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[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Funniest (or possibly scariest) overheard comment today:

"No, you need speakers for sound"

I wonder what goes through people heads at times.

*Yes, I know he could have headphones or whatever, but he needs *something* to play the sound through if he wants sound.

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[tadiera.livejournal.com]

Even better, from a call /I/ had.

Me: "Sir, you won't be able to connect while in Safe Mode."
Cust: "But isn't that how I'm supposed to do it? Isn't it better for the computer?"

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Heheheh, people scare me!

[110billion.livejournal.com]

That usericon is great :)

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

I love it! Someone else had it, and creditted wisteria_ - I had to get it myself :D

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

The PC speaker. One place I worked had quite a few Gateways that had a reghack installed so it provided the windows sounds. One guy had the microsoft sound play at every single event. On the pc speaker. You know, the one that beeps and boops? It was horrible. Absolutely horrible.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

*shudder* that is horrible!

Glad we don't have those type of Gateways! (or, any for that matter :P)

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I think it's just a generic hack for machines that don't have sound cards. And it's E-VILE.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I've had that one. This year, even.

"I can't hear any sounds from my PC!"

"What kind of speakers do you have?"

"Err... oh bugger." *click*

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

That's like the guy who was being really rude to me when I asked him to check that the power cord was plugged in -

"Of course it is! Do you think I'm stupid"

"no, sometimes the cleaners might unplug it, can you please just check?" (blame someone else - it strokes their ego, and gives em a way to say they're not stupid :P)

"fiiiiiiiiiiine"

Next thing i hear is *click* of him hanging up when he realises it was unplugged :P

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Whenever I heard "Do you think I'm stupid?", I just send freezing silence down the line. The lack of "no" is a great way to tell them that yes, in fact I do think they are stupid. Really, really stupid with cherries and whipped cream on top.

I was once roped into a management course where they evaluated the relationship between geeks and management (although not named as such) as "management is scared of the geeks because they think the geeks consider them stupid." To which my reponse was "Well, yes. Because we've discovered that on average, they ARE. We could lie about it, but we're not paid that much."

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Management wants to seem smart on technical issues, but their attempts just make them look more ignorant. I have no problem with someone not being well-versed on the issues, so long as they're willing to admit they're not quite up on those areas, and don't bullshit themselves down the wrong path.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

that's it exactly. It's the same way with users. I understand having little knowledge of computers, but as long as they listen to me, and follow instructions, I don't care. In fact, sometimes, they're much better users than people who *do* know a lot!

[kalidor.livejournal.com]

Of course, then you have boxes like these compaqs they make us use at work. There is a shockingly decent speaker buried in the front panneling somewhere that is directly hooked to the soundcard on the motherboard.

In addition to the speaker jacks in the back and headphone jack in the front.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Truuue, none of the systems we have do that though, unless you count laptops, but you can generally see the mesh on the laptops were the speakers are.