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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

But how did I get a virus....I've never downloaded anything off the internet?

I went to fix a computer that had a virus....and the person gave me the bs excuse that they never use the internet for anything other than transactions and updating their watches online. This is what I found in their downloaded history.

There was more (apparently you can download teh newdz on certain websites) but I won't get into it. This was the computer that holds all their customer info, point of sale, cash register, etc. The virus is so bad that it took me over 2 hours to backup their point of sale software and transfer to another computer.

Also the genius had an animated background (Matrix) and told me that the computer is slow but not because of his background.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

How Effin Stupid are you? Issue #9

I was looking through a company's recent jobs and came across this one. This spelling of San Diego is an injustice. Perhaps they could be fined for it in the very building they helped construct.
I emailed them a week ago that it was wrong and it hasn't been fixed.

I assume this guy didn't type his own name, but still, the typo is funny. The idea of a brain walker is kinda creepy.

Everything is wrong with this automated reply. It says he will be back by Friday, yet it's Friday and the autoresponder is still set. Also, Friday's date is the 27th, not the 26th. Outlook gets it right in the date sent. And yeah, we have a secret project called project X. Deal with it.

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.