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hahaha, i know this is offtopic but i have to post this!

  • 09-09-2003 09:03PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭


    *laugh tear* enjoy!

    Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop."
    Customer "Ok."
    Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"
    Customer: "No."
    Tech Support: "Ok. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"
    Customer "No."
    Tech Support:: "Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"
    Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'."

    *

    Customer: "I received the software update you sent, but I am still getting the same error message."
    Tech Support:: "Did you install the update?"
    Customer: "No. Oh, am I supposed to install it to get it to work?"

    *

    Customer:: "I'm having trouble installing Microsoft Word."
    Tech Support:: "Tell me what you've done."
    Customer: "I typed 'A:SETUP'."
    Tech Support:: "Ma'am, remove the disk and tell me what it says."
    Customer:: "It says '[PC manufacturer] Restore and Recovery disk'."
    Tech Support:: "Insert the MS Word setup disk."
    Customer:: "What?"
    Tech Support: "Did you buy MS word?"
    Customer: "No..."

    *

    Customer:: "Do I need a computer to use your software?"
    Tech Support:: ?!%#$

    *

    Tech Support:: "Ok, in the bottom left hand side of the screen, can you see the 'OK' button displayed?"
    Customer: "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"

    *

    Tech Support:: "What type of computer do you have?"
    Customer:: "A white one."

    *

    Tech Support:: "Type 'A:' at the prompt."
    Customer:: "How do you spell that?"

    *

    Tech Support: "Is your computer on a separate telephone line?"
    Customer: "No." (clicks the button to log on to our service)
    Tech Support:: "Well then we can't-"
    Customer:: "It says 'no dial tone'."
    Tech Support: "That's because you're on the line with me right now. You need to-"
    Customer:: "No, that's not it. It does this all the time. I just have to try a few times, and it will let me through."
    Tech Support:: "No, ma'am. It's not even trying to dial right now because you're on the phone with me."
    Customer: "It must be busy. I'll try again later."

    *

    Tech Support: "What's on your screen right now?"
    Customer: "A stuffed animal that my boyfriend got me at the grocery store."

    *

    Tech Support:: "What operating system are you running?"
    Customer: "Pentium."

    *

    Customer: "My computer's telling me I performed an illegal abortion."

    *

    Customer: "I have Microsoft Exploder."

    *

    Customer: "How do I print my voicemail?"

    *

    Customer: "You've got to fix my computer. I urgently need to print document, but the computer won't boot properly."
    Tech Support: "What does it say?"
    Customer: "Something about an error and non-system disk."
    Tech Support: "Look at your machine. Is there a floppy inside?"
    Customer: "No, but there's a sticker saying there's an Intel inside."

    *

    Tech Support: "Just call us back if there's a problem. We're open 24 hours."
    Customer: "Is that Eastern time?"

    *

    Tech Support:: "What does the screen say now?"
    Customer: "It says, 'Hit ENTER when ready'."
    Tech Support:: "Well?"
    Customer: "How do I know when it's ready?"


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭bizmark


    Its funny but the broadband forum is for broadband issues ....The humour forum is for this so its moved

    Funny none the less :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    bizmark, you are damn fast mate! :) when i posted it, i wanted to view it and where is it? it's lost! i started to doubt that i posted it at all :)

    Good moderating mate!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭bizmark


    i like playing mind games on people :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭Pugsley


    8minutes after posting it was outta there..... your quick :o

    Very funny list there, most of em pretty old, and Id say quite a few of them arent true too, but very funny never the less (however no doubt a lot of them have happened before).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,895 ✭✭✭bizmark


    8minutes after posting it was outta there..... your quick

    didnt know moveing topics was a race now :p

    the best tech support to do with computers are people that complan that their cup holder is broken


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