IT jokes
A woman called the Canon help desk with a problem with
her printer. The tech asked her if she was "running it
under Windows." The woman responded, "No, my desk is
next to the door. But that's a good point. The man
sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window,
and his is working fine."
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Tech Support: "OK Bob, let's press the control and
escape keys at the same time. That brings up a task
list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter
'P' to bring up the Program Manager."
Customer: "I don't have a 'P'."
Tech Support: "On your keyboard, Bob."
Customer: "What do you mean?"
Tech Support: "'P' on your keyboard, Bob."
Customer: "I'm not going to do that!"
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Overheard in a computer shop:
Customer: "I'd like a mouse mat, please."
Salesperson: "Certainly sir, we've got a large
variety."
Customer: "But will they be compatible with my
computer?"
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I once received a fax with a note on the bottom to fax
the document back to the sender when I was finished
with it, because he needed to keep it.
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Customer in computer shop: "Can you copy the Internet
onto this disk for me?"
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Customer: "So that'll get me connected to the
Internet, right?"
Tech Support: "Yeah."
Customer: "And that's the latest version of the
Internet, right?"
Tech Support: "Uhh...uh...uh...yeah."
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Tech Support: "All right...now double-click on the
File Manager icon."
Customer: "That's why I hate this Windows - because of
the icons - I'm a Protestant, and I don't believe in
icons."
Tech Support: "Well, that's just an industry term sir.
I don't believe it was meant to-"
Customer: "I don't care about any 'Industry Terms'. I
don't believe in icons."
Tech Support: "Well...why don't you click on the
'little picture' of filing cabinet...is 'little
picture' OK?"
Customer: [click]
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Customer: "My computer crashed!"
Tech Support: "It crashed?"
Customer: "Yeah, it won't let me play my game."
Tech Support: "All right, hit Control-Alt-Delete to
reboot."
Customer: "No, it didn't crash - it crashed."
Tech Support: "Huh?"
Customer: "I crashed my game. That's what I said
before. I crashed my spaceship and now it doesn't
work."
Tech Support: "Click on 'File,' then 'New Game.'"
Customer: [pause] "Wow! How'd you learn how to do
that?"
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Got a call from a woman said that her laser printer
was having problems: the bottom half of her printed
sheets were coming out blurry. It seemed strange that
the printer was smearing only the bottom half. I
walked her through the basics, then went over and
printed out a test sheet.
It printed fine. I asked her to print a sheet, so she
sent a job to the printer. As the paper started coming
out, she yanked it out and showed it to me. I told her
to wait until the paper came out on its own. Problem
solved.
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I had been doing Tech Support for Hewlett-Packard's
Deskjet division for about a month when I had a
customer call with a problem I just couldn't solve.
She could not print yellow.
All the other colors would print fine, which truly
baffled me because the only true colors are cyan,
magenta, and yellow.
For instance, green is a combination of cyan and
yellow, but green printed fine. Every color of the
rainbow printed fine except for yellow.
I had the customer change ink cartridges. I had the
customer delete and reinstall the drivers. Nothing
worked. I asked my coworkers for help; they offered no
new ideas.
After over two hours of troubleshooting, I was about
to tell the customer to send the printer in to us for
repair when she asked quietly, "Should I try printing
on a piece of white paper instead of this yellow
paper?"
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And another user was all confused about why the cursor
always moved in the opposite direction from the
movement of the mouse. She also complained that the
buttons were difficult to depress. She was very
embarrassed when we asked her to rotate the mouse so
the tail pointed away from her.
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This guy calls in to complain that he gets an "Access
Denied" message every time he logs in. It turned out
he was typing his username and password in capital
letters.
Tech Support: "OK, let's try once more, but use lower
case letters."
Customer: "Ooh, I only have capital letters on my
keyboard."
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Email from a friend:
" CanYouFixTheSpaceBarOnMyK
eyboard?"
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My friend was on duty in the main lab on a quiet
afternoon. He noticed a young woman sitting in front
of one of the workstations with her arms crossed
across her chest, staring at the screen. After about
15 minutes he noticed that she was still in the same
position, only now she was impatiently tapping her
foot. He asked if she needed help and she replied
"It's about time! I pressed the F 1 button over twenty
minutes ago!"