[identity profile] darkblade1.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] techrecovery
How can you tell when it's a bad day at work?

When your customer types in "forwardslash" instead of "/" when you're trying to do "ipconfig/release"

*headdesk* Anyone have a gun to kill me with?

Date: 2005-04-24 12:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brutalentropy.livejournal.com
I had the same problem earlier

I think after the third time I said "To the left of the shift key, same key as the question mark" he finally got the damn point.

Date: 2005-04-24 12:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zig-mover.livejournal.com
Oh god.. my brother does that all the time.

It's more irritating when i'll ask someone to type in "h t t p colon slash slash" and they ask which one is the slash. THE ONE YOU ALWAYS USE, ASS.

Date: 2005-04-24 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mjkauffman.livejournal.com
Wow, I'm amazed that they could spell 'forwardslash'

Date: 2005-04-24 12:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com
My personal variant is using an F-key. I get people that will press F and then the number that I specified. F is for fuckwit :).

Date: 2005-04-24 04:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katyism.livejournal.com
and how fun is that damn tilde, eh?

Date: 2005-04-24 06:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] igz00.livejournal.com
I spent probably 20 minutes on the phone with my mom trying to explain this to her.... and every time she would swear she was typing it in correctly and it would give her an unknown command error...

My directions:
"Type in ipconfig space the slash that is on the question mark key then type release."


in the end it turned our she was typing "ipconfig \release\"


::sigh:: worse than the customers...

Date: 2005-04-24 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 200iso.livejournal.com
i've had a customer ask me were the "wordslash" is located.

Date: 2005-04-25 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bekscilla.livejournal.com
wait, isn't it "forward splash"?

I love the ones who insist they know where the backslash is, then it doesn't work and you have to tell them agaaain which key is backslash

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