# Technology is great until it doesn't work. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 28, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092 "2017-10-28T19:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/1 "2017-10-28T19:33:19Z")
Mild pitting but I’m annoyed right now. The website that lets me see my schedule online isn’t opening properly so I can only see it in “mobile version” which is just a list of my hours rather than seeing the actual schedule which shows past hours, requested time off and schedule changes. My stupid, flippin’ fitbit is stuck on “update” because it won’t connect to bluetooth. None of the online tips are working and I’m in a contest right now that I’m going to lose because it’s not recording any of my steps. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/2 "2017-10-28T21:39:26Z")
Go to your electric service panel and open the door, look for the double breaker switch with the highest number on it … flip it off … your troubles are over … ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/3 "2017-10-29T01:04:09Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Mild pitting but I’m annoyed right now. > > The website that lets me see my schedule online isn’t opening properly so I can only see it in “mobile version” which is just a list of my hours rather than seeing the actual schedule which shows past hours, requested time off and schedule changes. > > My stupid, flippin’ fitbit is stuck on “update” because it won’t connect to bluetooth. None of the online tips are working and I’m in a contest right now that I’m going to lose because it’s not recording any of my steps. > > :mad: I feel your pain, nothing works consistently for me. I seriously think I have a real problem with tech and electronics. I read in ‘Communion’ by Whitney Striber, that some alien abductees have a similar problem. Hmmmm! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/4 "2017-10-29T01:13:04Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I feel your pain, nothing works consistently for me. I seriously think I have a real problem with tech and electronics. I read in ‘Communion’ by Whitney Striber, that some alien abductees have a similar problem. Hmmmm! So do people with psychic powers. They complain about it all the time. Man, the troubles they have! Their door keys constantly bend too, so they have to keep replacing them. I am not making any of that up, in that I did actually hear a conversation between two self-alleged psychics where they whined about such things for about 1/2 an hour. I played with the dog. That was the night I decided I would not accept any party invitations where there would not be a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/5 "2017-10-29T02:24:37Z")
Watch a few of [these videos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA) for inspiration. And then go build a new server out of clay and grass. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/6 "2017-10-29T03:21:09Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > So do people with psychic powers. They complain about it all the time. Man, the troubles they have! Their door keys constantly bend too, so they have to keep replacing them. > > I am not making any of that up, in that I did actually hear a conversation between two self-alleged psychics where they whined about such things for about 1/2 an hour. I played with the dog. That was the night I decided I would not accept any party invitations where there would not be a dog. You’re so funny! I rather be an abductee than a psychic, I don’t know why, it just seems more fun! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/7 "2017-10-29T03:26:24Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > You’re so funny! I rather be an abductee than a psychic, I don’t know why, it just seems more fun! You do know you can get probed for minimal cost right here on earth (without that “spending your weekends driving on Midwest backroads waiting for lights in the sky” time commitment…) > [@watchwolf49](#): > > Go to your electric service panel and open the door, look for the double breaker switch with the highest number on it … flip it off … your troubles are over … That… was… my iron lung… ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/8 "2017-10-29T04:52:57Z")
I managed to get the stupid fitbit to work by uninstalling it from my iphone and then reinstalling the damn thing. No such luck with the schedule though… Stupid everything. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/9 "2017-10-29T23:28:34Z")
Probative, that’s a plan! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/10 "2017-10-30T13:56:06Z")
I’m a store cashier. Our scanning system totally crashed on Friday, our busiest day of the week. No automatic ringing up and no credit card system. Cash only. It was like my first store cashier job, actually entering prices. Praise my super-great memory. Fortunately, the powers that be (a/k/a Mark) got the system running again in about an hour). ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-is-great-until-it-doesnt-work/800092/11 "2017-10-30T14:40:24Z")
I spent about 6 hours yesterday changing 40-hundred online accounts from one email address to another because my ISP decided to move a block of their email accounts from one server to another last week and FUBAR’ed everything. I lost about 3 days’ worth of email; the forwarding I had set up just plain quit working. Their webmail application is a POS, half the time it can’t/won’t display messages. And their customer non-service tried to tell me the problem was fixed and everything’s working just fine now. Not. And of course no solution was offered to restore the missing mail. What exactly am I paying for here?