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[vampireborg.livejournal.com]

TO: Person on phone
FROM: Me
SUBJECT: -_-;

HIT RELOAD, MORON.

kisses!
me

There are times working at a help desk makes me wonder what the future of the world is if these are our COLLEGE STUDENTS.

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[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

10 years ago, I had to support Macs at a college newspaper. Since the students only came in at night, I'd sit there during the day, reloading software (pre-OSX), and start editing their tear sheets. Fucking amazing they were still in school, after seeing all the grammar and spelling errors. And I'm a college drop out. Go figah!

[vampireborg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, isn't it amazing?

My first job ever was in a Windows 3.11 and UNIX lab. One of my coworkers was a CS major and would bitch about having to learn how to add students to the database. "Why do WE have to know that?!?" He didn't last very long.

[neferde.livejournal.com]

Oh, just wait until they can't get the floppy out of the Mac and decide that sticking a hulking huge knife blade into the drive will magically make it pop out. Or when they can't figure out how to save. Or can't figure out how to double-click to open a document. *shakes her head* College students can be some of the worst when it comes to computers.

[vampireborg.livejournal.com]

I worked in a lab for three years. This is a piece of CAKE compared to some of the things we'd have to do. -_-;

My favorite was the lady I had to PROVE that her file was on her jump drive.

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

I once had to try to convince a guy that we could not, in fact, remove files from his floppy disks from across the room. Though, after the second or third time he accused us of it, I really wanted to. He was convinced we all had something against him and wanted him to fail his classes.

And yeah, there is a way, but we disabled remote access to the floppy drive, so technically we couldn't do it.

[pantherchild.livejournal.com]

~I could usually forgive the college students...it was the professors that always made me cry. How hard is it to fill out a scantron/bubble sheet?!~

[vampireborg.livejournal.com]

I had a lady call one day from HR and tell me that her print wasn't working, and she'd done EVERYthing and why wasn't it working ... oh, wait, would it help if we had paper in the tray?

*sigh*

[katyism.livejournal.com]

Wow, your college students do things on their own? I'm always talking to their parents who are insistent upon doing everything for their college-age kids. I don't understand why these kids LET THEIR PARENTS HAVE THEIR PASSWORDS! WTF???

[vampireborg.livejournal.com]

Because Mommy and Daddy are paying? -_-

Thank $deity this is a community college; at least I don't get many of those.