'Designer Guy' = I.T.?
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- cannonball0
Girlfriend: Let's watch a movie!
Me: Ok pop it into the playstation I'm making us soup.
Her: Can you do it? I'm too comfortable on the couch.
Me: Are you sure it's because you dont want to bother learning how to use the playstation because youre a girl and playstations are for boys? How about when I'm not home? What are you gonna do then?
Her: Nevermind, I'll just play on the internet.
Me: So you don't want to watch the movie now.
Her: Why cant you just make it go in the playstation? Make it do the thing with the controller and the beep beep etc.
Me: You do it. Turn the tv on. Press the power button on the Playstation. Put the dvd in. It takes 2 seconds to figure out.
Her: Why cant you do it?
(fast foreward 10 min later and we're ignoring each other after an argument)
- all this after i showed her how to do it earliercannonball
- your girlfriend sounds well cute and funny 'with the beep beep etc.' :Dchossy
- chossy0
my dad is very impressive actually when it comes to computers. He didn't know anything much beyond emails and typing out letters, but now he has soaked up loads and loads of information, he phones me every so often to ask me if what he is doing is the right thing or if he should buy this and that and invariably he is correct in his actions which is a good thing, my mother however almost has a heart attack if she closes a window she screams "OH GOD I HAVE DELETED SOME COMPUTER STUFF CHOSSY HELP THE SHIT OUT OF THIS THING IT'S FUCKED YO!"
- CALLES0
them: "so... what do you for a living?"
"i always know that it goes bad"
me: "graphic designer... for tv"
Them:*blank look in their face"
me: "you know... broadcast... the little drawings that you see in promos"
them:"ohhhhh (still clueless)"
- eating_tv0
I love how my dad's experience with computers has grown. No more porn and pop-up invested computer (yes, for all the above reasons). He now runs a clean ship. However, he still uses strange phrases and words to explains things. Such as downloading for example. He doesn't call it downloading but anything in the range of retrieving, ordering and asking for.
Him: "I ordered drivers from the internet."
Me: "You -ordered- drivers?"
Him: "Yes."
Me: "Dad, what do you mean?"
Him: "Well I ordered them and installed them."
Me: "Err... did you pay for them?"
Him: "... I don't think so, no. Should I have?"
Me: "Dad, what exactly did you do?"
Him: "I... retrieved drivers, from the internet? For the thing with the ball."
Me: "You mean the trackball?"
Him: "Yes."
Me: "Dad, it's called downloading."
Him: "Oh whatever! You know what I mean, don't you?! You're not an idiot!"
Me: "..."
- mg330
My Mom: "Michael, what do I put for my name and password to log into my work benefits web site?" [something i know absolutely nothing about]
Me: What do you mean?
Mom: Well, what do I put to log into the site?
Me: I have no idea, how would I know that?
Mom: Well it's not letting me log into it, I want to check my benefits. What do I put for a login name?
Me: You need to find out from your IT Department, how would I possibly know something like that?
Mom: They never answer the phone and I don't want to bug them. What do I enter?
Me: Mom, seriously, how would I possibly know what you need to enter as a username and password for something I don't even use at your company where I don't even work?
Mom: *in snide voice Well you're so good with computers I thought you would know wnat I needed to do.
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All of the above is true. I was blown away. It's one thing to ask how to use a printer, an entirely different slab of madness when a mother asks her son what her username and password is for her company's benefits site.
- flavorful0
My favourite is when my mother calls me, and I explain why nothing is showing up on her computer, or vanished as she seems to forget about Windows' Taskbar all the time, haha.
For non-porn related issues, and issues that are related to the software I've developed I'm actually pretty sane in explanation and will say the same thing three times in different ways until it actually dawns on them to do what I'm saying.
I have a lot more disdain for people who don't know how to use e-mail. Those people drive me nuts.
