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[combat-taco.livejournal.com]

A little while ago I had to drive to Fullerton to take an iBook apart in order to salvage the hard drive for data recovery. I usually don't service OC, but I went there because a mac was needed to do the job, and I was the only tech in the semi-general area to have one. The plan was to attach his hard drive to my iBook via an adapter I have and burn him a cd for his files. Taking it apart took nearly an hour, and was a harrowing experience. Probably fifty screws, it was insane. I DO NOT recommend you ever bother to try it. Anyway, I copied his data to my machine, burned him a CD, and took great care to show him that I had deleted his files from my computer. I taught him how to change the file types so a windows machine could read it, then I took off, and that was that.

Next day. I'm out in Long Beach working on a computer for a pro skateboarder, and Alex, my technical supervisor, calls me and tells me that whats his name from orange county is on the other line SCREAMING HIS LUNGS OUT that I "Stole his data and I'm going to copyright and sell it for my own personal gain" and that I'm a "communist who hates my conservative beliefs".

Say what? How would he gather (QUITE incorrectly) that I'm a communist? Why would I care? I didn't even know he was a conservative; he's a public school teacher who uses a mac and lives in a shitty apartment with three people in fucking Fullerton. All of this makes Alex and I laugh our asses off. I told him exactly what I did, and he told the guy to calm the fuck down essentially. He called back three minutes later and went off on someone else at the office, saying he was going to sue me and the company.

Then the funniest part came out. He thought I was a communist because of my desktop background on my personal mac. Its the same as my usericon, Peter-Che Guevara!!! Anyone with a half a fucking brain who knows who Che Guevara is would know that THIS IS NOT HIM YOU FUCKING MORON, its making fun of him.

I'M A COMMIE DATA STEALING PINKO BECAUSE MY IBOOK HAS A PHOTOSHOP OF PETER GRIFFIN ON IT.

Comments

[anivair.livejournal.com]

When people call my company threatning to sue us for stupid crap like that I general encourage them. I'm the only employee we have that encourages litigation. bring it on. If I can be drug out of work for a day to testify that yes, you do in fact owe us ten bucks . . . more power ot you.

[combat-taco.livejournal.com]

Thats a good point, I should have told them to do that... hell I wouldve gone in on my day off to see that shit :)

[anivair.livejournal.com]

FYI: my favorite che image ever is a normal looking shirt with che on it (as many people wear anymore) and below it in big bold letters it says, "I have no fucking idea who this is". It's wonderful.

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahahaahaha!

[firewallender.livejournal.com]

My favorite Che shirt is one that looks like the regular shirt, and below Che says, "This shirt brought to you by capitalism."

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

HAH!

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

How about

"COMMIES AREN'T COOL"

?

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

A communist who is going to copyright and sell data? Sounds like capitalism to me.

[taiki.livejournal.com]

this is why I tend to try to keep the backgrounds on any portable electronics ... safe. Of course, I really do think that he's a dipshit, but it's dippy people like him that make me think twice about these kinds of things.

(I was thinking about having the Soviet flag as my PSP's background. that just seemed like a bad idea after I properly photoshopped one...)

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

I do (some) tech support at a university, for the history department. (I'm also their webmaster, but that's a different story)

One of the lecturers was having problems with her machine, and I sent in a trouble ticket to the main help desk because I was already overloaded. They sent over a techie who booted her computer, then refused to do any more work on it.

The lecturer was teaching a course on the history of witchcraft (witchtrials, etc). Her windows desktop was red with a five pointed star on it ... with the single point up (a wiccan symbol) as opposed to the two points up (a satanic symbol). There's a lot more involved in the symbology, but none of it needs to be discussed here.

Anyway, his recommendation was that the whole machine needed to be reimaged - on the basis of this single desktop background. What makes this even more of a wtf? is that he was wearing a heavy-metal tshirt at the time.

so, I resubmitted the trouble ticket, and went in to the office and set the desktop background to something else. A different tech came out, fixed the problem, and went away. No reimaging required. I went back to the office and restored the desktop.

Yeah, I guess this is more a co-workers_suck rant rather than customers, but it still boggles my mind.

[taiki.livejournal.com]

Wow.

That's crazy andstupid.

Considering that one point up is a christian symbol...

(Each point represents where Jesus was nailed and the top represented the crown of thorns...)

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

at first glance it actually looked like a mix of michael moore and che, lol

[mtlchick.livejournal.com]

Good lord, can you imagine how angry that idiot would have been in that case?

[frit.livejournal.com]

I thought Michael Moore as well. Heh

[pokemyeye.livejournal.com]

hahha thats great

Holy god damn

[elcaminohippie.livejournal.com]

You are SO farking lucky I was putting the coke down when I saw your icon. Bathing my 17inch flat panel in carbonated syrup would have probably resulted in my termination. Jesus that's funny!

Re: Holy god damn

[pokemyeye.livejournal.com]

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA


glad you didnt ruin it

[scottish-alth.livejournal.com]

taco, I must admit, that it is fairly convincing I mean, its a red background with a human face on it. I mean thats only happened to Che himself... but fark. I could tell in seconds... I think I watch Family Guy too much.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Pity you didn't snap a photo of the nutball... I wonder how he would have reacted to a Che-Shop'd version of himself?

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Damn, now that's retarded. Or should I say, Petarded?

[combat-taco.livejournal.com]

You are from petoria? :P

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm from Christia.