Aggravating stories from tech illiterates

[BORTZ]

whooprs

 

[mechadylan]

Hooory shiz.

I thought it was a joke so I never responded, but he was serious. Something about how I wasn't in his contact list and he wanted to add me to some spam list. I has relieved that he couldn't figure it out.

 

[Dimensional]

Someone came to me to help fix their computer. Not something too difficult. They were saying that it was running slow. I turned it on, had them log in, and looked around. Within 20 seconds I found the culprit. They had not 1, but 3 different Anti Virus software suites running at the same time, and they all were out of date. Apparently they never updated them to begin with either.

 

[Chary]

Called AT&T, 'cause my router wasn't working. After about 2 hours of the guy saying, "Honestly, honestly" over and over after every word, I asked him for his supervisor. The supervisor told me, "The reason your Internet is acting up, is because you have a virus." Incredulous, I asked for clarification. All he said was that it was a virus impeding my access to the Internet. Furious, I asked them how I could get this "magical virus" that Infected my 3 Windows machines, my ipad, Xbox and Wii, especially since they all run on different OSes. They just said to "watch what I download on my Xbox," and hung up. I was so mad, I literally took the router to the nearest AT&T headquarters, and threw it against their wall.

Another story I have is when I called AT&T on another matter. I asked them why my brand new router I had received from them was cracked and broken, right out of the box. All I got was a response saying, "Don't download porn" Horrified, (Since I am a 16 year old female, with NO inclination to watch such a thing) I screamed for the manager. Long story short, he got chewed out big time for telling a minor such a thing over the phone.

 

[Ericthegreat]

Back in school when I lived with my parents, my mum always used to snap at me for alt tabbing.

YOU'RE NOT HELPING, YOU'RE JUST FLIPPING EVERYWHERE.

And when you fix someone's computer and they uninstall the antivirus you put on and download Bonzai Buddy or some shit then claim you broke it and it worked just fine before you did anything.

My other housemate for someone computer literate is a real dick too. I built PCs for everyone in my house and 1 component was faulty and he's all like:

BUILDING PCS IS STUPID. I'D MUCH RATHER HAVE A PROFESSIONAL DO IT. THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN WHEN YOU BUY A PREMADE PC, AND THEY BREAK ALL THE TIME.

I can't reason with him.

lmao I remember when I was small I had bonzai buddy, uncle taught it was so cool that he could say what you typed in, and we would usually make him say bad words. but yea years later I put on that pc and it had 150+ virii.