You're IT, you can do anything...

[billysapphire.livejournal.com]

I work for a medium sized retailer.  We support registers, location PCs, network printers and the like.  We got an email from one of our location managers wanting to know why we hadn't emailed the scanner to her yet.  We are talking a tabletop scanner to use for scanning documents.  She really thought that we would be able to EMAIL the scanner to her.  I had to deal with her again today.  The concept of Windows, desktops, icons, etc are completely foreign to her and I doubt it will ever get better. 


What's really funny is the CFO comes running around the corner yelling, "Well, when the hell are you guys going to email that scanner to her! And when are you going to be able to email the registers to the locations so we don't have to pay FedEx to deliver them?!?!" 

He was kidding of course but it was funny because he usually gets like that when he is mad and initially I thought he was serious.

I am seriously amazed at how people really just say things that even if you're not that savvy, are just plain stupid.

Comments

[tanetris.livejournal.com]

"RE: Unreasonable Demand

Attached please find the energy matrix pattern for a scanner. You will need a replicator to constitute this energy matrix pattern into an actual scanner. Until such time as replicator technology becomes declassified, we are also shipping a complimentary loaner scanner via normal package delivery services.

Thank you for your patience.

[ATTACHMENT:tabletop scanner.tng]"

[kenbrody.livejournal.com]

"Why can't you e-mail me the replicator, too?"

[tanetris.livejournal.com]

Response 1: "I would be executed for treason."
Response 2: "Please google the term 'catch 22'"
Response 3: "Replicators are sold separately. Please forward $200,000.00 to my Swiss bank account."
Response 4: "Sorry about that. Here's a replicator and a simple energy matrix pattern for testing and calibration. [ATTACHMENT1:replicator.tng] [ATTACHMENT2:nuke.tng]"
Response 5: *weeps quietly*

[ptstech.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just wow.

[confectionqueen.livejournal.com]

seconded.
I can't even think of a possible witty reply to the email..
It's so....

How are these people surviving in a world filled with technology??

[snyperwolf.livejournal.com]

What's really funny is the CFO comes running around the corner yelling, "Well, when the hell are you guys going to email that scanner to her! And when are you going to be able to email the registers to the locations so we don't have to pay FedEx to deliver them?!?!"

He was kidding of course but it was funny because he usually gets like that when he is mad and initially I thought he was serious.

That sounds like a cool boss. Even if he does occasionally get mad for real.

[erunamiryene.livejournal.com]

Every time I have to hear a "superior" come in, who's gone to college, and who inevitably has the most retarded questions I've ever heard ...

... I'm going to read this post and feel a little better. XD

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

I used to get really pissed off about people calling me, KNOWING that their internet access was down, wanting to know why their email didn't work.

::facepound::

That hasn't happened in a few years, but it used to be CONSTANT.

[kenbrody.livejournal.com]

Because to them, "Internet" == "Accessing web pages", and "email" is something else entirely?

[spitfire-sam.livejournal.com]

Yes. That's it exactly. And people still think this way, as recently as a year ago, evidenced by me getting those same calls when I worked for a local ISP.

*facepalm*

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Believe me, if they ever worked out a way to email physical objects, I'd blow all my bandwidth on pizza and coke *nods*

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

Not ale and whores?

[taleya.livejournal.com]

No, no ale and whores.

Seemed a bit hypocritical considering I have zero interest in RPGs or MMORPGs

Besides, I like pizza and coke.

[pauamma]

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