I so feel this

#1 ROFLMAO!

That was HILLARIOUS! =D

#2 If that's real, that guy obviously needs a new job.

Since when did it not only become OK to ship buggy software, but now all right to cuss out users for complaining about it?

Or is that all just parody?

#3 I think the guy is 101% correct in writing that. Users can be stupid, and most are kids that don't know crap about development, but since cursing is free they go and insult the developers over it. I really feel the pain of that guy.

#4 Definitely parody.

#5 Parody

#6 Lol... ok. :)

#7 That was AWESOME!!! Too damn funny... yet at the same time, true. Before I started learning programming, I would ask the 21-6 coders crazy stuff... I'd joke about the per-pixel fog, but I'd be serious about other things that, until I started learning code, I didn't realize were almost MORE ridiculous...

But yes... that was excellent. And if it had been real, it would have beaten my brothers greatest "I Quit" stories hands down.

#8 I've considered a tech support job before, but just in helping friends and family with computers makes me want to bang my head against the wall.

I don't know what I would do if I got a support question written in 'leet speak. lol

#9 MY M0U53 A1N7 RUNN1N6! Y0 1 D15PLU6 17 FR0M CPU @ND 17 N07 W04K N0W. WHY BR0?

*shudders* I hurt from just typing that...

I had a job at a small computer shop in Colorado Springs last year (place is called Innovative Concepts if anyone has heard of it). I had lots of fun people to deal with including the usual AOL users (those types always had enough virii on their computer to fill a DVD-Rom with the code alone), malware lovers, but the best one I had was a customer who was putting color ink cartridges in both cartridge slots on a printer then called to complain that everything printed in rainbow color.

Feel the pain.

#10 My favorite tech support story happened when I was doing phone tech support at my university, and got a call from this girl who complained her cup holder was broken. Understandably confused, yet intrigued, I asked her to clarify, at which point she described the motorized cup holder tray that comes out from the front of the computer casing. *shudder*

#11 I used to work at an ISP. I was the guy who put it all together, but I also had to work tech support. (We were small, only five people.) Trust me, the definition of not-fun is trying to explain to some ninty year old lady that her cheapie V.90 Winmodem just isn't very good at connecting to our KFlex modems. (Thankfully, a later firmware upgrade allowed us to do V.90 too.)

This was back in the days when Windows 95 didn't have TCP/IP networking enabled by default (just IPX and NetBEUI, since most business networks used either of those) and you had to walk people through manually installing the network drivers, plus setting DNS, gateway, etc.

I would rather stab my eyeballs out with rusty forks than ever work that sort of job again...

#12 What kinda scares me all around is how many people don't even have computers. Working at my parents store, we get TONS of calls from customers from around the country asking for our catalog... I point them towards our web site, to which they respond with a slight chuckle, "Oh, I don't have a computer. Can I have your catalog?"

Neverthless, due to how many people refusing to even buy one of those super-cheap "fall apart in 3 weeks and namely constructed to advertise to you" computers like an eMachine, we now need to make a catalog. Whoop-dee-do.

#13 Absolutely fanstasic, rotflmao.

Been there, kicked the customers, got fired. When muppets actually try and write something and maintain it, they can start throwing s*$t at u. Until then, buy a book about programming, write a brand new gaming engine and a game. Then wait for the morons he talks about to start rolling in.

Has anyone got that dudes email address?

#14 You guys are killing me, here! LOL

Is that cup holder story a real one? I mean, I remember getting that "Free CocaCola holder" program where it would put up a coke logo and spit out the CD player. I loved that. :-) But for someone to seriously think it's a cup holder? OMG.

#15 About the cup holder, I didn't actually get to see the computer, so for all I know the girl could have been yanking my crank, but she sounded earnest enough that I believed her. And honestly, would you really be surprised? I certainly wouldn't be. ;)

#16 Hmmm... Very funny!

I thought that eMachines had gone into the no-dell-rip-off computer industry now. Anyway, don't know, don't care.

So long programming geeks. Now I'm off to where the real money is, 3d modeling. ;P

#17 The cup holder thing is actually very common, you'd be surprised. My best tech support call was from an internal helpdesk I worked at when a guy called up and started yelling to me about a mouse problem, he was going nuts. I was like, ok, calm down, now are you running Solaris or Windows? He said no, you don't understand, it just ran under the desk! I told him to call facilities...

Quote:And if it had been real, it would have beaten my brothers greatest "I Quit" stories hands down.

I wore a dress to work and carried a (fake) human head under my arm like a football the day I quit one of my crappiest jobs, that was fun. Had my company namebadge on proudly for all the customers could see, too. No makeup though, that would have been going too far.

Another job I quit by setting up an inbox rule that "when message received from (anyone) move to folder (trash) and perform action (permanently delete)" and I unplugged my phone; I did phone and email tech support; it took them 3 weeks to figure out that I stopped working before they fired me (I couldn't quit or I would have owed them money for training, but a loophole was if they fired me).

Ahh, those were the days...!

#18

Quote:Users can be stupid, and most are kids that don't know crap about development, but since cursing is free they go and insult the developers over it.

Hope your not stereotypeing kids here, cause i don't know alot of development, seeing how im just startin out, but i know unlike some how to respect it all. ;)

Ya, that was funny as hell though.. very nice :D

#19 Our best tech support call: "the screen's gone black." Panic ensues. The guy talked to tech support about wanting to return the system for ten minutes before..."oh wait, I just moved the mouse, and the screen came back."

It's just too dumb for the FAQ, even.

#20 Pure Pwnage

Video 1 and 2 can probably be skipped, though the series takes flight with video 3 :)

At least I was entertained...