Majors Answering Question's ?????

I've only been on this forum for a couple of weeks now but have found some really interesting reading and subjects from people getting pc's fixed in various ways to the men and women argueing over politic's and the UK the US and the other countries all dicussing the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But the one question i would really like to ask, is, how most of the Majors whether malware, software, or hardware fixers or even admin geeks, would really like to answer some of the questions with a humorous view to things
i:e like the other day i seen a Q posted saying " i can't switch on my pc can you help " and what came to mind ( with humour ) was answering with " maybe because your pc is in the diner and your sat in the lounge " :-D
Or even what do you think have been some of the stupidest questions you've been asked { and no smarmy comments about this one either } and how you would have liked to answer them ?
P.S it goes without saying don't mention any names !!!!!

 

I havent seen too many "common sense" or Google-able questions here really. MGs is here to help people that dont know much about what to look for even if they did google their problem. Halo covered that in his post. But working in IT support, a guy hears quite a bit. Obviously i cant say, "dont bother me just google it and leave me alone". Although id sometimes like to, id probably get fired if i did.

I think i told this one here before.
I work at a smaller college, and had a girl call me down to the class room she was in with a problem with her laptop not being able to print to my domain networked printers. I get down there and she actually unplugged the cat5 from the network printer and plug it into her computer.
Well first i tried to explain that since her laptop wasnt on the network(domain...) she wouldnt be able to use the network resources like printers. Also, since she unplugged the network cable from the network printer, it would prevent her from printing to it. I then asked her to not unplug things anymore... She really didnt get it.

I mean its stuff like that that really makes me want to get out of simple user support. I admin the network too, servers and stuff, but those pretty much run themselves. I dont really have to do too many technical things with the servers or anything on a normal day.

 

Aah, still had to flip the PSU power switch in the back then eh? Those inline ECO's were a bitch:-D

Agreed with Halo as I am wont to have some fun too. I think it was my second post here, a first time poster asked about a word processing program and I quipped for him to get a spell checker first to be understood. MA was not pleased to say the least but he thankfully didn't ban me. I have always remembered that post and conduct myself appropriately now. Can you imagine how you would feel getting an answer like that being brand new? Hmm, cross MG off the list.:boxing:***

 

RE to Halo's post - it's why I only stay in the Lounge and Mac forums. Because the Mac guys have a sense of humour

And the Lounge I can just be my sarcastic self

 

Reminds me of a time that I went out on a service call to diagnose why a customer's computer would not turn on.

When I got there, I pressed the power button on the computer and it turned on. She was all like, "What did you just do?"

Considering she had owned the computer for a couple of weeks at this point, I asked her how she had been doing this previously. Turns out that she was using the power strip to turn it off and on. Apparently when she would turn on the power strip, the computer would just start on it's own. This time it didn't automatically for some reason.

I can't really think of funnier things than I encounter in real life.