For all us technical assistant persons out there

[Bozos of Bones]

Yeah, me too. A friend of mine asked me the other day if he can zip a fulllenght DivX movie to a floppy diskette. [img]smile.gif[/img] And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Illumina Drathiran'ar]

You should have said, "Yes" and looked all serious about it, and just *watched*

[Bungleau]

Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar: Yes, it's an urban legend... but it's still funny. Stupid people (read: relatives) often call me with technical problems. The FIRST questions I ask are: "Is it plugged in?" "Is the monitor connected to the computer?" "Is it turned on?" And the sad thing is, sometimes this works. I actually fixed a "broken" printer over the phone with this.

I used to work with a guy that when you called him, his first three questions were:

"Is it plugged in?"

"Is it turned on?"

"Is the hold screen on?"


Didn't matter who was calling -- end user, president of the company, his boss... same three questions.

I think he said it covered about a third of the calls he got. Go figure.