Got this over email and it made me burst out laughing. One of those gems you get from forward mails. Let me know if you laughed too. If you do, you must have worked as IT support sometime in your life.
Take a look.
Customer: "I've been ringing 0800 2100 for two days and can't get through to enquiries, can you help?".
Operator: "Where did you get that number from, sir?"..
Customer: "It was on the door to the Travel Centre".
Operator: "Sir, they are our opening hours".
Customer: "Can you give me the telephone number for Jack?"
Operator: "I'm sorry, sir, I don't understand who you are talking about".
Customer: "On page 1, section 5, of the user guide it clearly states that I need to unplug the fax machine from the AC wall socket and telephone Jack before cleaning. Now, can you give me the number for Jack?"
Operator: "I think you mean the telephone point on the wall".
On another occasion, a man making heavy breathing sounds from a phone box told a worried operator:
"I haven't got a pen, so I'm steaming up the window to write the number on".
Operator: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop".
Customer: "OK".
Operator: "Did you get a pop-up menu?".
Customer: "No".
Operator: "OK. Right-Click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No".
Operator: "OK, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?".
Customer: "Sure. You told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'".
Operator: "OK. In the bottom left hand side of the screen, can you see the 'OK' button displayed?"
Customer: "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"
Customer: "I deleted a file from my PC last week and I have just realised that I need it. If I turn my system clock back two weeks will I have my file back again?".
Operator: "Ridge Hall, computer assistance; may I help you?"
Customer: "Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect."
Operator: "What sort of trouble??"
Customer: "Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away."
Operator: "Went away?"
Customer: "They disappeared."
Operator: "Hmm So what does your screen look like now?"
Customer: "Nothing."
Operator: "Nothing??"
Customer: "It's blank; it won't accept anything when I type."
Operator: "Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out??"
Customer: "How do I tell?"
Operator: "Can you see the C: prompt on the screen??"
Customer: "What's a sea-prompt?"
Operator: "Never mind, can you move your cursor around the screen?"
Customer: "There isn't any cursor: I told you, it won't accept anything I type."
Operator: "Does your monitor have a power indicator??"
Customer: "What's a monitor?"
Operator: "It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on??"
Customer: "I don't know."
Operator: "Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that??"
Customer: "Yes, I think so."
Operator: "Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it's plugged into the wall.
Customer: "Yes, it is."
Operator: "When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one??"
Customer: "No."
Operator: "Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable."
Customer: "Okay, here it is."
Operator: "Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged securely into the back of your computer."
Customer: "I can't reach."
Operator: "Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is??"
Customer: "No."
Operator: "Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over??"
Customer: "Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle - it's because it's dark."
Operator: "Dark??"
Customer: "Yes - the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window.
Operator: "Well, turn on the office light then."
Customer: "I can't."
Operator: "No? Why not??"
Customer: "Because there's a power failure."
(photo by Mzelle Biscotte)
WTFish
the last one damn chun. LOL
other than air traffic controller, I bet the next tough-est job would be call center operator!