What the fuggggggggg?

[Krogothwolf]

Okay, so you know what. People are freaking stupid. So stupid in face that I don't think we'll survive past the 22nd Century if they keep this up.

First of all, you use computers every day of your life, at work for the past god knows how many years, and you can't figure out how to plug in a keyboard and/or mouse? You don't know how to power down a machine and you CANT FIGURE OUT PROGRAMS YOU'VE BEEN USING FOREVER! Honestly, you've used these stupid accounting programs for the better part of the last 2 decades and you ask the IT guy. "Hey this program I use all the time, how do I backup a file in it and send it the client." Duuuuh...you see that save backup thing when you click save. USE THAT YOU BRAIN DEAD IDIOT! FOR CHRIST SAKES USE YOUR EYES AND YOUR HEAD!!! I'LL MURDER YOU TWICE NOW! NO THREE TIMES IN FACT!

Okay, that rage is over now, lets go help the next person....YOU NEED ME TO CHANGE THE TONER CARTRIDGE IN THE PRINTER YOU'VE BEEN USING SINCE THE LAST DECADE(They sure built printers to last back in the day eh)WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING DUMB! WATCH. Take toner out, put toner in. DUN DUN! WAS THAT SIMPLE OR NOT YOU DAFT IDIOT.

Okay, Kro needs to deal with an issue that wont cause him to throw someone out the window next, or someone will be thrown out the window....WHY THE HELL ARE YOU USING THE COMPUTER AS A FOOT REST YOU MORON, NO WONDER IT SHUTDOWN SO SUDDENLY YOU UNPLUGGED THE DAMN THING WITH YOUR FEET YOU IDIOTIC NINCOMPOOP!

Calm down Kro, no need to murder this moron..This next person seems to have a not idiot issue....no wait..they have an idiot issue...a really idiot issue. Okay so Murder her? No, not murder? But she's gonna forget how to breath you know, we'll be doing her a kindness. No Kro, you can't murder her, just let her die naturally in the next months as she forgets how to breath..okay..fix the problem but don't murder got you.

WHAT THE FREAKING MONKEY BALLS IS WRONG WITH YOU, YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY NOTHING IS WORKING? DO YOU? WELL YOU UNPLUGGED EVERYTHING. WHY THE HELL IS EVERYTHING UNPLUGGED? YOU TRIED TO MOVE IT SLIGHTLY TO THE LEFT SO YOU UNPLUGGED EVERYTHING? PLUG IT BACK IN. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLUG IT IN? WHAT THE HELL! YOU JUST UNPLUGGED IT YOU IDIOT. YOU EVEN UNPLUGGED THE POWER FROM THE MONITORS AND THE PC DID YOU THINK IT DIDN'T NEED THOSE TO POWER ON? NO, JUST HIT THE BUTTON AND IT WILL WORK? Wait, why is your DVD have a coffee cup in it? and why does your second monitor have THINGS TAPED TO THE THE ACTUAL MONITOR NOT THE PLASTIC PARTS? WHAT THE FREAKING HELL PEOPLE, WHAT THE FREAKING HELL!

Kro, don't throw her out the window, you'll be arrested for sure. I DON'T CARE I'M GOING TO MAKE HER DIE FOR THE SUFFERING SHE HAS CAUSED THIS POOR MACHINE! Don't do it Kro, don't do it!!!

ARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH MURDER MOST FOUL, MURDER MOST FOUL NOW!!!!

Thus Kro vents before murdering someone, and someone soon.

[lemmingllama]

Im sorry, but I laughed long and hard when I read this, mainly because I can relate. Herp derp internet explorer doesnt work and I cant see the litle symbol on my screen saying im not connected to the internet... Still, just breathe and think about pretty computer parts you want

Also, can I motion for this going in the lit board?

[† Talena Mae]

Oh Krog, Krog, Krog, what an.... interesting life you live.... Can i Put her and all the computer illiterates in the TC for you? will that help my dear Krog? ^.^

*EDIT* on and LL this is not a story as such, this is a work day in the life of Krog.

[† ParasiteEve]

At least twice a week at work I'm getting told the printer isn't printing and it's always one of two things, it's out of paper or a paper jam.

