I am a PC tech so I work off these tickets all day long. I can sympathize with this guy. "George" is just an idiot!

http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/tickets1.htm

Entertaining...wait til MOS sees this

Right up his alley.

Reminds me of my job. I get strange tickets all the time.

I read over 30 pages and started 'Havening' problems :P

I've seen that page before, or one just like it. They all run together after a while! Great share tho! Now people can understand why I post the wierd crap I do. Reality sucks!!

Some technical support stories:

Customer: "Your sound card is defective and I want a new one."
Tech Support: "What seems to be the problem?"
Customer: "The balance is backwards. The left channel is coming out of the
right speaker and the right channel is coming out the left. It'* defective."
Tech Support: "You can solve the problem by moving the left speaker to
the right side of the machine and vice versa."
Customer: (sputter) (click)
Tech Support: (snicker)

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Customer: "I'd like to return this scanner."
Store Clerk: "Excuse me?"
Customer: "This scanner I bought. I paid eighty dollars for this
scanner, and it doesn't work!"
Store Clerk: "Uh . . . sir, that'* a trackball."
Customer: "No, it isn't. It says 600 dpi tracking resolution right here!"
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Got a call from a woman said that her laser printer was having problems:
the bottom half of her printed sheets were coming out blurry. It seemed
strange that the printer was smearing only the bottom half. I walked her
through the basics, then came over and printed out a test sheet. It
printed fine. I asked her to print a sheet, so she sent a job to the
printer. As the paper started coming out, she yanked it out and showed
it to me. I told her to WAIT until the paper came out on its own.
Problem solved.

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I had been doing Tech Support for Hewlett-Packard'* DeskJet division for
about a month when I had a customer call with a problem I just couldn't
solve. She could not print yellow. All the other colors would print
fine, which truly baffled me because the only true colors are cyan,
magenta, and yellow. For instance, green is a combination of cyan and
yellow, but green printed fine. Every color of the rainbow printed fine
except for yellow. I had the customer change ink cartridges. I had the
customer delete and reinstall the drivers. Nothing worked. I asked my
co-workers for help; they offered no new ideas.

After over two hours of troubleshooting, I was about to tell the
customer to send the printer in to us for repair when she asked
quietly, "Should I try printing on a piece of white paper instead of
this yellow construction paper?"

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A man attempting to set up his new printer called the printer'* tech
support number, complaining about the error message: "Can't find the
printer." On the phone, the man said he even held the printer up in
front of the screen, but the computer still couldn't find it!

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Customer: "Hello? I'm trying to dial in. I installed the software okay,
and it dialed fine. I could hear that. Then I could hear the two
computers connecting. But then the sound all stopped, so I picked up the
phone to see if they were still connected, and I got the message, 'No
Carrier,' on my screen. What'* wrong?"

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An unfailingly polite lady called to ask for help with a Windows
installation that had gone terribly wrong.
Customer: "I brought my Windows disks from work to install them on my
home computer." (Training stresses that we are "not the Software
Police," so I let the little act of piracy slide.)
Tech Support: "Umm-hmm. What happened?"
Customer: "As I put each disk in it turns out they weren't initialized."

Tech Support: "Do you remember the message exactly, ma'am?"
Customer:(proudly) "I wrote it down. 'This is not a Macintosh disk.
Would you like to initialize it'?"
Tech Support: "Er, what happened next?"
Customer: "After they were initialized all the disks appeared to be
blank. And now I brought them back to work, and I can't read them in the
A: drive; the PC wants to format them. And this is our only set of
Windows disks for the whole office. Did I do something wrong?"

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For a computer programming class, I sat directly across from someone,
and our computers were facing away from each other. A few minutes into
the class, she got up to leave the room. I reached between our computers
and switched the inputs for the keyboards. She came back and started
typing and immediately got a distressed look on her face.

She called the teacher over and explained that no matter what she typed,
nothing would happen. The teacher tried everything. By this time I was
hiding behind my monitor and quaking red-faced.

I started to type, "Leave me alone!"

They both jumped back, silenced. "What the . . . " the teacher said. I
typed, "I said leave me alone!"

The kid got real upset. "I didn't do anything to it, I swear!" It was
all I could do to keep from laughing out loud. The conversation between
them and HAL 2000 went on for an amazing five minutes.

Me: "Don't touch me!"

Her: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hit your keys that hard."

Me: "Who do you think you are anyway?!" Etc. Finally, I couldn't contain
myself any longer and fell out of my chair laughing.

After they had realized what I had done, they both turned beet red.
Funny, I never got more than a C- in that class.

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I have a friend who just bought a computer and was instructed to load a
program by typing "A:" and then the name of the program. My friend told
me it would not work because his keyboard was no good. He said he
couldn't type the "dot over dot thingie" and that every time he tried to
type the "dot over dot thingie" he kept getting the "dot over comma
thingie" no matter how careful he was to press only on the very top of
the key. When I taught him about the shift key, he thought I was a
genius.

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This guy calls in to complain that he gets an "Access Denied" message
every time he logs in. It turned out he was typing his user name and
password in capital letters.
Tech Support: "OK, let'* try once more, but use lower case letters."
Customer: "Uh, I only have capital letters on my keyboard."

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Email from a friend:
"CanYouFixTheSpaceBarOnMyKeyboard?"

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My friend was on duty in the main lab on a quiet afternoon. He noticed a
young woman sitting in front of one of the workstations with her arms
crossed across her chest and staring at the screen. After about 15
minutes he noticed that she was still in the same position only now she
was impatiently tapping her foot. He asked if she needed help and she
replied, "It'* about time! I pushed the F1 button over twenty minutes
ago!"

Oh, those were funny too. It just goes to prove how knowledgable some people are with computers... or lack there off. I prefer to call it "Job Security". LOL

That is just tooo hilarious!!!

It'* not just a job, it'* an adventure!!!

I got this call in my queue from our illustrious call center operator. You might have to read it with a Southern Accent to get the full impact of this message. (Oh, and this is meant with no disrespect for my friends south of the Mason_Dixon line who say that I talk funny!!!)

"Company XYZ is getting an Air Message!!!