Pet Peeves (Computer Related)

[IamElectro]

Has anybody ever heard "My internet keeps crashing"

Or the customer who buys new 40gig h/d elsewhere and wants to know why you want to charge $120 to install it the OS and drivers "Thats more than the drive cost." Even worse same customer does not understand why it wont work with his
Packard Bell Pentium 90. Because the guy at the office store said it would.

Yes, one of my favorites. The customer who acts as if they know more than you even though they call or bring the computer to you be fixed and try and tell you how to do it.

Or you unistall the purple monkey software and clean up the system. Then politely tell the person that was causing the problems. They call back a week later with same problems as before thinking you should fix it for free. Even though they had reinstalled the said software because my kids like it.

 

[Silverbullet28]

1. Hot Bar
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[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: dfi

Originally posted by: Rogue
One sentence.

"The internet is down."

I say that all the time. Also, "my internet is down." It's a lot easier than saying "I can't access the internet because my cable modem is having trouble syncing with the headend due to upstream signal issues."

dfi

How about, "I can't access the internet"

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: Gujski
people who say "marry up" when refering to technical processes
It's the term of the year here.

"So they'll do this and he'll do that then we'll marry them up and have our golden egg!!"

People who cut thier nails at thier cube

People who talk super loud on the phone

People who dress slopily at a business casual office. There is this contracter they hired recently who wears these dress shoes slipper type deals with white socks!?

People who cannot ever seem to work a full 40 hour week. "I have to leave 2 hrs early to take my lizard to the vet" "I have a runny nose i have to go to the doctors at 2 pm to see if its mono"

People who try to dump on call to you.
"can you take on call for me this saturday and sunday, we are going to niagra falls" WTF the oncall schedule has been out for 6months in advance why schedul trip for your oncall weekend? but they dont just want to switch whole weeks they just want you to take a couple days.:disgust:

Wow, you have my same pet peeves! They just don't say "Marry Up" here. Also I hate seeing these two words... " tee hee"

 

[ghostman]

People who:

call the computer a CPU, hard drive or server
can't understand when to single and double-click
think email is sent directly to their machine (no, they don't run a mail server)
refer to their hard drive as memory (yes, it is technically, but not in usual computer speak)
dink dat u lik it wen day rite dis way
use foul language in regular sentences (usually on IM)
turn off the computer by pressing power button
rave about linux when they first hear about it...then realize they hate it because it's not Windows
tell me their passwords
need help with Harry Potter, Kazaa or CD copying (not for work, of course)
save their only copy on floppy disk
use 60Hz graphics card setting
expect me to tell them how to do their work for them (shouldn't I get your paycheck if I do?)
use background music and/or fixed background images on webpages
ask to get a copy of department software installed on personal machines
want me to make housecalls for personal computer problems
blame every computer problem on a virus
email a bunch of people without using BCC
end up hitting "Reply All" to those emails
bash MacOS without ever using it
print all pages when they only need a few

 

[amcdonald]

10 minutes ago I realized another one.
People who click a million times thinking their computer will respond faster, and when the computer finally responds they end up closing everything instead of the top program because they are too click-happy. You'll see the same people hitting the elevator button over and over, or after someone else already thi their floor button.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

any computer illiterate foo
people touching my monitor (finger breaking offence)
CD is easy enough and peple know what you are talking about (CD-ROM) = = unnecessary

 

[gwlam12]

Originally posted by: IamElectro
How about the people who think the floppy drive is the hard drive?

Or when you g/f installs the purple monkey software cause its was cute.

Finger prints on monitor bad.

When people have 20 icons in the system tray and want to know why the computer is running slow so you disable half of them and they get mad even though they couldn't tell you what more than 3 or 4 of them are.

Or when someone calls you to help because they are having problems with thier computer and you go over to help them and they stand behind you and do one of 2 things.

1. Every time you click on some thing or type they want to know what your doing and, you know they will never understand.

2.Every time you try to do some thing the tell you you can't do that or your no supposed to do that.

but if they dont ask questions, how do they learn? maybe they want to learn how to fix the problem so next time it happens, they dont have to bug you again.

 

[IamElectro]

Originally posted by: gwlam12

Originally posted by: IamElectro
How about the people who think the floppy drive is the hard drive?

Or when you g/f installs the purple monkey software cause its was cute.

Finger prints on monitor bad.

When people have 20 icons in the system tray and want to know why the computer is running slow so you disable half of them and they get mad even though they couldn't tell you what more than 3 or 4 of them are.

