I swear to god, this actually happened to me...

[guitarguy1980.livejournal.com]

I've heard people post about this scenario, but never believed that it actually happened, until this happened to me.

Recap: In ur call center, fixin ur computers.

Me: Me, the overworked, underappreciated, highly stressed tech.
DA: The overwhelmingly dim Dumbass

Me: "Blankity blank blank call center, this is guitarguy1980, how can I help you?"
DA: "Um, my power supply isn't working.
Me: "Ok, are you plugging your PC into a UPS?" 
DA: "Ugh, yeah, I guess."
Me: "Alright, what brand of UPS is it?"
DA: "Um, RadioShack? That's where I got it."
Me: *Perplexed* "You bought an uninteruptable power supply at Radio Shack? Did the office purchase this for you?"
DA: "No, I bought this myself and brought it from home."

Perplexed, I pause for a moment to ponder.  Do you see where this is going yet?
 
Me: "Is this a surge protector?"
DA: "Yeah, that's what it is! It's not working."
Me: "Ok, do you have it plugged into the wall?"
DA: "No, the power is out." 

At this point, I'm ready to ask if this is someone prank calling me, but I decide to play along and continue the conversation.

Me: Where do you have it plugged in?"
DA: "Into itself. It's not working." 

The dumbass had a surge protector plugged into itself. 

Me: "Um...yeah, that's right. If it's not plugged into the wall, it's not going to work. If the power is out, it's not going to work. If there's no external source of power, those things won't work."
DA: "Are you sure?"
Me: "As death and taxes."
DA: "Oh... ok. Thanks! *click* 

I'm hoping, HOPING that this person actually bought an expensive surge protector and thought it was a UPS, because otherwise, this dumbsicle thinks that surge protectors power themselves.  I'm guessing with tiny gerbils and exercise wheels inside.  Yeah, that's it.

Comments

[garpu.livejournal.com]

I have not words.

[dejana.livejournal.com]

...wow. That's one of those famous story things. I never thought it actually happened for real to anyone...

[jjjiii]

I think you should tell him to take it back to the store and ask them for an Undisputable Power Supply instead.

[jecook]

Heh.

In the interests of curiosity, I tried that with one of the the 300VA backups I have lying around. (the whole plug it into stself to see if it can feed tiself) didn't work, stayed on battery power the whole time.

[vortex.livejournal.com]

HaHaaaa!

Crank Yankers...we got you!...

[ladynisa.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've had both of those calls individually, but not wrapped up into one. Damn, yo. Have a drink.

[kedemel.livejournal.com]

I've had that happened...oy vey.

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Undisputable Power Supply

*golf clap*

[q-bomb79.livejournal.com]

yeah my husband got a call very similar to that...

It just scares me because these people are actually out there...DRIVING!

[anamacha.livejournal.com]

+2

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

::blinks::

Um. That wasn't a prank call? ::blinks::

I hope this person didn't have children to pass this stupidity onto.

[talisantia.livejournal.com]

*L* I totally sympathize. I spent had a call one day with a guy who started off with 'I work at a radio station, so I'm really GOOD with electronics!' And he then spent the next 45 minutes trying to plug his surround system into ITSELF and wondering why he wasn't getting audio from his cable box.

The degree of human stupidity in this world scares me, sometimes.

[255-255-255-0.livejournal.com]

What a retard !

[samwize.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've gotten that call a couple of times. I've gotten the broken cupholder call. I've gotten the "my footpedal doesn't work" call. ... Yeah.

J.R. "Bob" Dobbs had a saying: "You want to know the REAL secret of True Power? Well, y'know how dumb the average guy is? Well HALF of them are dumber than THAT."

[darkblade1.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. Wow, just wow.

Drink to your hearts content.

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

Oh come on, SOMEONE needs to program their VCR for the poor fuckers ...

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

I often wondered what would happen if you plugged a UPS into itself ...

not in an infinite energy kind of way, obviously, but more whether it would do anything interesting like short out or catch fire.