*twitch* Ah, the stupid

[selenay]

Nutty colleage struck again. Ack! All she had to do was turn the damned computer on...

NC: *turns monitor on* My computer is broken.
Sel: *looks at computer terminal* You might need to turn the box on.
NC: But I usually just have to turn on this. *points to monitor power switch*
Sel: *bites tongue* Just try the button with the power sign.
NC: *presses button* It's still broken.
Sel: *looks at computer, which is now displaying the HP start up screen* Nope, it's working. That's the start-up screen.
NC: It doesn't normally do that.
Sel: It should.
NC: Maybe if I turn it off and on again it will work properly. *turns monitor off and on*
Sel: *bites tongue*
NC: *points to login screen* See, that fixed it.
Sel: *draws blood*

She's trying to send me insane. It's the only explanation. The reason why she got so confused? She usually doesn't turn off the computer - she just logs out (I dearly hope) and turns off the monitor. Last night someone logged out for her and turned it off. Cue the confusion. Ack!

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[artifuss.livejournal.com]

*is speechless*

That's just... genius at work obviously, rofl.

[selenay]

She's brillian. Determined to send me to the insane ward, apparently.

[gmul.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, computers haven't been around long and they're not that important to most people's work so there's no point learning how to use them properly... (See also "cars")

[selenay]

*snort* The scary thing is that she apparently has a Mac at home and is, therefore, a computer expert.

I don't even want to think about what that poor Mac goes through...

[paranoidangel]

You have to laugh really. It's that or bang your head against a wall. You could submit it to Computer Stupidities (http://rinkworks.com/stupid/) though.

[selenay]

Yup, laughter is a must. It prevents the homicidal rage.

Mostly.

[alphekka-alpha.livejournal.com]

But has she found the coffee cup holder yet? ;-)
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[selenay]

*g* Our computers don't have 'em. They give us dumbed down terminals, probably to prevent people like Nutty Colleague taking down the entire system.

[alphekka-alpha.livejournal.com]

Wot, no CD drive? What do they give you - ZX Spectrums? - or should that be ZX Spectri? {g}
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[selenay]

Nope, we have 'Wyse terminals'. These are a step down from trusy old ZX Spectrums *g*

They're think clients - in other words, they have enough memory to start and find the network and that's it. All files have to be stored on the network, all programs have to be loaded on the network (wonderful - on busy day it's great fun to type two sentences and watch Word attempt to keep up) and everything is disabled so they're idiot proof. Well, nearly. Nutty Colleague still manages to fox them *sigh*

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Have you suggested that she can scan documents in by holding them up to the monitor and pressing thr 'Print Screen' button?

Hang fire, hun. New job'll turn up soon.

[selenay]

I haven't. However, she did seem to feel that waving the card in front of the computer would magically allow her to download photos from her camera yesterday.

Guh.

Keeping fingers crossed that new job will turn up soon.

[paranoidangel]

Bugger, sorry, that was me

[selenay]

*g* That's OK.

Stupid people exist everywhere, but particularly around computers. I'm thinking about making a T-shirt that says something like "I do have a degree in IT, but that does not qualify me to not kill you if the question is really, really stupid."