A woman called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer. The tech asked her if she was “running it under Windows.” The woman then responded, “No, my desk is next to the door. But that is a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his is working fine.”<\/p>\n
Tech Support:<\/strong> “OK Bob, let’s press the control and escape keys at the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter ‘P’ to bring up the Program Manager.” Overheard in a computer shop: I once received a fax with a note on the bottom to fax the document back to the sender when I was finished with it, because he needed to keep it.<\/p>\n Customer<\/strong>: “Can you copy the Internet for me on this diskette?”<\/p>\n I work for a local ISP. Frequently we receive phone calls that go something like this: Some people pay for their online services with checks made payable to “The Internet.”<\/p>\n Customer<\/strong>: “So that’ll get me connected to the Internet, right?” Tech Support<\/strong>: “All right…now double-click on the File Manager icon.” Customer<\/strong>: “My computer crashed!” Why we should feel sorry for tech support people …… A woman called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer. The tech asked her if she was “running it under Windows.” The woman then responded, “No, my desk is next to the door. But that is a good point. The man sitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCustomer:<\/strong> “I don’t have a ‘P’.”
\nTech Support<\/strong>: “On your keyboard, Bob.”
\nCustomer<\/strong>: “What do you mean?”
\n<\/strong>Tech Support<\/strong>: “‘P’ on your keyboard, Bob.”
\nCustomer<\/strong>: “I’m not going to do that!”<\/p>\n
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\nCustomer<\/strong>: “I’d like a mouse mat, please.”
\nSalesperson<\/strong>: “Certainly sir, we’ve got a large variety.”
\nCustomer<\/strong>: “But will they be compatible with my computer?”<\/p>\n
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\nCustomer<\/strong>: “Hi. Is this the Internet?”<\/p>\n
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\nTech Support<\/strong>: “Yeah.”
\nCustomer<\/strong>: “And that’s the latest version of the Internet, right?”
\nTech Support<\/strong>: “Uhh…uh…uh…yeah.”<\/p>\n
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\nCustomer<\/strong>: “That’s why I hate this Windows, because of the icons. I’m a Protestant, and I don’t believe in icons.”
\nTech Support<\/strong>: “Well, that’s just an industry term sir. I don’t believe it was meant to…”
\nCustomer<\/strong>: “I don’t care about any ‘Industry Terms’. I don’t believe in icons.”
\nTech Support<\/strong>: “Well, why don’t you click on the ‘little picture’ of a file cabinet…is ‘little picture’ OK?”
\nCustomer<\/strong>: [click]<\/p>\n
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\nTech Support<\/strong>: “It crashed?”
\nCustomer<\/strong>: “Yeah, it won’t let me play my game.”
\nTech Support<\/strong>: “All right, hit Control-Alt-Delete to reboot.”
\nCustomer<\/strong>: “No, it didn’t crash, it crashed.”
\nTech Support<\/strong>: “Huh?”
\nCustomer<\/strong>: “I crashed my game. That’s what I said before. I crashed my spaceship and now it doesn’t work.”
\nTech Support<\/strong>: “Click on ‘File,’ then ‘New Game.'”
\nCustomer<\/strong>: [pause] “Wow! How’d you learn how to do that?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"