Engineers.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

Why did they make 'em F-keys? Clearly nobody thought of phone support when they did this.

How many times will I have to hear "S-8?" "No, dammit."

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[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

I once spent five minutes repeatedly telling someone "F like foxtrot" or "Frank" or other words starting with F. Every time he would type S. It drove me half mad.

[jon787.livejournal.com]

Or have them press F followed by 8.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

"Do you want me to press them both together, or separately?"

"Wha, wait, no?"

[canray.livejournal.com]

I just used the old term, "Function Keys", and told them where they were at the top.

Still, there's a very few mouth-breathers that didn't get it, and I informed them that if they don't want to pay attention, I could be doing other things.

[nem0.livejournal.com]

That's almost as bad as working at a video store and having mumblers who confuse "porn" and "foreign." Can we say "aaawkward"?

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I must admit, that's one I've never heard personally. Thankfully.

And yeah, I'd suggest falling back on "Function Key N" as a first line of defence :)

[nomoremystery.livejournal.com]

Are these the same people who go looking for the 'Any Key' when you say 'press any key'?...

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

They exist, y'know.

[kenbrody.livejournal.com]

How about under Unix, when you want to get a listing of processes running for a certain user ID? You get to tell Bob that the flags to the "ps" command are "f u bob".

[avytech.livejournal.com]

They should be renamed to "R" since nothing really sounds the same. Not sure what "R" would stand for, but at least it'd speed the calls up.