Pet Peeves (Computer Related)

[randomlinh]

monitor touching... don't touch, just point

 

[DamageInc]

Originally posted by: tokamak
i can reiterate a few that have already been posted:
my dad always gets "scroll down" and "scroll up" mixed up. i will be helping him look something up, he will say "scroll down", i will start moving down the page, and he'll go *no the other way*

Dude! My dad does the same damn thing! It's so ridiculous!

 

[Amused]

The bug in Win XP that makes the tooltips appear behind the task bar... making it hard to see the date when you hover over the time :|

 

[IamElectro]

How about the people who think the floppy drive is the hard drive?

Or when you g/f installs the purple monkey software cause its was cute.

Finger prints on monitor bad.

When people have 20 icons in the system tray and want to know why the computer is running slow so you disable half of them and they get mad even though they couldn't tell you what more than 3 or 4 of them are.

Or when someone calls you to help because they are having problems with thier computer and you go over to help them and they stand behind you and do one of 2 things.

1. Every time you click on some thing or type they want to know what your doing and, you know they will never understand.

2.Every time you try to do some thing the tell you you can't do that or your no supposed to do that.

 

[DocBartend]

When a customer calls with a problem and they tell me they rebooted 5 times. WHY??!!

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia

Originally posted by: DamageInc
People that "blast you" an email, or that "shoot out" an email.

That's hilarious. It really is.

Sounds like various forms of bowel movement...

Working on the hell desk:

People who reboot their machine, call you while it's rebooting, and wonder why you put them on hold while you go smoke a cigarette.

People who say "The internet is down" or "My internet doesn't work" or "The internet is down because <insert site here> says my password is incorrect"

People who have a fan setting on or next to the monitor, call to complain the screen wiggles, and plays dumb to the tech who comes to fix it.

People who move on to other things, getting rid of a unique but necessary error message, and demand you fix it.

People who eat over their keyboards and order replacements every week.

People who say "I don't know anything about this computer crap." Yeah, I like to hear that my career choice is crap.

People who want speakers/cdrw/lcd/etc because "John has one..."

People who use speakerphone cuz they're too f*%&#*(&$^ lazy to pick up the handset

People who use headsets, but have the mic a mile away from their mouths and refuse to adjust it when you tell them you can't hear them.

People who repeat, "NO" when you're trying to show them how to fix the problem. (This one makes me want to shove the phone up the user's a$$)

but the absolute worst:
PEOPLE WHO EAT WHILE ON THE PHONE WITH YOU!!!!!

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: DamageInc
People that "blast you" an email, or that "shoot out" an email.

Yikes. That sounds painful. Tell them to turn on the fan before they do it.

:Q

 

[Gujski]

people who say "marry up" when refering to technical processes
It's the term of the year here.

"So they'll do this and he'll do that then we'll marry them up and have our golden egg!!"

People who cut thier nails at thier cube

People who talk super loud on the phone

People who dress slopily at a business casual office. There is this contracter they hired recently who wears these dress shoes slipper type deals with white socks!?

People who cannot ever seem to work a full 40 hour week. "I have to leave 2 hrs early to take my lizard to the vet" "I have a runny nose i have to go to the doctors at 2 pm to see if its mono"

People who try to dump on call to you.
"can you take on call for me this saturday and sunday, we are going to niagra falls" WTF the oncall schedule has been out for 6months in advance why schedul trip for your oncall weekend? but they dont just want to switch whole weeks they just want you to take a couple days.:disgust:

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: dighn
the damn n00bs who get infected with email viruses and spread them everywhere. i am so sick of getting all these email viruses on my yahoo account

newbies! see my pet peeve $@$%

 

[Ness]

I hate people who refuse to learn how to fix "problems" such as a mouse being dirty or the infamous "My keyboard isn't working because I pulled it across the room and I'm too dumb to figure out I caused it to come unplugged."

The worst thing EVER is when people install programs in random directories like My Documents... or install programs to the desktop... and all the files are F'ING everywhere.... uggghhh

Then you have the people who refuse to adjust to a new program that works better because they are dumb and it took them years to figure out the old one.

