At the end of a hard and frustrating shift, a Tech. Support engineer offered this advice to a customer: “I know what the problem is. Take your computer back to the salesman and tell him you want your money back. If he asks why, tell him that you are too stupid to own a computer.”
I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, “Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?”
One of our servers crashed. I was watching our new system administrator trying to restore it. He inserted a CD and needed to type a path name to a directory named “i386.” He started to type it and paused, asking me, “Where’s the key for that line thing?” I asked what he was talking about, and he said, “You know, that one that looks like an upside-down exclamation mark.” I replied, “You mean the letter “i”?” and he said, “Yeah, that’s it!”
Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, “I’m almost out of typing paper. What do I do?” “Just use copier machine paper,” she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.