Stupid Customers

Customer: “I can’t seem to connect to the Internet.”

Tech Support: “Ah, right. What operating system are you running?”

Customer: “Netscape.”

Tech Support: “No, what version of Windows are you using?”

Customer: “Uhhh…Hewlett Packard?”

Tech Support: “No, Right click on ‘My Computer,’ and select properties on the menu.”

Customer: “Your computer? It’s my computer!”

Tech Support: “No sir, I mean the little picture called ‘My Computer’ on your desktop.”

Customer: “I don’t see an icon called that on my desktop. I do see one called that on my screen.”

Tech Support: “Right, just right click that, and choose Properties from the menu.”

Customer: “Right click?”

Tech Support: “Just a moment, sir.” (mutes phone) “AAAAAAAARGH.”

Stupid Customers

A call to the technical support line for a cell phone company:

Customer: “The numbers on my caller ID are going blurry!”

Tech Support: “Sir, I think you might just need a new battery.”

Customer: “Well, can you tell me how to change it?”

Tech Support: “Excuse me?”

Customer: “How am I supposed to change this battery?”

Tech Support: “Sir, all you need to do is replace the battery. It’s not that hard.”

Customer: “Can you send out a repairman to do it for me?”

What? He had to be kidding.

Tech Support: “We normally don’t send out repairmen to change batteries.”

Customer: “What? I can’t change this battery by myself!”

After a few more minutes of angry yelling on his part that we would not be sending a repairman to go change the battery for him, he got on the phone with supervisor and demanded I be fired.

Needless to say, I wasn’t.

Stupid Customers

I worked at a help desk for a bank. I had received many calls from a lady who insisted on drinking coffee by her computer, even though she tended to spill it. One day the lady called yet again.

Customer: “My keyboard isn’t working.”

Tech Support: “What’s wrong with it?”

Customer: “It won’t respond.”

Tech Support: “Did you spill coffee on it again?”

Customer: “I MAY have.”

Stupid Customers

When I worked in a computer store we got a batch of paper shredders and sold them all pretty fast. One customer bought one along with a custom-built computer. He was a smart fellow, as he knew just what he wanted and even asked for the installation disks to be included in case something went wrong.

Happy to oblige, we gave him all the disks. The next day, he complained that we didn’t give him the driver disk for the shredder.

The shredder, under no circumstances, required any connection to the computer. There was just a power switch. I explained it to him, and he shrugged it off when he realized his mistake and left. After that, I went into the back room and laughed till it hurt.