Alienware?

[rose-welch.livejournal.com]

Okay, so... Our computer at work is also our register, and it runs a POS/database program for that purpose. The company we get it from lets us know when updates are available, and prompts us to install them, much like Microsoft does, which is pretty normal. Unfortunetley for us, our computer only has 512mb in RAM (And this is a recent upgrade.) so it was going pretty slowly. My boss tried to use it while it was updating and complained that it was slow, and wanted to know why. (This after they wouldn't pay for more than an extra stick of 256 to add to what we already had.) I explained that it was downloading some patches. She looked shocked and asked me... (Drumroll, please...)

"Why does it need a patch? Is it addicted to one of those alienwares I hear about?" (She meant spyware...) Okay, so that's my Christmas hilarity for the day. :D

Comments

[snyperwolf.livejournal.com]

"Why does it need a patch? Is it addicted to one of those alienwares I hear about?"

There are so many things wrong with that sentence, I don't even know where to begin. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

[the-reda.livejournal.com]

I hope, I really do, that any kind of program/setting/registry change is Admin only.

[rose-welch.livejournal.com]

No, but except one bitchy manager who's insanely dumb, my coworkers are smart enough to know that they're dumb and they touch nothing outside of the POS program.

[ohmyhead.livejournal.com]

HATE the people that won't cough up the money to properly equip their computers, but LOVE head trauma victims like your boss. The more of them there are, the more job security we have. :D

[jayphi77.livejournal.com]

omg this is when the computer should pack itself up and come back to the factory. that person is too stupid to be near any technology....except maybe a toaster but even that is pushing it.

[jayphi77.livejournal.com]

love your Icon. it's totally either "my head is about to explode" or "don't fuck with me or i'll use my psychic ability to kill you"

[falnfenix]

"oh, and i can kill you with my brain"

[ptstech.livejournal.com]

It's etch-a-sketch time!

[ohmyhead.livejournal.com]

And when I lose it altogether, it looks like this! :D

NICE!

[jayphi77.livejournal.com]

lol that is so like the Heavy Metal movie!

[curmudgn]

ANYone that would mention a POS system (using EITHER sense of the term) and Alienware in the same breath . . .

"Just step away from the screen slowly, and nobody will get hurt."

(And yes, I do know the various differences I've just conflated. My employer owns Alienware.)

[rose-welch.livejournal.com]

Well, really, she has no idea that there's a company called Alienware. I'm sure she thinks that all computers come from Dell, the magical computer overloard. And the POS program we use was designed for users, not techs, so she's even fine with that... Anything else, however...

[cthulu-for-pm.livejournal.com]

I initially read this as "Dell, the magical computer overload."

Well, I thought it was funny.