I mean how is something so simple that confusing to some people? And where is the common sense to check those things before calling someone to "fix' it? These things baffle me.

[Krogothwolf]

Honestly. There is stupid and then STUPID! some of these people are STUPID! How do you work with computers for 15-20 years and not know how to plug things in? Gah! Why unplug things if you don't know how to replug em in!

[† ParasiteEve]

I think the real question is, how does someone NOT know how to plug something in?

Even when you don't really know what you're working with its normally easy to figure out where something like that would go.

I'm also the only one beside the office manager that knows how to send an email with attachments, I didn’t even know something like that was difficult but they proved me wrong.

[† Emotional Outlet]

We're not allowed to unplug or move anything at work lest we face the wrath of the computer gods. Mostly to keep dumb people like that from giving everyone else heart attacks, but because we have secured and non-secured lines and wires everywhere. God forbid any of those get crossed or a secure phone comes within three feet of a non-secure phone.

Our mail servers underwent a pretty big update because of a security flaw my husband pointed out, so now you can't send attachments without publishing your certs to Big Brother. It isn't a big deal if you sit at the same computer every day, but for the people who work on flight, you're lucky to get a computer, let alone the same one. Every new computer you sit at, you have to republish your certs. It seems like no matter how many times I show certain people how to publish their certs, they immediately dump the information.

And apparently no one knows how to make Excel spreadsheets or Powerpoints that don't suck balls.

[lemmingllama]

Powerpoints that don't suck balls.

OMG you took the words out of my mouth. People, please understand that a powerpoint is a visual aid, so dont write a bloody Shakespearian script on screen then read it. Or better yet, dont put those yellow letters on your pretty white background, sure you have a pile of information that we dont need to know but now we cant see it either! Oh, and you are also wasting my time with you spending as much time letting the stupid letters do random spinning shit as you do actually reading off your slideshow? Yes, I have only seen two really good powerpoints that werent made by me in the past 5 years...

[Stuy]

LMAO kro this post made my day XD

welcome to the wonderful f**king world of IT where ppl at the work place know f**k all bout anything ^^

and this is why i'm studying mechanic's and not IT cause ya don't have to deal with f**ktards all day long > <

cause i have no patience at all for this kind of sh*t, and i mean none zip zero..

even though i do enjoy helping ppl, i do have my limits

[† Shazi]

it annoys me when stupid people go "oh i can't be bothered figureing it out, i will ask the tech guy"

when i have an issue, i stop, think of what i have done to the computer in the last 24 hours, check all the cords to make sure they are plugged in properly, and if it still doesn't work THEN call the tech guy.

it may seem stupid to us savvy peoples, but there is a reason when you call a tech guy the first thing he asks is if you have it plugged in. So many times i have had my old computer crash because i kept kicking the power cord out. i now sit cross legged on computer chairs

[Alegend1994]

Yeah people can be stupid, lazy and just don't want to take responsibility for anything that could potential get them in trouble, I probably have some of these traits to be fair, but I always want to be able to solve something by myself.

But I just think that if I can do something like this for someone who is a idiot person it shows that I am that bit better than them in that area.

I'm also the only one beside the office manager that knows how to send an email with attachments, I didn’t even know something like that was difficult but they proved me wrong.

I am pretty rubbish with e-mails, I never e-mail anyone anyway since I always talk to them face-to-face so it's not too bad, but I know that most jobs have to use e-mails to make the job easier, so it can't be avoided. The thing I find weird is that I can do more than most people that e-mail everyday so I can see how unimportant these things are to these people, they just want to pass the responsibility onto someone else since they can't be bothered.

[† Emotional Outlet]

We have to use email in our unit due to our schedules. People on flight work panamas and half of them are nights while the others are on days. All the people in the regular day shop work the normal Monday to Friday schedule. It's extremely annoying especially for people on nights because people will send out emails with extremely short suspenses that we'll miss because they sent it on our days off, or they'll schedule things during the day, breaking crew rest for those on nights.

As far as asking stupid questions, sometimes the power of complaining comes into effect. "I swear it was messing up before I showed you." It's annoying, but at least I didn't lose anything but a short walk to another computer, haha. Luckily, I haven't much of a reputation at work for computer magic, so I get left alone for most of the day. Except occasionally by my friends, though that sometimes results in the above "I swear it was broken earlier" scenario.

