July
7th 2003
Sam
is the helpdesk guy here at The Daily Object...here are some of...
Sam's Sad Silicon Stories!
Sam's Sad Silicon Stories!
STRAIGHT
FROM THE TECHNICAL HELPDESK...
"Hi you're through to ol' Sam how can I help you?"
"Hi you're through to ol' Sam how can I help you?"
Frank: "No, I'm alone right now."
Caller: "No, I'm reading an error message to you."
Caller:"Is that 'f' as in 'fix'?"
Sam:
"Hi you're through to Ol' Sam who am I speaking to please?"
Caller:"You're joking."
Sam: "No, I need to know so I can log the call.
What's your name, please?"
Caller:"You're joking!"
Sam: "No, really! I need to know."
Caller:"No...." (chuckles) "My name is
Yuriy Jokin. I'm Russian. I know what my name means in English. It's very
confusing!"
Caller:"No."
Sam: "Ok, well do you know what COM port your modem uses?"
Caller:"No."
Sam: "Uh, do you have any other serial devices that plug into the machine, like a graphics pad, external modem, etc?"
Caller:"I don't know."
Sam: "Uh. Well, I'm gonna have to guess here, but your mouse should be on COM 1, and your modem is probably set for COM 2."
Caller: "What do you mean guess? I told you everything you need to know! Now quit messing around and just tell me what I need to do to fix it!"
Sam: "Why do you want to do that Tammy?"
Tammy: "I want to free up desk space Sam."
Caller: (THUMP! Pause.) "No, that didn't help."
Caller: "Of course! I was the main tech at ACER Africa!!"
Sam: "Ok. Have you loaded the display drivers for Windows 95?"
Caller: "Where is it?"
Sam: "It's on one of the black disks which you've received with your PC."
Caller: "Oh! I see it. There's three of them. On one is written OS/2, the other is Windows 3.11, and the last one has Windows 95 written on it. Which one do I use?"
thanks to:
http://rinkworks.com/stupid/