Drowning in Ineptness
User: I need help printing.
Me: What’s the matter?
User: I can’t print.
Me: What kind of problems are you having? (trying to find out a little bit more to help troubleshoot)
User: The printer says out and gives me an error, and the other one crinkles the paper.
Me: Okay. Let’s go take a look.
Me (looking at an inkjet printer): How do you turn this on?
User: You just turn it on. (I deserved that one)
Me (pushing the power button): Hmm, it’s not going on.
User (jiggling the power cord): Sometimes I have to jiggle the power cord since it gets loose.
Printer starts printing.
Aaaaaahhhhhh!!! I’m drowning in ineptness! I think the Tabasco Man may have been right when he hinted that private school alumni are cocky.
Anonymous
August 24, 2006 @ 2:16 pm
Just wait until your customer tells you that you can’t leave until he can log on to server that you have no control over. How do you handle that.
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Gee Why
August 25, 2006 @ 6:42 am
Is that why you’re still at work? 😉
Got no answers for ludicrous stuff like that. These are the type of scenario questions I hear Google and Microsoft give as part of their interviews.