Or when someone calls you to help because they are having problems with thier computer and you go over to help them and they stand behind you and do one of 2 things.

1. Every time you click on some thing or type they want to know what your doing and, you know they will never understand.


2.Every time you try to do some thing the tell you you can't do that or your no supposed to do that.

but if they dont ask questions, how do they learn? maybe they want to learn how to fix the problem so next time it happens, they dont have to bug you again.

Thats just the point they dont't learn when there are people there to correct thier problems.

 

[Crucial]

using teh instead of the
people who ask why should they have a computer built for them instead of buying a dell, compaq, hp
people who buy the most expensive items because they think it's better and defend it mercilessly
brand haters/lovers, hardware and software alike

Edit:
people who don't update their original post with updates
pwned - where the hell did that come from anyway?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Sexually fustrated computer geeks who are overly anal about the topic and it's jargon/vocabulary :evil:

 

[BHeemsoth]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: Eli
Calling the whole case the CPU.

or even worse...when people call there entire computer the "modem"

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: csaddict

pwned - where the hell did that come from anyway?

People would mean to type "owned" and because the p is next to the o, they would misspell. Similar to people using teh instead of the.

 

[Cyberian]

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Originally posted by: Eli
Calling the whole case the CPU.
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People have been doing that for at least 20+ years.
I don't think they will ever stop.

 

[Guild]

1- "Learn the computer"

Does "learn the floor" make sense? Or how about "learn the hat"?

I can become conscious of... or developed a relationship with... but straight out learning a physical entity requires powers that I do not have.

2- Middle aged persons who become intimidated and arrogant by the superior expertise a young adult and/or teenager (who IMO are young adults) may have on any given subject.

As passe and whiny as this will sound, it's "reverse" agism.

 

[dman]

Retail prices on computer parts.

Old / Obsolete parts still being sold at retail prices. [I have some exceptions for things that will only work in obsolete computers... like a SB16 ISA might still be valuable to someone ]

Sales people who make up crap, or simply just were told the wrong things, to sell products.

Worse than that... customers who believe that the salespeople know what they are talking about.

Top of the line processors only separated by +5-7% clockspeed and costing ~double and the people who buy them for 'bragging rights.'

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
*scratches nails on chalkboard*
*lets 42 screaming children into room*

So I says to Bob "Hey, let's do lunch so we can touch base and talk about using cheap gas in our lappys. We can also do a one-to-one on the CD-Rom situation. Hey, check out this article *touches lappy screen with fingers coated w/chicken grease* "

youre going to hell!



























see you there.

 

[jinduy]

my pet peeve is when people ask me to find information that can be easily found on google or yahoo.com, i.e. "what's the phone number to mcdonalds? can you help me?"

another one that pisses me off is, "how do i use program x?" Why dont u give it a try first moron?!?!?!

and another one is, "where do i DL [insert program name here]?"

 

[Cadaver]

The Windows registry!

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: Koing
When people go anywhere near my monitors with a finger! That SERIOUSLY piss's me off.

NO ONE TOUCHES the monitor!

Koing

Yes my best friend does this when she comes over.
I swear to god I'm going to kill her one of these times!!!

 

[flyfish]

"How many Megahertz is in that thing?"

Looking at monitor: "Dang, that's a big computer you got there!"

 

[Papagayo]

When People double-click the icons on quick launch pad..

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: brunswickite

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: brunswickite
when people refer to a CD as a "CD-ROM"

Do you mean the actual disk itself? Because CD-ROM stands for Compact Disk - Read Only Media. So, if someone says "Hey, hand me that CD-ROM over there," they're correct.

My pet peeve is people who sit at a stop sign until I come to a complete stop just to 'make sure' that I'm not going to run the sign. God, soooooooo annoying. Just GO!

i know they are correct but why dont they just say "hey hand me that CD over there" !! WHY do they have to say "CD-ROM"!

I suppose, but a little more accuracy never hurt anyone.

ahhh the irony....maybe they are ensuring a 'little more accuracy' making sure you stop at that stop sign....how fast you riding up to it, if it looks like you aren't going to be stopping I am going to make sure you do myself before I take a chance of getting T-Boned...

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: Papagayo
When People double-click the icons on quick launch pad..

And then click 7 more times because it isn't coming up quick enough for them and wonder why the F* are there 5 Outlook windows opening.

 

[Graphicd00d]

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