Idiot customer wrecks his PC again

[bodnobal]

This has nothing to do with contracting.

You can get people who can do what you do OP in the local paper for about £20.

When did this forum start to get Chavs doing IT in here?

[Board Game Geek]

Bobnobal wrote

This has nothing to do with contracting.

You can get people who can do what you do OP in the local paper for about £20.

When did this forum start to get Chavs doing IT in here?

Neither do a great deal of posts on the forums either, but I don't see you complaining about them.

So why this one ?

Is the thought of other people doing support work to earn some extra pennies somehow not pleasing to you ?

It's IT work, and I dare say some contractors do some in their spare time.

Therefore the subject has more right to be discussed on these boards than many that have gone before it.

What on earth has Chav's got to do with it ?

As a troll post goes, it was successful.

Successful in highlighting how retarded you are in your opinions of others.

[threaded]

Dealing with Clients is one thing, but Joe Public are mental.

You wanna try a spell in a chip shop on a Friday Saturday night for meeting up with some proper mentalists.

[Board Game Geek]

You wanna try a spell in a chip shop on a Friday Saturday night for meeting up with some proper mentalists.

If it's anything like when I was 17 and used to run my father's taxi-cab office late at night, I can imagine and sympathise.

[tim123]

Have thought about it.

How do you get your customers?

Guy who worked with my sister just went around town putting flyers through all the doors.

tim

[DiscoStu]

This has nothing to do with contracting.

You can get people who can do what you do OP in the local paper for about £20.

When did this forum start to get Chavs doing IT in here?

Idiot

[realityhack]

I am frequently asked to 'look into' problems with friends' PCs - one kept calling when she bought a new Macbook 'how do I print?', 'what is a keychain?' and such like. In the end I told her to use the handy 'help' menu and read about these things before she even considered calling.

After a couple of calls that went something like 'how do I...?' me: 'have you read the help menu?' her: 'oh, hang on... ah yes, there it is'... it stopped.

I also spend at least 2 hours every Christmas 'fixing' my dad's PC, mostly due to spacker errors like clicking on any old link etc. I installed ZA, AVG etc but they never update the definitions file.

Ah well...

[TheFaQQer]

When did this forum start to get Chavs doing IT in here?

It all started when the newbies arrived, several years ago.

Before that, it we all fields round here, but it was very funny.

milan

[TheFaQQer]

I also spend at least 2 hours every Christmas 'fixing' my dad's PC, mostly due to spacker errors like clicking on any old link etc. I installed ZA, AVG etc but they never update the definitions file.

WHS - my parents update theirs every time I go over there.

I spent an hour on the phone to my brother at Christmas, after he'd clicked on the "you have 43 viruses, click here to remove them" link....

[DiscoStu]

TheFaQQer

"It all started when the newbies arrived, several years ago.

Before that, it we all fields round here, but it was very funny."


you forgot the world class comedians. and there's two too many capital letters.

milan