[Krogothwolf]

I don't even want to get on e-mails. Do you know how many people don't even understand proper email etiquette? Or the fact that even if it's an internal email sent to someone in IT going "2, u, thx, r" is not how you're suppose to send things. Fuuuugggggggggggggggg

I STILL WANT TO MURDER THAT GODDAMN ACCOUNTANT! Honestly, there building overlooks a busy road, if I just throw her out the window she's sure to die! If not from the fall then from a car!

SHE JUST CRASHED HER COMPUTER BECAUSE AFTER I SPECIFICALLY SAID, HEY DUMBASSS DON'T PUT YOUR COFFEE CUP IN THE DVD HOLDER, SHE DID IT AGAIN. SHE THEN MANAGED TO SPILL IT INSIDE THE COMPUTER! MURDERESS RAGE IS GROWING!

KRO SMASH!

KRO NO LIKE ACCOUNTANT

KRO DESTROY!

[DrumRoll]

we all fly in planes, sail in boats, drive in cars and come home to watch televison on our TV's via a satellite in space. There are hundreds of things we use everyday, that we have no clue about; its why plumbers, builders and electricians never go out of work. And they all probably think the same way as you do:D

I work with horses so I now what its like to do something, something you understand so well, and completely fail.

[Krogothwolf]

we all fly in planes, sail in boats, drive in cars and come home to watch televison on our TV's via a satellite in space. There are hundreds of things we use everyday, that we have no clue about; its why plumbers, builders and electricians never go out of work. And they all probably think the same way as you do:D

I work with horses so I now what its like to do something, something you understand so well, and completely fail.

You know how to plug a tv in, you know how to turn your car on, open the trunk and open the doors. Plugging and unplugging cables in a computer is not that hard, and if you unplug something you can plug it back in can you not? This isn't the rocket science part of the job I'm talking about, I'm talking about PLUGGING CABLES IN AND NOT USING A DVD DRIVE AS A CUP HOLDER!!! ARRRRRRRRRGH

[Alegend1994]

we all fly in planes, sail in boats, drive in cars and come home to watch televison on our TV's via a satellite in space. There are hundreds of things we use everyday, that we have no clue about; its why plumbers, builders and electricians never go out of work. And they all probably think the same way as you do:D

Yeah but that's more specialistic than what Kro's talking about, if people could be bothered they could probably be able to work out how to add an attachment instead of relying on someone to do your every need for you. If I were to guess someone asking an IT tech to check why there computer isn't working, when everything is unplugged, is the same as asking an electrician why the bulb in their lamp isn't working, when the filament has split. What I'm trying to get at is that the person should check for simple solutions before giving up and putting the work load on the hands of expects.

As far as asking stupid questions, sometimes the power of complaining comes into effect. "I swear it was messing up before I showed you." It's annoying, but at least I didn't lose anything but a short walk to another computer, haha. Luckily, I haven't much of a reputation at work for computer magic, so I get left alone for most of the day. Except occasionally by my friends, though that sometimes results in the above "I swear it was broken earlier" scenario.

I hate it when people just try to pass the blame onto someone else just to save their sorry ass, it's just selfish and dishonest in my opinion. Even if the blame is mostly on the person your blaming you should take some responsibility for the part that is your fault, since there is no one person at fault usually it's a percentage of how much it's your fault in my eyes.

[† Mute point]

I know how to turn my computer on and off, replace basic components, and plug the cables in I just don't understand what all the silly numbers mean sometimes.. Especially when it's not always a case of "Higher number is better" They like to try to confuse people.

I can also do basic plumbing and electrical work by myself Because I'm smart enough to shut off the power before touching the wires, or shut off the water before touching the pipes. Yup.. Silly professionals won't get money from me for little jobs like rewiring a lamp or replacing a sink.

[Strick9]

Playing Devil's advocate here, it's frikkin idiots like that that keep us gainfully employed. If most people were proficient and computer literate, most of us would be out of a job or would need a masters degree just for an entry level position. So, the derp in accounting thinks he broke the internet? That's a dollar in my pocket.