Are we ready for modern technology?
Are we ready for modern technology?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 19:45:14 +0600
I saw a lady at work today putting a credit card into her floppy drive
and pulling it out very quickly. I inquired as to what she was doing
and she
said she was shopping on the internet, and they asked for a credit card
number,
so she was using the ATM "thingy".
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I worked with an individual who plugged the power strip back into
itself and for his life couldn't figure why the computer would not turn on.
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1st Person: "Do you know anything about this fax-machine?"
2nd Person: "A little. What's wrong?"
1st Person: "Well, I sent a fax, and the recipient called back to
say all she received was a cover-sheet and a blank page. I tried it
again, and
the same thing happened."
2nd Person: "How did you load the sheet?"
1st Person: "It's a pretty sensitive memo, and I didn't want anyone
else to read it by accident, so I folded it so only the recipient would
open it
and read it."
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I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. "Do
you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have
replaced the
battery in this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. "Do you
think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a
battery for
this?"
"Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?" I asked. "No, just
this remote thingy which she handed to me with the car keys.
As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why
don't you drive over there and check about the batteries...it's a long
walk."
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Tech Support: "What does the screen say now.."
Person: "It says, 'Hit ENTER when ready'."
Tech Support: "Well?"
Person: "How do I know when it's ready?"
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Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day
he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing
paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him.
With
that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on
the
photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.
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One of our servers crashed. I was watching our new system
administrator trying to restore it. He inserted a CD and needed to type
a path
name to a directory named "i386." He started to type it and paused,
asking me
"Where's the key for that line thing?" I asked what he was talking
about, and
he said, "You know, that one that looks like an upside-down exclamation
mark."
I replied, "You mean the letter "i"?" and he said, "Yeah, that's it!"
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I was in a car dealership a while ago when a large motor home was
towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of
repair and
the whole thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister." I asked the
manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had set the cruise
control, then went in back to make a sandwich.
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