I once had a support call where I told the customer to click the Start button and they didn't know what it was. I clarified by saying that it was the button in the corner of the screen. They did it and then said that their entire screen turned black.

Apparently they'd pushed the power button on their monitor.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To the guy a few weeks ago that said I wasn't being fair to users not reading error messages and comparing it to a doctor reading your charts. Read this fucking thread.

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A ton of power users who never worked in service desk don't understand how incompetent the average user is. It is quite something.

I'm laughing my ass off reading this threat because I can imagine every single one happening.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, my last job I was part IT. It was amazing how bad some shit was. We had an old old computer running a machine and it was on windows 2000 (there was no upgrade path for this thing). One day it broke, HDD failure. User sends in a ticket saying its not working and that the software seems to be out of date...

At some point the place I was working at was acquired, and the new parent company bought one of our competitors across town. These people were a fucking tier 1 issue factory. "My teams doesn't work" they weren't connected to the internet. "My old email doesn't work" that was discontinued 3 months ago. "My old email still doesn't work" sir this is the 8th time you've mentioned this, it was discontinued 5 months ago.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

When I was young, older people thought the monitor was the computer and had no idea there was a chassi under the desk connected to it. :)

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Enter the imac.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you ever seen the original Mac?

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but was never a mac dude.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When I was young people thought the keyboard was the computer. And they were right.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Vic20?

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or commodore 64. Amiga 500. Schneider 6128. ZX spectrum. Just to name a few from my time.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Actually yeah, I didnt think of that but commodore 64 was my first computer. Its actually incredible the things it could do without any cooling or fan, and tiny graphics chip...

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of that story where a company secretary thought the towers are just junk and asked the whole lot thrown out the entire office