GFYstuff: dumb

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

How Effin Stupid are you? Issue #3

Here’s some more stupid stuff.

1) PDF MacGyver

A guy at work doesn’t know how to print to PDF. Our copier has a feature that can scan a page and email the PDF to you. So in order to attach a PDF to his email, he prints the page out, then brings it to the copier and sends it to himself. Then he forwards the email that he got from the copier. I asked him if he ever pays debit or does he drive to a bank to take out cash and drive back to the store every time he has to pay for something. This is not his first entry on the effin stupid list.

2) Call the Slambulance

You may have heard about this kid in Australia. I know brad did, cause he sent it to me. This small kid picks on a big kid. You’re gonna walk over, but you’re gonna be limping back. Literally.

http://thechive.com/2011/03/15/bully-learns-a-painful-lesson-video/

Guess he thought he’d be safe cause his friends were watching and taping. This kid was dumb even before he had a concussion.

3) The files are inside the computer?

This guy at work asked me to take a look at his son’s computer. He said it wouldn’t boot and his son tried to do a system restore. His son didn’t back up anything and didn’t know what he was doing. He wiped his whole hard drive multiple times as he tried to do the system restore over and over. I easily reinstalled windows, but if he would’ve given it to me before trying to fix it, he wouldn’t have lost anything.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

How effing stupid are you? Issue 1

I'll try to do a weekly article of at least 3 retarded things that people have done. You guys can write your own stupid things that people have done, and we'll vote on which one was the effing stupidest of the week.

1) This guy at my work is trying to send an email and he keeps getting an error that Outlook doesn't recognize the email address and it will not send. He calls me over to his desk and it is apparent that he's trying to send an email to this address: www.oceansupply.com

2) This next guy has a few errors that add up to complete stupidity. First off, I get any emails that end in @nationalpipehanger.com but aren't to a real email address. This helps me to catch emails when customers spell addresses wrong. So I get 2 emails for RobertBeck@nationalpipehanger.com, when the emails are supposed to go to Robert Buck. The first email says:
"NOT TO SCALE...LOL PLEASE QUOTE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL ME ROB 954-444-5782 "
But there's no attachment. Guy forgot the attachment, another common error. Here is his "technical" drawing, which is attached to the 2nd email.

yeah, he wrote it on a piece of cardboard, then took a picture of it.

3) Casey asks me to look at her friend's website and tell her what I think of it. The website is totallyteeshirtsoutlet.com. Apparently her friend hired a guy that has no computer background to make the website because he said he was a "fast learner." The site is just a mess.
The designer puts the google site verification right on the page where people will read it. That is supposed to go in the <Head> tag so the computers (like google's search engine) can read it, but humans won't see it.

Also, I noticed a huge gap of white space at the bottom of the page. It looks like white text is there, but with the white background you can't read it. So I highlighted everything to see what it says.

It says "totally tee shirts" hundreds of times. I guess he's trying to fool search engines into ranking his site higher because it says tee shirts so many times. Too bad it's not going to work. They also shouldn't show up as text on the page, they should be in the <Head> portion of the webpage. He's been working on this site for over a year and he only has this page and the contact page. Complete dumbarse.