Smasharoo wrote:
Dunno, coming from a computer support background, his whole account reminds me of folks who did something to make their computers break, but want to blame it on the computer instead of themselves, but don't actually know enough about the technology to lie correctly about it. It's really really obvious when people do this, but they don't realize it.
From what we know of your ability to discern obvious things, I'm going to say a lot of people had hardware failures that you didn't help with.
"I want to get a refund on my computer."
"Okay, can you describe your problem?"
"The cup holder was too flimsy and broke right off. Now my computer won't turn on."
".... Excuse me?"
"You know, the little cup holder tray. You push the button and it comes out. It's too weak for a Big Gulp. It snapped right off and spilled soda all over my computer. Now it won't turn on. None of the lights are working and it makes no noises."
"Sir, your computer doesn't come with a 'cup holder.'"
"Don't you tell me what my computer did and did not come with! I picked this model specifically because it had the cup holder."
"Yes, it has a tray that slides out, but -"
"You guys really need to design these things better."
"Sir, that's the CD tray."
"The - the what?"
"The CD tray. Your computer plays CDs. You put them in the tray and it reads them."
*click*
"Sir?"
Edited, Feb 16th 2013 1:10am by catwho