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[chaoslore.livejournal.com]

Me: Okay, go ahead and click on "I forgot my password" and read to me the hint.
EU: It says the hint is my name.
Me: Okay, go ahead and enter that.
EU: What should I put in there?

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[jagwire.livejournal.com]

Oh bullshit...

This can't be true, can it?

*curls up in foetal position and sobs at the futility of it all*

[zercool.livejournal.com]

It absolutely can be true... I've experienced similar things on a near-daily basis...

[chaobell]

*headdesk*

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

I had someone ask me what to put into the 'email address' field in OE yesterday. I'm losing hope for this species..

[chaoslore.livejournal.com]

Isn't that where you type what you want to say?

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

I once spent 45 minutes trying to comprehend what the heck was going wrong when it turned out luser was typing the message into the "cc" field.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

I ask for an email address and usually get "211 oak st" or something like that...

Hello? Computer? and I just asked you the physical address where the computer is located a minute ago? verbatim?

[justsomegurl.livejournal.com]

user types "my name"
user "I typed it in, why isn't it working?"
*lol*
that would take the cake

[bottleopener.livejournal.com]

At that point just tell them to get a big box, pack the computer into it and send it back to where they got it. If they ask why, tell them because they are TOO STUPID to own or use a computer.

Botte

[chaoslore.livejournal.com]

If only my job were that simple.

[starblazr.livejournal.com]

if I could bash the people's skulls in every single time I heard that.

that's normally said by the tech-support newbies or the technology-ignorant themselves.

[chaoslore.livejournal.com]

its also been WAY overused