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Working sucks. I want a job where people pay me to make computers for myself rather than people paying me to make computers for them, which they're just gonna break anyways.

Customer> "Why won't my computer work?"

Me> "Oh, I think the problem is located in the I D 10 T transistor located on your motherboard."

Customer> "Oh." Blank stare falls heavily upon their face. "Can you fix it?"

Me> "Why no, I'm quite sure that fixing that I D 10 T transistor is quite impossible."

Customer> "Oh. Do I need a new motherboard?"

Me> "Yes, yes you do." aside- "You ********> "How much will that cost?"

Me> Muttering, "these past 2 hours of my life. I want them back, dammit."

Customer> "What was that, I didn't hear you."

Me> "About $100."

Moral of the story: If you don't know how to use a computer, DON'T FRIGGING USE ONE!!!!!!! Seriously, these people are as bad as someone who doesn't know which end of a gun the bullet comes out of; complete with similar end-results. You toy around with it and don't know what the ******** you're doing, someone's probably gonna get hurt, and it's probably the asshat toying around.

The I D 10 T thing? Don't use it, eh? That's rude, obnoxoius, and really really old.

I don't know s**t about my computer. One greasy little geek told me I had an I D 10 T error when a circut thingy blew or fried or whatever. I don't care how my computer works, and I don't want to learn because it's boring as hell and I have better things to do.

So I didn't read most of your post, but if you're trying to make excuses for being disrespectful, I don't want to hear them.

Ok, I disrespected you. But I don't even know you, so I really don't care.

People who wake me up.... SUFFER my music. >;D That goes for ******** dogs that won't shut up too.

Never once did I say that everyone had to know about the inner workings of their computer. I don't expect most people to be that in-depth. All I ask is that people remember to plug the tower in before calling tech support.

The guy that I was helping had installed no less than 20 programs on his own within the first 24 hours of when he purchased the computer from the company I work for. Another 30 or so were malware/spyware. It completely nuked computer. I swapped out the RAM and CPU (both worked fine) as well as the motherboard (totally burnt out).

His reason on calling the store was that his computer wasn't turning on. We asked him if both his monitor and tower were plugged in. He responded in the affirmative. I was sent over there and the first thing I did was plug in the tower to the wall jack. Seriously, remove head from a**.... *shakes head in disgust*

And once again, never once did I demand that people know each and every inner workings on their computer. Hell, I know people just won't understand that stuff. But for ******** sake, to the idiots out there, while the computer is a great and wonderful convenience, REMEMBER TO PLUG THE DAMN THING IN!

This is above and beyond, of course, knowing what will nuke your computer via surfing the web. As was stated in my 2nd post in this completely ridiculous 'discussion' in a most sardonic tone, "Well Mr. Robinson, if you didn't surf around for pornography all damn night while the wife is asleep, you wouldn't have gotten all that malware and spyware."

Ah well, I just have to cope with the realization that human ignorance is my bread-and-butter.

Oh, and any continuation of this in this post in a negative manner is gonna get some rather disagreeable feedback from yours truly, possibly a banning or two, depending on the offense (I am an officer of this guild, after all). I don't b***h in a thread designed for venting to have my means of employment and quite frankly, me personally, attacked in any such way. I won't do that to you guys and I had hoped that it wouldn't happen to me. Jopwie proved me wrong.

Mmhmm,....

I wasn't saying anything except that making fun of people who don't know about computers was childish. No reason to get in such a huff.

I'm an officer too. There's no reason to ban someone for disagreeing with you in my opinion.

Rant about your job as much as you want. We are allowed to disagree with you though.


Now for my agreement with you,

Yes, haivng to plug something in because people didn't would drive me ******** insane and I would want to hurt them. Badly. You just didn't make it that clear that those were the people you were making fun of.

In that case, poke away. Even put their head through a monitor if you want. smile

ANd if you thought working in a tech support is bad, try a convenience store in the middle of welfare bourg. After that you'll see what true stupidity is.