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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
From a previous job:
In a power cut: "My computer won't turn on! Why won't my computer turn on?"
A different person came up to the IT dept and asked us when the lifts would be working. When we shrugged and said we had no idea, they berated us, as because lifts have computers in them, they are obviously an IT issue.
In both cases, the people were being serious...
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Well, even dealing with my neighbor's PC today (and I really like this guy) ... the conversation went something like this:
Him: It's really SLOW, I think there is something wrong with the router!
Me: If it's taking 5 minutes for a program to load, that's not the router. It has nothing to do with the router.
Him: It's NOT my computer!! I've still got plenty of space on the hard drive.
Me: The hard drive has very little to do with the overall speed of the computer. It's probably the RAM. Now, see, according to this, you only have 512 worth of RAM in this computer. Your printer uses 30 of that just sitting there, your work connection takes another 60 ... again, not even when it's working ... you have 70 processes running in the background, each one is using over 1K ... and that's not even counting Windows XP which requires a fair amount to run well.
Him: But there's plenty of room on my hard drive.
Me: Give me your credit card, I'm popping the RAM out of this thing and ordering you as much as this model will take. And, great, I can't find the model number on this machine ... and the old HP support 800 number has become a "hot singles chat line."
(Much moaning ensues as I climb under the desk, pull apart the computer, take the RAM out to see what I need to order, and then put it all back together.)
I give up. I got next to nothing done today. I've still got the neighbor's dogs to walk, and I'm beat.
Yuk!