Tech Support Humour

I thought those tech support humour sites were full of stories that just happened to other people. I was wrong. This was the contents of a recent email from someone (who shall remain nameless) who wasn't sure why a file was refusing to open.

OOOOOOH- I didn't like them all ending in doc. so took it off all the documents!

Tech Support Humour was posted on 08 June 2007 and has not been tagged yet. Tweet This!

20 Comments

Well, if they were mac users, it wouldn't matter :)

#1, cameron, United States, 8 June 2007. Reply to this.

90% + are PCs..
also, Mac does have MAC :)

#2, LA SEO, Unknown, 9 June 2007. Reply to this.

Sorry, I meant:
also, Mac does have DOC :)

regards,

#3, LA SEO, Unknown, 11 June 2007. Reply to this.

That's hillarious!

#4, Rusky, United States, 14 June 2007. Reply to this.

I have another good, but it was with my boss, so I didn't publicate it.

Boss: "Which port is running the application?"
Me: "4545, but you haven't access, because it's ruunnig in localhost".
Boss: "Which machine is localhost?"

#5, jose, Spain, 14 June 2007. Reply to this.

Jose,
that situation happens with me twice in my life :).
Once it was tricky, i change the host file to www.google.com to point to my localhost and my teacher went crazy :).

#6, Adi, Unknown, 19 June 2007. Reply to this.

This story reminds moe of a coworker who has having problems wiht file permissions on Linux so he just changed them all to world readable and writable.

chmod -R 777 /

Back in the internet hay day. What a crazy time.

#7, steve, Unknown, 21 June 2007. Reply to this.

I guess is too early, sorry for all the typos in the previous entry.

Never too early for humor.

#8, Steve, Unknown, 21 June 2007. Reply to this.

Ahh, some people are too dumb to be using a computer. There should be some kind of license or test first.

#9, Jarl, Norway, 24 June 2007. Reply to this.

HAHAHA... Nice... I once had to explain to a customer where the "enter" button were on the keyboard... Took quite a time before she found it ;)

#10, HKB, Denmark, 26 June 2007. Reply to this.

lol, i heard about a guy who used soap and water to 'clean his hard drive'.

#11, Luke, United Kingdom, 27 June 2007. Reply to this.

No wonder Luke,

One of my friends, working a sysadmin, advised someone to clean his keyboard using the same old "soap and water"... he had no idea the things were about a notebook ;)

#12, Max, Estonia, 28 June 2007. Reply to this.

Honestly, I did clean my keyboard using water once :). I left until it dries and then I used it again! It worked 100%

#13, Los Angeles Search Engine Optimization, Unknown, 30 June 2007. Reply to this.

Those are all very funny.

#14, Josh, Unknown, 10 July 2007. Reply to this.

I once had a client who emailed me to tell me her email was down. I called her and said I would have called her, but my phone was broken.

#15, Mark Maccollin, United States, 10 July 2007. Reply to this.

I worked with apple macs. A guy phoned one day and told me, quite seriously, that the guy at the computer store told him that he could upgrade his mac with an intel chip. You could. By plugging in a special card. This guy actually bought the processor. He called and informed me - "Right", he said, "I've got the soldering iron ready." <pause> "but there are more pings on the intel chip than on the board. What do I do?".

I put him on hold and then paged "Service, line 2" and burst out laughing, finally unable to restrain myself. 5 minutes later there was a raw of laughter upstairs.

Can you imagine it? Wonder how he got on?

#16, Marc, Australia, 14 July 2007. Reply to this.

This is so hilarious
Never hapenned to me yet. :D

#17, Mark, Unknown, 19 July 2007. Reply to this.

Classic. Those clients just love getting you to help them for free. Sometimes I forget that all tech companies are secretly charities and are free of financial obligations. Or did you slap a £100 fee on this :P

My favorite so far is - "I want to come up on page one of Google for every major town in Britain and i've got a £500 to spend." - I'm paraphrasing.

#18, Mutiny Design, United Kingdom, 31 July 2007. Reply to this.

Still waiting to happen something funny at my job. Maybe my boss will get fired or smth...LOL

#19, referate, Unknown, 11 December 2007. Reply to this.

I worked for Hewlett Packard telephone tech support (in Canada) and once had a customer holler at me because she claimed "my desktop did not come with a cd rom".

I asked her "how old is the machine", she replied "two days".

I asked her to look for a button on the front of the tower near the top, she said "Near the cup holder?"... I put her on hold until she hung up.

#20, HP tech support, Canada, 3 February 2008. Reply to this.

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