I love my job…
I hate stupid people…
I work in IT, a woman called me and said I had to get over to her to help her with her with her computer as soon as I could…
ok… great…I have no problem with that… that is why I get paid…
I drop everything I was doing and walk over to her, and she is on her neightbors computer for the day…
I say “hey… whats going on…” and at first I thought my ears were playing a trick on me when she said…
“I’m left handed, I need the mouse on the other side.”
I looked at her in total disbelief and grabbed her mouse… pulled it over to the other side and walked away… She didn’t even want to switch the right and left click… she just called me over to move the fucking mouse…
"Pick up the mouse. Good. Now pick up the mouse pad. Good. Set the mouse pad down on the left side of your desk. Excellent, almost there. Now, put the mouse on top of the mouse pad.
When I was working desktop support, if someone had called me with that problem, I’d have had to put in a ticket for the union to do it, because it was a hardware problem.
I’m as union supporting, pinko-liberal as they come, but THAT was the stupidest thing I ever heard.
I leave my mouse on the right. For the same reason that I bowl right-handed and brush my teeth right-handed. I watched others do it that way, so I did it that way too.
She must’ve been one of those “special” left-handers we try not to talk about in our bi-monthly meetings.
I can actually use a mouse equally well with either hand–right at work, left at home. The upshot is that I’m more comfortable airbrushing photos and doing logos with my right hand and playing games with my left, although I can do either “backwards.”
That is pretty damn stupid. My personal favorite stupid IT thing is when people don’t know about the proper usages of the on/off switch.
User’s monitor dies. I replace monitor. After this apparently intense process, user asks me if all her stuff is still saved on the computer.
Brain thinks, “What the fuck?”
Mouth takes advantage of brain’s confusion and says, “Do the TV stations go away when you throw out your TV?”
User blinks. Blinks again. Starts to blink one more time, but then that body function is halted in favor of more processing time devoted to my perplexing question.
“Ohhhhhh,” she drools, after blinking a few more times. I briefly considered dropping her dead monitor on her foot.
I’m left handed and the only time I use a mouse on the left hand side is when I’m two-boxing. shrug
I’m constantly amazed by the amount of people who, under normal circumstances might be considered intelligent, but are reduced to complete drooling morons by a bit of technology.
There are a lot of people who think the computer is inside the monitor. They think the box is just where you put the CDs and turn it on. In fact, some people think turning the monitor off and back on is rebooting the computer.
