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Wrigs
03-21-2004, 07:23 PM
> The scary thing is that these people are allowed to
> vote.
>
>
>
> ONE.....
>
> Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the
> menu that you could have an order
> of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half
> dozen nuggets.
> "We don't have
> half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the
> counter. "You don't?" I
> replied. "We
> only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So
> I can't order a half dozen
> nuggets, but I can order six?" "That's right." So I
> shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.
>
> TWO....
>
> I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a
> few items and the lady behind
> me put her things on the belt close to mine. I
> picked up one of those "dividers"
> that they keep by the cash register and placed it
> between our things so they
> wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all
> of my items, she picked up the
> "divider," looking it all over for the bar code so
> she could scan it.
> Not finding
> the bar code she said to me, "Do you know how much
> this is?" I said to her
> "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that
> today." She said "OK,"
> and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what
> had just happened.
>
> THREE....
>
> A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into
> her floppy drive and pulling it
> out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she was
> doing, she said she was
> shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a
> credit card number, so she was
> using the ATM "thingy."
>
> FOUR....
>
> I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping
> beside her car. "Do you need some
> help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have
> replaced the battery to this
> remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car.
> Do you think they
> (pointing to
> a distant convenience store) would have a battery to
> fit this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do
> you have an alarm, too?" I asked."No, just this
> remote thingy," she
> answered,
> handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the
> key and manually
> unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you drive over there and
> check about the batteries.
> It's a long walk."
>
> FIVE....
>
> Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too
> swift. One day she
> 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," the
> secretary told her. With that,
> the intern took her last remaining blank piece o
> paper, put it on the photocopier
> and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.
>
> SIX....
>
> I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large
> motor home was towed into the
> garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of
> repair and the
> whole thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister." I asked
> the manager what had
> happened. He told me that the driver had set the
> "cruise control" and
> then went in the back to make a sandwich.
>
> SEVEN....
>
> My neighbor works in the operations department in
> the central office of a large
> bank. Employees in the field call him when they have
> problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in
> one of the branch banks who had
> this question: "I've got smoke coming from the back
> of my terminal.
> Do you guys have a fire downtown?"
>
> EIGHT....
>
> Police in Radnor, Pa., interrogated a suspect by
> placing a metal colander on his
> head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy
> machine. The message
> "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the
> copy button each time they
> thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth.
> Believing the "lie
> detector"was working, the suspect confessed.
>
> ......Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.

Chairman_Kaga
03-21-2004, 07:52 PM
If any of those are actually true they should be culled from the herd.


Although I'm pretty sure a few aren't as I have heard them in various forms over the years.

Reminds me of some of the Help Desk calls that I've either heard or read somewhere.


My favorite request for help (I'm not on help desk but I do support some software) this week was, "We ran some jobs out of order in <our batch scheduling package>, can you reset them so they'll run tonight?"

My reply, "Sure, which of the 1600 jobs that run daily did you run or should I check them all?"

I've sent a link to people who I knew would "get it" recently at work. It's to the BOFH. I also added that to my email sig until my boss asked me to remove it.

BOFH rules Not sure if I ever posted this before. BOFH (http://bofh.ntk.net/*******.html) Not sure if I ever posted that before or not. Cracks me up though b/c I started in the IT field as a 2nd and 3rd shift operator. Sadly, the computer operators are under paid and they are gods of their domain. ROOT (domain admin for you NT folks or SYSTEM access for you VMS folks) access to everywhere AND they often work alone on the off shifts.

The early entries are definitely dated to the mainframe/UNIX shops but it still kills me.

BOFH (http://bofh.ntk.net/*******.html)

I threaten to start doing this at work occasionally when people really start to tick me off.



I kill me, I really do

laters
03-21-2004, 08:31 PM
OMG, those can't be for real. The rubber divider annecdote is hilarious. Maybe she wasn't really stupid. Maybe she's the kind of a person who thinks outside of the box. I mean, most of us wouldn't give a serious thought to actually purchasing one of the rubber dividers. She, on the other hand, identified it as an item for sale. LOL! Good stuff...

Iron Sauron
03-21-2004, 08:33 PM
tell me those arent true. ecspecially the one about the half-dozen chicken nuggets.

megaman
03-22-2004, 12:42 AM
bwahaha, i once ask for a vanilla ice cream with some hot chocolate syrup on top, and the girl said 'sorry, we only have hot fudge' :sigh:

Otto
03-22-2004, 10:30 AM
True or not its funny anyway.

I have seen things like that happen. I was at an old diner to eat and I went to pay and I noticed they had an old cash register (the kind that wont tell you how much change to give back) and the little girl checking me out couldnt find her calculater and was in complete PANIC....she couldnt figure out how much to give me.....What are the kids being taught in school's today?

SauerKraut
03-22-2004, 10:36 AM
True or not its funny anyway.

I have seen things like that happen. I was at an old diner to eat and I went to pay and I noticed they had an old cash register (the kind that wont tell you how much change to give back) and the little girl checking me out couldnt find her calculater and was in complete PANIC....she couldnt figure out how much to give me.....What are the kids being taught in school's today?


well, i can somewhat understand this. Math isn't always everyone's favourite skill. A lot of people are intimidated by it for some reason and just freeze up. Even though they're capable of doing the mental work quickly, they block themselves...kind of like getting stage fright. Maria is like this. She's great at rudimentary math, but ask her to subtract mentally and she'll freeze for a bit, pleading to people that she really is smart. hehehe


And before I leave, I must say to Megaman that Hot Fudge and Hot Chocolate really are two completely different things.

LilPuppy
03-22-2004, 10:59 AM
well, i can somewhat understand this. Math isn't always everyone's favourite skill. A lot of people are intimidated by it for some reason and just freeze up.


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:nod: :nod: .................. :sigh: but not too the exent of the calculator girl....it is the only class I ever failed (60 something absences by Jan. didn't help) get my grade 10 math and I get my high school diploma....kinda of backwards since I've graduated from college???

Chalybos
03-22-2004, 11:23 AM
I've seen every one of those stories before. Add the "computer cupholder, the mouse footpedal" stories too. I don't believe half of them.

I do agree that people can't count back change anymore.

Oh, and it's not as scary that these people vote, they probably don't bother. What's scary is that they could breed!


You have to take a test to get a drivers license but any idiot can become a parent.
True. Look at me. :?

Canadian Hick
03-22-2004, 11:44 AM
well, i can somewhat understand this. Math isn't always everyone's favourite skill. A lot of people are intimidated by it for some reason and just freeze up.


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:nod: :nod: .................. :sigh: but not too the exent of the calculator girl....it is the only class I ever failed (60 something absences by Jan. didn't help) get my grade 10 math and I get my high school diploma....kinda of backwards since I've graduated from college???
That beats my 47 in my grade 10 computers. :D

LionRampant
03-22-2004, 11:52 AM
These things must have happened somewhere at some time. The stories themselves might not be genuine though.

Canadian Hick
03-22-2004, 11:58 AM
These things must have happened somewhere at some time. The stories themselves might not be genuine though.
I'm sure that some fool somewhere used the cruise control wrong.