In my line of business I get “I don’t know how to deal with a ZIP file, could you just email me the PDF files instead” #6 email=FTP
It isn’t so bad now that we have a wireless setup, but when we were stuck on dial up (way out boonies) I just charged ’em $2 and printed/mailed the stuff instead.
Thanks Rand, that was entertaining.
I could understand the “I don’t know how to deal with a ZIP” thing back in 2000 or so, when you might well have to install a tool to use a compressed archive.
But now every OS any normal person uses* has integrated “click on it and it goes” ZIP support.
(* ie, Windows newer than Win2k (which might have also had integrated ZIP, I just can’t remember), OSX, and probably many of the desktop Linuxes, not that they’re “normal person” OSes yet.)
Very funny, thanks. I especially liked the opt out example. Nuking is too good for them.
Hey, all the photos my wife took of me water-skiing with the cat are rotated sideways. Could you rotate them properly and then email me the files back?
No.
What?
Your camera’s manufacturer has a really vicious DRM policy. If you want those pictures properly oriented you and your cat are going to have to go back to the lake and your wife’s going to have to hold the camera right-side up this time. Sorry.
Too, too familiar!
I must dissent. Yes, there is frustration when dealing with technology.
Not knowing the secret word does not make you stupid. This would include not knowing how to unzip a file (which OS included stuff often doesn’t work, meaning you have to either pay for one or find one that does work.)
It takes no great talent to boggle people. This is why a programmer can take weeks to write code for a user to do something the programmer could do in minutes with the tools supplied with the operating system.
Humility trumps arrogance every time.
Tell me what number I’m thinking of? If you can’t you’re just stupid… now that’s a silly game.
Some people have lives that do not revolve around computer minutia.
Over 90% of the computers and operating systems I’ve used since the mid seventies don’t exist anymore. Anyone want to take bets on how long your favorite computer tool will last?
I do love roadrunner cartoons.
Speaking of emails. A customers, married to a motorcycle cop, used to send me work inappropriate pictures… often. How do you respond to that?
There was this one time I spent nearly 2 hours running scanpst on a customer’s corrupt PST file only to find out it was jammed full of joke emails the customer had saved since the dawn of time. Not a single email was work related and many emails were filthy porn bloopers or various other NSFW material. I normally don’t dwell too much on the personal stuff that people keep on their computer but this guy I couldn’t help but turn over to IT security. I mean that’s some serious cojones to actively keep NSFW material on your work computer. But to then request help from IT when the spank material is no longer responding properly? Wow!
Josh Reiter:
I’m not certain that customer kept those e-mails on purpose. He may not have known any better.
I work in a printing shop, and I have one customer who I swear only knows how to hit the “forward” button and nothing else. My company is a wholesale printer, and our customers are printing brokers. He forwards his customers’ e-mails to me, and they contain discussions of the retail prices which he charges, which he really shouldn’t be sending to me since it’s none of my business. TMI, in other words. That information can help my company maximize the prices we charge him, if you know what I mean.
Unless she’s ugly, of course…
Not her. I however am. That’s the real boggle.
rickl: at 4:32 pm
Great story.
Ken, So what you do is use a picture of your cows instead.
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Not sure how cows entered the picture??? But it does remind me of my cousin that went to Europe with some partners. They had a portfolio full of pictures of beautiful SD cows. The buyers thought they were getting the cows, but all they got were the pictures. I ended up broke in CO because I was fool enough to believe one of his stories. He really was a talented liar. His teenage children all think he was a super spy in the navy. I remember how close he got to being kicked out of the navy.
In my line of business I get “I don’t know how to deal with a ZIP file, could you just email me the PDF files instead” #6 email=FTP
It isn’t so bad now that we have a wireless setup, but when we were stuck on dial up (way out boonies) I just charged ’em $2 and printed/mailed the stuff instead.
Thanks Rand, that was entertaining.
I could understand the “I don’t know how to deal with a ZIP” thing back in 2000 or so, when you might well have to install a tool to use a compressed archive.
But now every OS any normal person uses* has integrated “click on it and it goes” ZIP support.
(* ie, Windows newer than Win2k (which might have also had integrated ZIP, I just can’t remember), OSX, and probably many of the desktop Linuxes, not that they’re “normal person” OSes yet.)
Very funny, thanks. I especially liked the opt out example. Nuking is too good for them.
No.
Your camera’s manufacturer has a really vicious DRM policy. If you want those pictures properly oriented you and your cat are going to have to go back to the lake and your wife’s going to have to hold the camera right-side up this time. Sorry.
Too, too familiar!
I must dissent. Yes, there is frustration when dealing with technology.
Not knowing the secret word does not make you stupid. This would include not knowing how to unzip a file (which OS included stuff often doesn’t work, meaning you have to either pay for one or find one that does work.)
It takes no great talent to boggle people. This is why a programmer can take weeks to write code for a user to do something the programmer could do in minutes with the tools supplied with the operating system.
Humility trumps arrogance every time.
Tell me what number I’m thinking of? If you can’t you’re just stupid… now that’s a silly game.
Some people have lives that do not revolve around computer minutia.
Over 90% of the computers and operating systems I’ve used since the mid seventies don’t exist anymore. Anyone want to take bets on how long your favorite computer tool will last?
I do love roadrunner cartoons.
Speaking of emails. A customers, married to a motorcycle cop, used to send me work inappropriate pictures… often. How do you respond to that?
How do you respond to that?
“My non-work e-mail address is: xxx@xxxxx.com”
Unless she’s ugly, of course…
What, no?
There was this one time I spent nearly 2 hours running scanpst on a customer’s corrupt PST file only to find out it was jammed full of joke emails the customer had saved since the dawn of time. Not a single email was work related and many emails were filthy porn bloopers or various other NSFW material. I normally don’t dwell too much on the personal stuff that people keep on their computer but this guy I couldn’t help but turn over to IT security. I mean that’s some serious cojones to actively keep NSFW material on your work computer. But to then request help from IT when the spank material is no longer responding properly? Wow!
Josh Reiter:
I’m not certain that customer kept those e-mails on purpose. He may not have known any better.
I work in a printing shop, and I have one customer who I swear only knows how to hit the “forward” button and nothing else. My company is a wholesale printer, and our customers are printing brokers. He forwards his customers’ e-mails to me, and they contain discussions of the retail prices which he charges, which he really shouldn’t be sending to me since it’s none of my business. TMI, in other words. That information can help my company maximize the prices we charge him, if you know what I mean.
Unless she’s ugly, of course…
Not her. I however am. That’s the real boggle.
rickl: at 4:32 pm
Great story.
Ken, So what you do is use a picture of your cows instead.
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Not sure how cows entered the picture??? But it does remind me of my cousin that went to Europe with some partners. They had a portfolio full of pictures of beautiful SD cows. The buyers thought they were getting the cows, but all they got were the pictures. I ended up broke in CO because I was fool enough to believe one of his stories. He really was a talented liar. His teenage children all think he was a super spy in the navy. I remember how close he got to being kicked out of the navy.