Ah, teachers. Gotta love 'em

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

One of our science teachers sent a student to the office today asking for a "male to male USB cable", whilst brandishing a VGA cable. I went "eh???" and followed the student back to the classroom. The teacher (who I have the dubious honour of being a distant relation of) started talking to me about USB ports and said "of course, there's only one on this laptop". So I lifted the laptop up and pointed out the three other USB ports on the opposite side of the laptop...

Clearly she didn't inherit the family's technical genes :)

Foot in mouth error

[harry-whodunnit.livejournal.com]

"We also have ergonomic keyboards if you prefer the bent ones."

Could anyone BUT me say that to what turned out to be the only openly gay man in the office? It was about ten minutes before work could continue.

Memes

[blaue-katze.livejournal.com]

I work at a help desk.
Today, someone called in to ask,
"I JUST ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE COMPUTER. IS THIS BAD?"
It was the only prank call I've gotten so far, surprisingly.. :D

(no subject)

[techieb0y.livejournal.com]

After much back-and-fourthing with a vendor, we have determined that:

1. The program crashed because the database was corrupt.
2. The database corrupted because the program crashed.

*headdesk*