I was working in a large Western National Park and a woman who was a notorious chain smoker came out of her office and lit up a cigarette. I said, “What are you up to?.” She took a long drag off of her cigarette and with smoke coming out of her mouth and nose said, “I just came out for a little fresh air”!
So, this chick that works in Tech Support with us, let’s call her Elaine, is doing training, and telling all the students what to do in case of a “one-zero” error. We pulled her aside to explain that that actually said I/O error (as in Input/Output) but she continued on with her teaching, explaining that it had to be a “one-zero” error, since computers communicate in binary code, so everything had to be either a 1 or a 0. I think its obvious who “1” and who is a “zero.” Duh!
A while ago I was received a call from a woman who said that Eudora Pro was showing her password. I found this to be strange, because when you type it in your password in Eudora, it displays asterisks. So when I went over to her office and looked at her desktop. She had renamed the Eudora Pro icon with her password.
My school district decided to require us school psychologists to do all our reports on laptops and print from a single printer. After a few months the laptop they provided me ceased to work with the printer. I spoke with the IT Manager.
IT Manager: “I don’t know if the problem is a hardware problem or a software problem.”
Me: “Ok.”
IT Manager: “So I can’t solve the problem now.”
Me: “When can you solve it?”
IT Manager: “I told you: I don’t know if it is a hardware problem or a software problem. I can’t fix it until I know.”
Me: “Ok. I need to print my reports. When will I be able to?”
IT Manager: (angrily) “Look, if it’s a hardware problem I can’t fix it! I don’t know if it is a hardware or a software problem.”
I made several more attempts to communicate with the IT manager about this problem over the next few weeks, only to find myself in the same conversation. Finally, I sent a memo to my boss, explaining that I was having difficulty getting tech support and could not print out my reports. My boss wrote back:
Boss: “Please do not harass the IT Manager anymore. He has already explained to you that he doesn’t know whether it is a software problem or a hardware problem.”
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