Can't stop laughing...

[SRS]

And wow I still have 3 minidisc devices. Still use 2 of them lol. Sell sell sell!

In fact you'll not get that much ... Paid over 800 Mark for Recorder/Player and Discs and got lousy 45 € this year for them. Not really a bargain

[Executioner]

Amstrad : 3 millions sold
C64 : 17 millions sold

Haha!!!! in case you didn't know Amstrad really sucks !

Your logic would mean that the Big Mac is the best burger in the world and a Lada is the best car ever made!

[villain]

Your logic would mean that the Big Mac is the best burger in the world!

Are you gonna tell me, that's not true?

[TotO]

Big Mac is just a cheap burger around the world for peoples loving low end products.
Sure, I don't speak about the nice picture shown on adds, but what you get after ordering... 

[TFM]

Oh well...
https://www.google.com/search?q=best+new+orleans+burger&biw=1280&bih=909&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiM3ofkk_HOAhVNySYKHeJpDqkQ_AUICSgE#imgrc=-NSclotmmCB2BM%3A

[seanb]

Big Mac is just a cheap burger around the world for peoples loving low end products.
Sure, I don't speak about the nice picture shown on adds, but what you get after ordering... 

I once worked in a restaurant and a customer complained that his food didn't look exactly like the picture in the menu.
I told him the meal in the menu was made of plastic and that actually worked.


There was nothing wrong as the meal looked fine but anyone who has worked in a restaurant will understand awkward customers.

[TotO]

I once worked in a restaurant and a customer complained that his food didn't look exactly like the picture in the menu.
I told him the meal in the menu was made of plastic and that actually worked.

And he was right. Because, other fastfoods have burgers looking more close to the picture.

[seanb]

Wasn't fast food I worked in. It was a restaurant and it looked like the picture.
Customers complain over stupid stuff all the time. "My hash browns aren't the same shade as my husbands" and so on.

[steve]

The C64 scene is the most active retro scene (1000 releases in just 8 months!!!!), the Amstrad one is just dying................. bye bye CPC !!!!

CPC developers obviously believe that quality is more important than quantity.

[Shaun M. Neary]

Wasn't fast food I worked in. It was a restaurant and it looked like the picture.
Customers complain over stupid stuff all the time. "My hash browns aren't the same shade as my husbands" and so on.

I remember my time working for Dell, some of the people we had ringing in, I'm convinced are prime candidates for a Darwin award.
We had this dude call in, this would have been 2002, so Windows XP was still the OS of choice as it had been over a year since it's release and at SP 1a stage. He's convinced his screen has a fault in it because of a white vertical line going down the centre of it. It doesn't happen when it powers off so it's not a crack. The most hilarious part of it was that he had contacted the guys in Banglore previously and they told him to take the big blue cd and pop it into the drive and reboot (that used to drive us nuts, a format and reinstall was that call centres answer to everything!).


Guess what? His problem was a non existent one. Of course, I was the messenger who got shot after the dude lost all his data.
His problem... is attached below.

[robcfg]

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Some people shouldn't get near a computer...

[seanb]

 

[TFM]

There was nothing wrong as the meal looked fine but anyone who has worked in a restaurant will understand awkward customers.

And everybody working hard for his (not her!) money and spending shit tons of it for a decent meal (=steak, not rubbish seafood crap!) and then gets something weird will understand how awkward service people can be sometimes.[nb]The coin has at least two sides, right?[/nb] 

[MacDeath]

I remember my time working for Dell, some of the people we had ringing in, I'm convinced are prime candidates for a Darwin award.
We had this dude call in, this would have been 2002, so Windows XP was still the OS of choice as it had been over a year since it's release and at SP 1a stage. He's convinced his screen has a fault in it because of a white vertical line going down the centre of it. It doesn't happen when it powers off so it's not a crack. The most hilarious part of it was that he had contacted the guys in Banglore previously and they told him to take the big blue cd and pop it into the drive and reboot (that used to drive us nuts, a format and reinstall was that call centres answer to everything!).

Guess what? His problem was a non existent one. Of course, I was the messenger who got shot after the dude lost all his data.
His problem... is attached below.

Lol... that's exactly my current day to day job at a call center for a well known brand with an half eaten Fruit.
yeah, the right click is not a myth, you can do it on this mouse too.

So many technologically challenged persons, how can they earn that much money ?

And when you end up with a case where 3-5 colleagues before you were searching for an "issue" that is actually the normal way of working for the device... yeah, iOs apps may not work nor even exist on MacOS X... those are 2 different range of computers, if you want netflix on a computer, no need for application just connect to the fucking website !!!
Then customer is pissed of at you because you are a lier because the previous colleagues searched for a solution with him during 5 hours.


Basically I cannot laugh at IT crowds anymore...

[Shaun M. Neary]

Basically I cannot laugh at IT crowds anymore...

Yeah, the IT crowd isn't funny when you're living it. xD
So glad I got out of that industry when I did. Fifteen years of my soul being destroyed! 

[VincentGR]

Welcome mate!

[seanb]

And everybody working hard for his (not her!) money and spending shit tons of it for a decent meal (=steak, not rubbish seafood crap!) and then gets something weird will understand how awkward service people can be sometimes.[nb]The coin has at least two sides, right?[/nb] 

I'll have you know I worked very hard at my job and was also very good at it.
And anyone like him that spends £6.99, which isn't spending shittons, that then expects something from the Ritz isn't just awkward but an idiot.

[seanb]

 


Yeah, the IT crowd isn't funny when you're living it. xD
So glad I got out of that industry when I did. Fifteen years of my soul being destroyed! 

I have friends and family phoning me to help fix their computer over phone so I can only imagine what it must be like for that to have been your job.

I don't know how you did it. At least I can say what I want to say to them 

[Bryce]

And now imagine the amount of hardware my friends/relatives give me to fix

Bryce.

[Shaun M. Neary]

I have friends and family phoning me to help fix their computer over phone so I can only imagine what it must be like for that to have been your job.

I don't know how you did it. At least I can say what I want to say to them 

My current career (photographer) isn't much different. Everyone wants shit done for free as I only 'press a button'.
You want your photos for free, go buy a selfie stick, you want my services? Fucking support me because repairs and maintenance costs money!


*still annoyed as my 14-24mm lens is still in for repair.

[MacDeath]

And now imagine the amount of hardware my friends/relatives give me to fix

I have polish ancestry, so britons would always ask me to fix their toilets...
WTF is that ?



Also my Brother always assign me to mother's email issues fixing.... dammit.
Did you know that microsoft applications actually can fail to handle hotmail addresses automatically ?