ID10T Of The Day -- 12.21

[Scotty Bear]

I work with second and third line support in a bank in Norway. We have about 600 users, but we have one that I actively try to avoid.
The first time she called and said her monitor didn't work. I got up there, and it looked fine. I tried to explain that there was probably something wrong with the software, but she insisted it was the monitor, so I changed it just to make her shut up. The next day she called and said it happened again. The new monitor, she said, didn't work either. I went up to see. The monitor was fine; she had just exited Windows somehow and was at the MS-DOS prompt. Before I could explain this to her, she said:


Her: "Maybe it's the keyboard that's broken? Or the mouse? Or the printer? It could be the printer, right?"
Me: "No." A few weeks later I had to check how much memory the computers on that floor had.


Her: "What are you doing?"
Me: "I'm checking how much memory these computers have."
Her: "Oh. That's like the strength of the monitor, right?"
Me: "No."

[Jack of the midwest]

Was she wearing an aluminum foil hat at the time? :D

[Scotty Bear]

I hope not but then again knowing these people, you never know.....

[Hermanus]

I should not judge, but that lady does seem to be an id10t.

[Virginia Gentleman]

Her: "Maybe it's the keyboard that's broken? Or the mouse? Or the printer? It could be the printer, right?"
Me: "No."A few weeks later I had to check how much memory the computers on that floor had.

Her: "What are you doing?"
Me: "I'm checking how much memory these computers have."
Her: "Oh. That's like the strength of the monitor, right?"
Me: "No."

That's just funny. Too, too funny...

[Crow]

Yeah, when the person is not even willing to listen or to try and learn anything, that is when i draw my line at not judging others as an idiot.

I should not judge, but that lady does seem to be an id10t.

[Adam82]

Wow...just wow...

[Jimakins]

Maybe you should send her outside with that aluminum hat on and have her sit in a aluminum chair when its raining and thundering out and tell her to watch the fire works.

[skyefyre]

Scotty Bear, I think at the end of that last conversation, I would have just said, "yep, that's it!" and walked away.



I work with second and third line support in a bank in Norway. We have about 600 users, but we have one that I actively try to avoid.
The first time she called and said her monitor didn't work. I got up there, and it looked fine. I tried to explain that there was probably something wrong with the software, but she insisted it was the monitor, so I changed it just to make her shut up. The next day she called and said it happened again. The new monitor, she said, didn't work either. I went up to see. The monitor was fine; she had just exited Windows somehow and was at the MS-DOS prompt. Before I could explain this to her, she said:


Her: "Maybe it's the keyboard that's broken? Or the mouse? Or the printer? It could be the printer, right?"
Me: "No."A few weeks later I had to check how much memory the computers on that floor had.


Her: "What are you doing?"
Me: "I'm checking how much memory these computers have."
Her: "Oh. That's like the strength of the monitor, right?"
Me: "No."