My job is in no way related to tech support. However, my bosses are all fairly tech illiterate (and we just upgraded them - but not me! - to Office 2010 and Windows 7, so there goes their familiarity with their computers!) so I seem like a freaking genius comparatively.
Has anyone ever seen that episode of "The IT Crowd" where Jen asks Roy to install a browser for her, and he tells her that Internet Explorer is her browser, and she says something to the effect of "That big E? No, that's the button for the Internet!" and Roy flips his shit?
Well, I had just seen it. It was hilarious. So when my 60-something boss came out of her office to inform me that "It keeps telling me to close my browser. What's a browser? Do I need one? Can you give me one? Why is it tellimg me that? What does it MEAN?!?!?" I tried so desperately not to laugh at her that I choked on my gum and nearly threw up.
But on the plus side, so long as she can't remember that she can Google anything she has a question about, I'll never be out of a job.
And the other boss keeps asking me how to cut & paste. For reals.
Has anyone ever seen that episode of "The IT Crowd" where Jen asks Roy to install a browser for her, and he tells her that Internet Explorer is her browser, and she says something to the effect of "That big E? No, that's the button for the Internet!" and Roy flips his shit?
Well, I had just seen it. It was hilarious. So when my 60-something boss came out of her office to inform me that "It keeps telling me to close my browser. What's a browser? Do I need one? Can you give me one? Why is it tellimg me that? What does it MEAN?!?!?" I tried so desperately not to laugh at her that I choked on my gum and nearly threw up.
But on the plus side, so long as she can't remember that she can Google anything she has a question about, I'll never be out of a job.
And the other boss keeps asking me how to cut & paste. For reals.
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