I hate it when people use my computer. Especially when they don't ask. Log you out of your email, leave theirs logged in... close all your apps... leave away messages up on THEIR AIM account... Come on. Seriously.

People who break something, then refuse to do anything about it until the problem become so unbearable...
But on the same token, people who do something stupid and ask you to fix it every 10 seconds.

People who have poor file management skills, then run up to you asking you where they put a file. There is a "My Documents" folder for just that... not so you can avoid putting things in one place you dumb$hits.

The phrase "I Own" is now for 8 year old AOLers, and them alone. (I 0WNZ3RS and any other variation included) Get over it.

 

[fs5]

seems like a lot of people here work help desk/tech support.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
people that use the phrase "touch base"

...or "Off-line".

amish

 

[Night201]

Originally posted by: Koing
When people go anywhere near my monitors with a finger! That SERIOUSLY piss's me off. NO ONE TOUCHES the monitor! Koing

 

[guyver01]

people that use internet terms in meetings..

"lets take that discussion offline"

"i'll download you the information after this meeting"

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: ness1469


I hate it when people use my computer. Especially when they don't ask. Log you out of your email, leave theirs logged in... close all your apps... leave away messages up on THEIR AIM account... Come on. Seriously.

Well, now. That gives you a way to teach them not to behave that way, doesn't it?
:evil:
New away message is in order. Left their email account logged in? Hmmm.

 

[drum]

Or when you g/f installs the purple monkey software cause its was cute.

lol gotta love that!
when my family does on of the aforementioned peeves, i just shake my head and try to correct them so as to not make them feel stupid if i can.

 

[dman]

Websites w/ auto audio = Evil.

DMCA

 

[tokamak]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
I would have to give her huge amounts of crap for saying that. Especially on a regular basis...

i know, its totally ridiculous, isnt it? i've never said a word to her about it though, i just cringe and keep my mouth shut.

Originally posted by: rust5tyle
It bugs me when someone calls a Network card a NIC Card. NIC = Network Interface Card. So saying NIC Card is like saying "NETWORK INTERFACE CARD CARD" I don't know..

something kinda related to that is AGP. i ALWAYS hear "AGP port" or "AGP slot" which of course means "accelerated graphics port port" or "....port slot". it doesnt really bother me though, in fact i use it that way. saying "does it have an AGP" just doesnt sound right. kinda weird to think about...

 

[Electric Amish]

I also always have the discussion with my mother about memory vs. harddrive space.

Mom: Do I have enough memory?

Me: For what?

Mom: To install this program. (or download pictures from a camera, etc.)

Me: Memory has nothing to do with those functions.

Mom: Well, they have to go into the computer somewhere.

Me: Yes, on the harddrive. You have plenty of space.

 

[fs5]

#1 pet peeve:

RIAA!

 

[amcdonald]

How about when you have to explain something slightly technical to upper management, and they are complete morons in general (which carries over into the computer field). I have to more or less lie/make up stuff so its just enough information to help them understand without totally confusing them. And I hate how irresponsible everyone in IT is (myself included at times)

 

[dfi]

Originally posted by: Rogue
One sentence.

"The internet is down."

I say that all the time. Also, "my internet is down." It's a lot easier than saying "I can't access the internet because my cable modem is having trouble syncing with the headend due to upstream signal issues."

dfi

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Walking up to a user's desk that has 18 zillion programs running in the system tray.....
Ugh... why can't these programs just dump their crap in the quick launch??? Has anyone ever actually used Realplayer jukebox? or how about the quicktime icon? God that's irritating.

And that's another thing... friggin Weatherbug. I hate that thing with a passion.

Oh, and before I forget, New.net. How is it that every friggin user in the world has this thing installed???

 

[Chaotic42]

People who have crazy lights and crap all over their case.

 

[tokamak]

i just thought of something else - not computer related: stupid "priceless" jokes (mastercard style). when will people realize that its not funny/original any more?