me: OK, can you open IE? EU: OK. Me: Go to the address bar EU: You want me to login? (this is cable, there is no login) Me: described the IE windows, manage to get the cust to find where it says address, ask if he sees the white field where he can type. EU: The red circle? the envelope? Me: No, the white bar, you were just at it. EU: Yes. Me: so you are at the white bar where it says address? EU: what? Do you want me to open the logon bar? <repeat twice more> he says OK and then says so I clicked on the status. *line disconnect* Honestly, the went to static and then dropped off. Whatever caused it, I owe a couple beer... I still can't believe how a customer can have his mouse right over the right place and then click on something from a different program!!! [By: Grifter] Comment on Story Comments "I still can't believe how a customer can have his mouse right over the right place and then click on something from a different program!!!" Give it time, you will lose all sense of caring soon. Then it will be better. -burrkiss Install apathy 1.0 and it won't get better. In fact, it will probably get worse. You just won't care. Alternately, you can install masochism 3.0 and actually derive pleasure from it all. If you choose, you may also install sadism 2.0. It is compatable with both apathy 1.0 and masochism 3.0. -scooby111 Inatall BOFH 0.9 (beta) & you'll have a LOT more fun... -lineswine I hear sadism 2.0 and BOFH(0.9 beta) make for some interesting system cofigurations. -neuman1812 BUT the best program is SuckDialTone 1.0 -burrkiss

Customer Misconceptions

2. EU: I just switched from AOL I don't know how to do anything. [2003-10-23]