don't you just hate these requests

[pixilated-serra.livejournal.com]

HI SERRRA,

 

HOW DO I TURN ON THE NUM LOCK AUTOMATIC UPON START UP?

 

THANKS

1. my name is not SERRRRRRRRRRA, just two R's will suffice
2. NUM LOCK ≠ CAPS LOCK
3. HEADDESK


when this is the first thing i see in the morning i just know it's going to be an awesome day. this on top of the fact that i have a broken printer and surprise new users starting monday that i JUST found out about. now its time to pull a cubicle / workstation / new fuser out of my.... what?

happy friday!!!!!!!!

Do I scream or just hit him?

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

Me: just browse to the <shared drive name> and look in the software folder, the file is called XXXXX.xxx
Absolute Luser :  No it's not there
Me: Are you sure you are in <shared drive name> and in the software folder?
Absolute Luser :  Yes it's not there
Me: Checks, I can see it, it is there
Absolute Luser : No it's not there
Me: OK so what can you see
Absolute Luser : <reads out several folder names>
Me: Ahhhh OK,.................NOW SCROLL DOWN !!!!!!!!!!!
                        you you Moron !
< 255_255_255_0   WANTS TO SCREAM>

Wait, what?

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Ad-Aware (along with SpybotSD) has LONG been on the thumbdrive I carry *everywhere* for obvious reasons.

Yesterday, I went to run it and it failed to update. *damnit*

So I go to check the site. Hey new version! Cool!





The free version is ad supported now? Wait, what?



Correction

Evil backhoe.

[wxgeek.livejournal.com]

The backhoe has eaten our fiber link to our Aberdeen and Klamath Falls markets. :( I just wanted to mention our frustration.

nomnomnom

Pertaining to fools and horses

[rorted.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure how to introduce this story, so rather than trying I'll just start at the beginning.

( Contender for cock-up of the year enclosed... )

At first I laughed, then I felt like crying. Now I just feel numb, and dirty for having played even a minor role in such a monumental occasion of stupid.

I need a drink.

Glutton for punishment

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

I clearly have some sort of problem. On Friday afternoons, after about 5, the place I was working today breaks out the wine and sits down for a drink and a natter. I would have been more than welcome to join in.

Was I joining in? I was not. I was (voluntarily) helping a guy in the New York office fix the Solaris box he had just hosed.

I think it must be a sickness or something.

Heaven

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

Found this on the wall at work...

Last night as I lay sleeping
I died or so it seemed,
Then I went to heaven
But only in my dream.

Up there St Peter met me
Standing at the pearly gates,
He said "I must check your record
Please stand here and wait".

He turned and said "Your record
Is covered with terrible flaws,
On earth I see you rallied
For every losing cause.

I see that you drank alcohol
And smoked and used drugs too,
Fact is, you've done everything
A good person should never do.
We can't have people like you up here
Your life was full of sin".

Then he read the last of my record
Took my hand and said "Come in".
He led me up to the big boss and said "Take him in and treat him well,
He used to work in a call centre He's done his time in hell".

So I thought I'd share it with the rest of you.