Get off my lawn you damn kids!

[Wenchie]

And the STOOPID continues.

Keep in mind that my customers are 300 years old on average and remember when property listings were etched into cave walls. No offense to anyone on here who happens to be in this profession... I know there are a few good ones out there... but they don't call me. No, the ones that call me have to ask their great-grandchildren how to turn on a computer.

My entire day worked slowly to kill my remaining brain cells, and I heard "Back in MY day" too many times, complete with someone bitching at me over something out of my control. Sorry, sir, but your windows 95 computer will NOT work with our system. Have fun with your doorstop!

Had one woman ask if she had the correct number, because she needed tech support and I'm young-sounding and female. Was told I was too young to be a tech.

And the last caller of my day...

It took me 16 minutes to explain to her how to maximize a window.

Yes, you read that correctly. SIXTEEN MINUTES. I was creating a noose out of the phone cord after seven minutes of it, and yet it continued, like one of those nightmares where you dream you somehow got back together with your creepy ex and when you wake up you realize that he really is standing at your bedroom window steaming up the glass... luckily from the outside.

Unfortunately, you can't call the cops on stupidity.

[lupo pazzesco]

...

*gives Wenchie more chocolate and raspberries*

I am so so so so SO sorry...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Not the cops, but maybe Dogbert.

[Mytical]

I am beginning to think stupid is contagious, some have an immunity, but the rest of the population is doomed. Unfortunately, the ones without an immunity seem to breed a lot faster then the ones without. I've watched this in action in fact (that is another post for another time).

Maximizing a screen though? I thought there were two year olds who could figure that out..

[Sarcastro]

I am beginning to think stupid is contagious, some have an immunity, but the rest of the population is doomed. Unfortunately, the ones without an immunity seem to breed a lot faster then the ones without. I've watched this in action in fact (that is another post for another time).

Maximizing a screen though? I thought there were two year olds who could figure that out..

I think that's the first thing you learn when you get on the internet. Or maybe I'm just oldschool.

15 year old me back in 1995: Dude, is that a picture of a naked lady on your computer?

Friend: Yep.

Me: Dude, can I make it bigger?

Friend: Yeah, just click that box.

Me: Oh *click* *cue pixelated boobs in 256 colors maximizing* Dude... tell me about this internet thing again.

See it's literally the first thing I learned when I touched a computer and I learned it in less than 2 seconds. And technology was much more crude and slow back then. As was pornography.

[Kristev]

How can you not know how to maximize a window?

[Tama]

When you're older than Gandalf and don't know how anything with any moving parts more complicated than a wooden axle works.

[protege]

It took me 16 minutes to explain to her how to maximize a window.

Ugh. I feel your pain. Sunday night, around 11:30, my grandmother called me up. She was freaking out over something she'd done on her computer. Somehow, she ended up with about a dozen shortcuts for her Mahjong game all over the desktop. It took at least 15 minutes to tell her how to either drag them to the recycle bin, or click and hit the delete key. 15 minutes of my life that I'll never get back

What's sad, is that this isn't her first computer, and she's had them for about 15-20 years now. I've even supplied her with a full set of the "Computers for Dummies" books

[Marmalady]

Ohhhh....... why did you have to reawaken the painful memory of when I had to teach my mother how to attach a file to an e-mail?

(curls up whimpering)

[hobbitt97]

I've had my mom call up playing computer stupid for 20 years now. I refer her to Trend Micro tech support for them to deal with her.

[technical.angel]

A staff member was having some trouble moving files. Of course, she called it in, and then left on vacation the next day..., without giving me a heads up. grrr...

So, on Monday, I head over there. Sure enough, everything's just fine. She, however, refuses to accept this, even though I went through the EXACT SAME STEPS she used, and could not recreate the problem.

So, she made me stay there, in her office, while she moved about 20 files. One. At. A. Bloody. Time.

[Sapphire Silk]

I keep trying to explain to my Mom that the funny noise she hears on the phone is not a problem with the phone line, but her voice mail. I've shown her how to access it and clear it out.

The next day she'll call me back complaining about it again. *sigh*

[technical.angel]

Been there, done that, still trying to find the t-shirt.

[Chrismor]

Thank you Irv for reminding me of that. I am a massive fan of Dogbert, and had that as may desktop wallpaper for many years, before changing computers. I really need to resurrect that.

C,
Wearer of the "No, I will not fix your computer" t-shirt, alternated with "It must be user error" and "There's no place like 127.0.0.1"

[telecom_goddess]

I keep trying to explain to my Mom that the funny noise she hears on the phone is not a problem with the phone line, but her voice mail. I've shown her how to access it and clear it out.

The next day she'll call me back complaining about it again. *sigh*

If my mom had even bothered with voicemail it would have been the same with her. She never even got an answering machine. She never even got a push button phone, but had rotary dials until she died . She never owned a microwave or a color tv. She refused to use the atm. She just would NOT move with technology.

Must be why I love it all so much......technology that is.