NOT REALLY OFFICE HUMOR, BUT FUNNY NONE-THE-LESS
Presented by:
Jeffrey S. Weil,
MCR.h, CCIM, SIOR
Senior Vice President
COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL
925.279.5590
From: MicroTimes,
January 7, 2000
Strange Requests Asked of Help Specialists, Survey Says
RHI Consulting, the Palo Alto, CA-based management
consulting firm, recently queried 470 IT consultants about the questions they
receive from their customers. The
question the firm asked was: “What
is the strangest request you have ever heard of or received from a client or end
user?” Here are some of the
responses:
- This
PC just performed an illegal operation!
Will I get in trouble?
- How
do I prevent the coffee cup holder (CD-ROM drive) from going back into the
computer?
- Please
warn me next time my computer is going to crash.
- Is
there a way to cheat at solitaire?
- Why
doesn’t my mouse work? (The
user was waving mouse in the air rather than using it on her desktop.)
- My
large floppy is stuck in the small disk drive – how can I read it?
(The user had folded a 5 ¼ floppy in half and inserted it into the 3
1/2–disk drive.)
- How
do I push those buttons on the screen?
(The user was unaware that the mouse was necessary for navigation.)
- Can
you please help me open the shrink-wrap on my software?
- Is
it necessary for me to plug in my tape drive before I back up data?
- I
write “click” but nothing is happening!
(The help desk technician had asked the user to right-click.)
- I
need help un-sending the e-mail I just sent!
- Could
you please fix my computer at home?
- How
do I plug in my PC?
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