Today, MS Word kept crashing with a memory error, so I called tech support. Instead of actually fixing the problem, their tech wasted over an hour of my time defragmenting the hard drive, disabling the anti-virus, and downloading new video card drivers from some shady site, before giving up. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I called Tech Support because the computer program wouldn't let me open files for my online classes. After an hour, and being walked through the downloading process multiple times. There was a pause and he said, "You're a fucking idiot." and hung up. It still won't work. FML
Today, I was busy writing my English final paper and all of a sudden my computer just chose to freeze. I thought Microsoft Word would save it, but alas, 4 pages down the dumpster. Plus my earphones stopped working and I can't afford to buy a new pair. FML
Today, due to technical problems, I had to call the company's IT-support as my computer went totally haywire. I explained via phone that I couldn't access anything. The support then tried contacting me by e-mail and got upset with me when I didn't answer. FML
Today, at work, my computer started acting up. I told my boss I could fix it, but he told me to call the IT department instead. Neither the IT technician or his supervisor could figure it out, so I showed them what was wrong and how to fix it. I was promptly fired for wasting 2 hours of company time. FML
Today, my aged mother continued to complain about her computer issues to me. A relative, who is good at tech support, won't bother servicing her computer because whatever she does ends up bogging it down the next day, so I have to hear about it on the phone. FML
Today, the new office IT guy figured the best way to get the virus off my computer was to wipe my entire hard drive. He was kind enough to back my data up and restore everything from the backups. Including the virus. FML
Today, I got a blue screen of death on my brand new computer. Why? My parents installed an "anti-virus" before I got home. FML
Today, my mom asked me why MS Word keeps underlining some words. After I tried to convince her that you're supposed to put a space after commas, she started yelling at me for making her look stupid. I can never win. FML
Today, my computer stopped working. Me, the technology challenged one, decided to do a system recovery on it hoping that I could make it better. Turns out, system recovery means deleting all the files off the computer including family photos, music and assignments and starting fresh. FML
Today, my mom borrowed my computer without my permission and downloaded a virus. I came home to a blue screen of death. She refuses to admit fault and pay for a new computer. FML
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krysxkatastrophe 14
I bet it went a little like this: Hello, my name is Peggy. Transfer? Transfer. Hello, my name is Peggy.
Epsilonyx 15
New video card driver for Word memory error? Sounds legit.
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Comments (128)
ALesserIvy 2
It takes way longer than an hour to defray a hard drive
GADefence 2
"Actually, defragging the hard drive is a good way of freeing up space if your harddrive is having memory space issues." If your sectors are bad, your sectors are bad. Defrags are used to make a HDD run faster (most allow you to optimize your HDD and put your most used files nearer the front of the disk). However, defragging does not give you more "space" magically. Also, don't use Microsoft Word, use Open Office. Seriously. Lastly, I worked at a tech for a few years on the phone : Most techs are retards, and the good ones are bogged down by corporate tape. "You can't fix this problem until we tell you this problem is fixable" being an issue I ran into a few times, once nearly getting fired for fixing a CD-drive issue our system said was "unrepairable".
hazumu_fml 8
Sounds like ellen feiss part 2.
iislix1ii 19
Oh yeah beacuse a video card driver would TOTALLY fix a problem having to do with memory.
dreamsorrow 3
Not to op .... Upgrade your ram and uninstall and reinstall if ram upgrade does not work
sueannpalma 7
Dumb Arabs
JuneRhythm 0
You should look into getting a mac.
jazzmxx 0
That's why you get a Mac (:
kainpwnsu 19
Yeah, those are all legitimate fixes for the problem. Apparently, you, nor most of the respondents, don't know much about computers. Quit whining about things you don't understand. Try doing some basic research, before you shoot your mouth off.
kainpwnsu 19
Good comment. Where the hell do you work?!? That is total crap.