01. People who don't set up reminders on their Meeting Requests.
02. People who don't look at your Calendars to see your unavailble.
03. People who write their entire e-mail in the subject line.
04. People who do not write a subject line, nor have text in their e-mail, but have a Word Document attachment.
05. People that do not understand the reasoning behind CC.
06. Anyone from the HR Department.- I want to draft an office memo with the subject line "For all Non-Porn Related Issues."harlequino
- +1 for HR hatred. HR tiff's have cost me 2 jobs. HR should be kept FAR away from "creatives"applepirate
- harlequino0
Mom: I don't see the site updates you were supposed to do for our group's site.
Me: They are there trust me. Hit Refresh a few times on your browser.
Mom: I don't know what this Refresh thing is you're talking about. I don't have a "browser," this is a PC. Just do the site changes before rehearsal tonight.
PS...what do you want for Xmas?Me: Look. They are done, believe me. Look at the top of your screen at the buttons. Hot some of them. It's ok, really.
Mom: I'll look later, but i don't think I have the same stuff on this computer that you do. Remember to think about Xmas too.
Me: ....
(*In all fariness, this is specific to moms, and we all have these conversations, but it's in the same spirit.)
- A good gift to you would be for her to take some computer lessons at the local community college. :)turk_182
- been down that road, trust meharlequino
- hahaha yea. They like the idea of computers, just not all that thrilled about how or why they work. :Dflavorful
- applepirate0
HR: can you fix this old PC we have in the closet. We need to set it up for an intern. it should have an old adobe suite on it so.... thats all they need right?
me: your giving an intern a busted PC to use?
them: well we cant afford to buy a mac every time we get another person like YOU in here.
- flavorful0
Any friend who has ever asked me about why their computer is extremely slow, takes forever to open things, has pop-ups come up constantly ... to just downright not working anymore: I don't know what I did.
Me: Stop looking at the pr0n.
Them: ... But why would looking at porn hurt my computer?
Me: * Blink. *
Them: No seriously, I mean I look at sport scores, newspapers and stuff too.
Me: Not only am I 100% positive it's your endeavors to find more and more fucked up shit to get off to, you're probably going to have to get a new computer.
Them: Has this ever happened to you, what do I do?
Me: No it has not happened to me. I don't look at porn for a variety of reasons, one of them being every single person I have ever met who has had a problem with their computer it is related to said porn.
- you had me up to the point where you said you didn't look at porn... you... dirty... liar. :)turk_182
- redtube has no malware flav'
im sure you knew thatapplepirate - Nah, actually I don't look at pr0n to be honest. We've had discussions about this.flavorful
- +1 then, flav. :)turk_182
- On teh PVN over the years. I'm not sure if FFFFound is considered pr0n but at times it's all I see when, "You may like these images."flavorful
- "You may like these images."flavorful
- It doesn't mean I'm not a sick fucking bastard though, haha.flavorful
- hmmm... +1 again. :)turk_182
- MSL0
This happened a while back but:
Me: I need your logo, send across a high res tif, i'm sure I can work with that.
Client: OK, I'll fax it over now.
- brandelec0
them: "what's my login password?"
me: i want to punch you in the eye and ram my elbow in your mouth- lolCALLES
- What's my password! Man i get that a lot! Morons.sleepyfatso
- CALLES0
them: "i have no space in my computer... i think i need more ram"
Me: "no. you need more memory or another drive"
Them:"but i found some super cheap ram"
me: forget it
- cannonball0
"Do you know how I can get my emails?"
"Do you know what I do here?"
- MSL0
Boss: I can't open this .exe file on my mac!
Me: *silence*
- epete220
"Send me an eps and jpg" "But this a multipage catalog, wouldn't a PDF be better."
- CALLES0
them: "don't download weird stuff that will give me a virus"
me: 'dont you worry (fap fap fap)"
- brandelec0
"james, why is the internet down?"
"the storm last night caused a problem for most of the town"
"can you fix it?"
"no, by most of the town, i mean the entire town"