Making things clear for me

[Phone Jockey]

Customer: Things are coming in but they’re not going out on the computer.
Me: OK.
Customer: They’re going IN, you see, not OUT.
Me: Yes sir.
Customer: They’re not going out, you got that, right?

[Broomjockey]

Thank goodness he repeated himself like that. I know I was really lost until that 3rd time around. Talk about

[Phone Jockey]

Bj...you are right on the money. So glad he decided to be clear. Cuz I'm an idiot, you know. ROFL

[Comp_geek]

I'm guessing he was talking about emails or messaging ??

[Legal Eagle]

so he's getting incoming but not outgoing then?

[cpux]

That guy should be lucky he's getting anything at all. My friend sent me an internet last friday through email, and it only got here today. It's cause those tubes are all clogged up.

(this post borrowed from technical dunce and senator Ted Stevens)

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yeah, they think if they just say it often enough, eventually they will make sense. Here's one that about made me clock out at Kinko's and walk down to the microbrewerey down the street.

SC: I need you all to do some artwork for me. Can you all make an original graphic? (technically, no, Kinko's doesn't offer that, but we had several artists, myself included, working there that might have been willing it give it a go. We did that sometimes on a case-by-case basis.)

Me: Well, I don't know. Whacha got in mind?

SC: I need a picture of a mountain with Noah's ark in the mountain.

Me:You mean landed on it?

SC: No. In the mountain.

Me: Like, sticking out of a cave or something?

SC: No. In the mountain.

Me. Um. Like buried?

SC: No. In the mountain

Me: Having a hard time following you. Like maybe PART of the mountain?

SC: No. In the mountain.

Me: Sir, I really don't understand.

SC: You know! In the mountain! In the mountain! (he wasnt' getting mad, mind. He seemed fairly patient. But I could feel that steel door behind my eyes slamming shut like it does when I'm absolutely done trying to be helpful.)

Me: Um......Hm. Well, sir, I don't think we can do that. You can look through our clip art book. Or the phone book and see if you can find an artist in the phone book.

SC: You don't think you can do it?

Me: No. No I don't. We don't do graphics, sorry.

[technical.angel]

That guy should be lucky he's getting anything at all. My friend sent me an internet last friday through email, and it only got here today. It's cause those tubes are all clogged up.

(this post borrowed from technical dunce and senator Ted Stevens)

Well, you know, it's a simple problem. They're just using too big of a font. If you use a smaller font, there's less of it to go through...

(Thank you Professor Mirelli... what would my degree have been like with out all your "wonderful" jokes?)

[Phone Jockey]

Well, you know, it's a simple problem. They're just using too big of a font. If you use a smaller font, there's less of it to go through...

I hadn't thought of that. Why didn't I think of that? They're not going out, they're going in...but not out!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Maybe the guy's computer was like a roach motel? You know, they check in but they don't check out.

Maybe you should have told him to unplug it before it filled up and exploded.

[stormtreader]

He should be careful - if they get stuck in his pc, they could die and thats where computer viruses come from.