The best keyboard/typing one I ever heard was from a friend who works in
the Call Centre for Microsoft. Apparently this story is a legend in there.
This girl calls up to say she can't get Word 6 (back in Win 3.1 days here)
to work on her 286 /386 or whatever it is. She has put Disk 1 of the set of
6 or 7 in the floppy drive, followed the instructions, but nothing happens
- everytime she enters "INSTALL" from the A:> prompt, she gets "bad command
or file name".
The Microsoft assistant tries everything, and talks her through the
procedure twice, to no avail, even checks to see if she is inserting the
floppy fully and its the right way up in the drive. Still no joy.
Eventually, frustrated after an hour long attempt, the Microsoft guy says
" are you absolutely sure you're typing INSTALL?"
To which the girl replies " Well, yeah - except my N key is broken, so I'm
using M instead - does that matter?"
Amazing how stupid some people can be.......
BTW, I have loads more of these if anybodys interested!!
Darren Branagh,
Consumer Lending Business,
Bank Of Ireland Card Services,
Nassau House, 33/35 Nassau Street, Dublin 2. Ireland.
Tel: 01-6176368 (Direct Line) Fax: 01-6798717
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 at 09:14:43, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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>When I worked at BMW in Munich, they buy our software, we had to learn how
>to use a Germoan layout - interesting !
>When we came home again and had to use an UK layout, we had all sorts of
fun
>- every 'w' was replaced by a 'z' for about a week afterwards.
>Then, we had to go back to Munich again .........
>
>As the Chinese would say 'interesting times' !
No - they might _write_ that but would _say_ 'Intelesting times' (8-)#
Oh yes - it is worth repeating my favourite 'mistyping' story.
In my Kodak days (urkk over 30 years ago) we had a very unhappy typist.
She spent all her time (pre-computer) typing schedules for KD shipments
on a manual typewriter.
... and retyping 'cos we made mistakes and re-re-typing 'cos she made
mistakes.
On one occasional all mentions of 'Shipping Dates' turned into 'Shitting
Dates' and no-one noticed in the office. I think Rosemary did not last
very ling (8-)#
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