OOOOOOooooo i know loads, but i can't rember them all now. Heres one:-
My ex-ICT teacher once told me that a lady came to him telling him that he work kept dissapearing from her floppy disk each time she backed it up. He then asked her for her back up disks, where she produced a pile of papers where the disk had been photocopied onto.
Back in the days of the 5.25 inch disks I had a joke program that you primed so that when the operator next touched the keyboard, you got a message along the lines of "Warning: Water detected in drive A, Starting Spin dryer cycle". The floppy disk drive sould then start up and sound like a washing machine in spin mode.
Most amusing of all was the response I got after revealing the joke, "It that the error message you WOULD get if there WAS water in it?"
One user on a beginners PC course put the mouse to the screen to point to an icon.
Another time a user was told over the phone to go right out and come back in again and asked to try it again. After that did not work it transpired that the user had gone out of the building and come back in again. I can just imagine them saying "but it's cold out, don't ask me to do that again".
Can't remember fully what happened, but at tech support i heard a conversation between another student and tech support, about how they had tried everything to get Windows Media player to work, and it tured out they was using a Mac... tch macs... Something along those lines
Had one where I was called down by some irate executive shouting down the phone that someone had been in his office and stolen his mouse. Grabbed a spare, ran down to find him bellowing at his staff demanding to know who had had the temerity to go into his office and taking things. Tiptoed past him mumbling something along the lines that IO would have him sorted in no time, only for him to follow me in ranting and raving about how you cannot trust anyone these days. He fell silent pretty quickly when I moved his daily paper, that he had put on his desk when he had got in, and found his mouse underneath it.
Originally posted by Beyond1964: Had one where I was called down by some irate executive shouting down the phone that someone had been in his office and stolen his mouse. Grabbed a spare, ran down to find him bellowing at his staff demanding to know who had had the temerity to go into his office and taking things. Tiptoed past him mumbling something along the lines that IO would have him sorted in no time, only for him to follow me in ranting and raving about how you cannot trust anyone these days. He fell silent pretty quickly when I moved his daily paper, that he had put on his desk when he had got in, and found his mouse underneath it.
Our IT manager Dean told me that one of our sales agents in Ireland phoned in asking what to do with a three and a half inch floppy disk he had been sent containing a driver or some such. The disk must have been posted in some kind or cardboard sleeve or envelope, because Dean explained to the agent he'd have to remove the sleeve from the disk and insert it into the floppy drive. Some strange rustling took place and then the agent still complained that the floppy disk wouldn't fit in the drive. It turned out that when asked to remove the packaging, the agent had duly writhed the plastic casing off the disk, leaving only the magnetic film, which he had then attempted to stuff into the slot.
Classic IT joke:- worker:- i have a problem with my computer tech Support:- Oh, ok, dues it run under windows worker:- Oh, now, but Tim is under a window, and his computer is just fine, i am currently next to the door you see
Sorry for the rubbish telling of the joke, it is extreamly old.
How about this: My job is roughly similar to the tape machine. Having called a techie because the user insisted his machine was plugged in, I got an irate call back from said techie - "Next time ask the user to check the other end of the power lead is inserted in the back of the cpu!"
Does anyone remeber when MSN.co.uk changed it look and feel, well i had a tutor who spent most of the day trying to get back "his old internet" lol, took me ages to explain it had been updated
