I walked into the office this morning, knowing there wouldn’t be much to do… so i sit at my desk, and start “stumbling”. (stumble upon is a toolbar for firefox that allows you to just “stumble” upon random pages at the click of a button.) After a few pointless stumbles, I came a cross a site with some tech support issues. Here is one:
- Customer: “My machine won’t do anything.”
- Tech Support: “What’s on the screen right now?”
- Customer: “It’s frozen, it’s showing my Windows desktop.”
- Tech Support: “Try hitting Ctrl-Alt-Delete, tell me what happens.”
- Customer: (taptaptap) “Nothing.”
- Tech Support: “Did you hit all of them at once?”
- Customer: “Umm…just a second.” (taptaptap) “I did that time. Nothing happened.”
- Tech Support: “Try it again.”
- Customer: (taptaptap) “No, it’s just sitting there.”
- Tech Support: “Move the mouse around. What happens?”
- Customer: “Nothing, the arrow doesn’t move.”
- Tech Support: “Ok, last try, hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete again.”
- Customer: “Still nothing.”
- Tech Support: “Hit your numlock key. Does the light flash?”
- Customer: “No.”
- Tech Support: “Ok, you’re going to have to shut your computer off. Just press the power button, wait for a couple of seconds, and turn it on again.”
- Customer: “I’ve heard that’s bad for Windows.”
- Tech Support: “Um, well, you can’t do anything else, right?”
- Customer: “No.”
- Tech Support: “Well, you can’t hurt it any worse then.”
- Customer: “But I’ve heard it’s bad for Windows to just shut it off without shutting down first.”
- Tech Support: “Yes, but it’s locked up. There’s nothing else you can do.”
- Customer: “Will it hurt my Windows?”
- Tech Support: “Probably no worse than it already was by locking up.”
- Customer: “Well…ok…but if it doesn’t work, will you come over and fix it for me?”
You can view the rest of these here -> http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_os.shtml
Have a wonderful day and God Bless!
