People who think you're good with computers
because you fix laptops for them and their family when they've got a virus by searching for the fucking problem on Google and heeding the advice of someone who's already solved it and posted about it on a forum somewhere easily accessible on the internet.
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I got asked by a mate's cousin the other day if I could fix his laptop after his girlfriend dropped it and it got a crack in the screen from one corner to the other
...
because I'm good with computers.
duck tape
...duck tape?
Ooooh
i went and looked up duct vs duck and there's some good facts about this.
Duck tape should be dark green though. IT'S DUCT.
don't fink so mate
Duck is a brand. Duct is the generic term, I believe.
nah it's DUCK TAPE
Nah, you're wrong.
There's not even a Wikipedia page for Duck Tape:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape
that link doesn't work
100% sure it's DUCK TAPE
I've got a can of whopass here.
Don't make me open it.
It's not btw
so stop being wrong
duck was the first usage but it was when it was military use only and green
then it went household, went grey and changed to duct for marketing purposes apparently
don't know where you've got that from
DUCK TAPE
('<>')
my tape
in my job as a web deisigner
i find that poeple (office chumps) assume that becaus ei know a bit about coding, I'm somehow going to know why their pc has frozen or how to install more meory or something.
always coming into the office with their little problems.
TUT
i don't know nothing
why am I having so much trouble duplicating a wordpress site from web host to another?
solve my problems for me, whilst having no knowledge of the details!!!
Everytime I've fixed things I've done it right infront of their eyes by using Google like anyone with half a brain cell
Why are people so thick?
There is a gulf between having access to Google and solving issues.
I work in software support and I can tell you we have people come in for jobs who have great grades in maths, science or computers but they have no strong analytic skills: finding problems and their causes isn't something everyone is good at.
people who think you are good at grammar
My mum thinks i'm a computer genius
Anybody who knows me irl will know how ridiculous this is.
^this to the OP
my mum keeps buying new laptops because they're "full of viruses"
when in reality she's just randomly downloading every exe file she can find and filling them with malware or adware/not using the security tools that pc world hard-sell her every year properly. stupid mum.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2659/3925944864_15790ffdef.jpg
wonder who stole from whom
http://www.xkcd.com/627/
^that was the one I was thinking of
but I forgot it was xkcd and so just took the first google image result that was appropriate.
Someone in the office managed to turn their screen upside down last week
They were well impressed when I managed to turn it the right way up again.
Oh and regarding the *ITS GOT A VIRUS!!!* - My dad is always doing that and then I have to spend an hour fixing everything for him.
Whenever I start a job in a new office
I manage to blow peoples minds by adding the shortcut to Desktop icon to the Start bar. Then they are friendly to me form that point on and always make me tea (and ask me for more computer help)
Why not just use Windows + D?
I think Windows + M is better, personally.
Nah, D pops you back to the window you were on afterwards too.
..
http://www.geekosystem.com/family-tech-support-guy/
Soooooooooooooooo this
it's really only this phenomena that's keeping me in employment
*phenomenon
^ see, I can't even speak properly
Do you go into interviews with loads of broken laptops in your rucksack?
there's also the fact that many computer users don't necessarily want to spend the time needed
to go through the steps required to fix an issue.
I understand a lot of my friends know how to do the above
but they're more often then not afraid to even follow instructions they find on the internet for fear of things going balls up. So they get me to do it anyways