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This has happened about fifteen times today, with slight variations:

Me: “Can you read the words on the screen to me?”

User: “It’s blue!”

Ugh.

UPDATED:

This day just gets better:

User: “I’m out of columns in Excel!”

Me: “Um, Scroll down?”

User: “Oh! Â Will that work every time?”

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#1 written by shine
about 1 year ago

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How you don’t kill people on a daily basis is beyond me.
#2 written by Travis
about 1 year ago

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I’m going to make you a cape. No shit.
#3 written by Christina Harper
about 1 year ago

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*facepalm* Wow. That is epic. Heh. Excel, man. It messes with your mind.
#4 written by Canned Salmon
about 1 year ago

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Is it hard to tell people to ” Scroll down?â€ without letting them know you think they are an idiot?
#5 written by Tom Goette
about 1 year ago

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You gotta warn them not to scroll down too fast or the cursor will drop off the bottom of the screen and fall in back of the monitor and it will be hell to find and put back after that. LOL!
#6 written by Ed Adams
about 1 year ago

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1. Open mouth
2. Insert shotgun
3. Pull trigger to solve computer error
#7 written by daffy
about 1 year ago

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You gotta wonder how the hell some people made it out of the womb….

I’m pimpin you again tomorrow BTW….
#8 written by BigSis
about 1 year ago

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I came to visit from Daffy’s and will definitely be back.

From the HR perspective, I have to tell you – you should have seen the ones we DIDN’T hire. Talk about stoooopid.
- #9 written by jeff
  about 1 year ago
  
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  good point, i suppose the people that call me are the ones actually smart enough to pass an interview
#10 written by Chantel
about 1 year ago

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lmao. I worked cust service in college. After 25 minutes with a foul-mouthed idiot of a gentleman who insisted our lamp was defective and “dammit if your f*in stupid engineers couldn’t get it right….” Etc…etc…

“Sir, is the lamp plugged in?”

“Uhh….no.”

I quit that night. Some people just don’t deserve help. Dammit.
#11 written by shine
about 1 year ago

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Daffy, your comment scares me. You stop that.
#12 written by shine
about 1 year ago

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Oh damn, not Daffy! BigSis.

In my defense, she did SAY Daffy. Ugh.
#13 written by KELLY AT SPEAKING FROM THE CRIB
about 1 year ago

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found you from daffy and i see ed’s up there too. good people. i can’t throw stones, really. or better put, i shouldn’t throw stones.
#14 written by georgie
about 1 year ago

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LMAO…I could NOT do your job!
batcrap aka daffy sent me over…
#15 written by jeff
about 1 year ago

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woo! thanks for all the visitors ducky! and welcome to everyone else
#16 written by Kristen
about 1 year ago

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Hi Jeff!
I came over at Daffy’s recommendation.
You crack me up.
Because I am moderatly comp savvy, and I have worked with these idjits. I feel your pain.
I added you to my reader…so I will be back!
#17 written by Ian
about 1 year ago

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Daffy said she’d feed my kid to the mafia if I didn’t follow. We be Big Pimpin today my friend.

Daffy pimped us so we be blog gangstas

Nice to meet ya

Ian @ thedailydoseofreality.blogspot.com
#18 written by Matty Thoughts
about 1 year ago

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Daffy sent me over from her pond. I fear being spotlighted on your blog some day, because I AM ONE OF THESE IDIOTS.

Nice to meet another guy blogger. There aren’t many of us.

Matty
- #19 written by jeff
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  no kidding! check out Travis and Ed if you get a chance as well.
#20 written by Mama Bird
about 1 year ago

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I too am popping by via Daffy. She’s a heck of a pimp!
#21 written by Anonymous
about 1 year ago

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Can I be your internet hit woman?

I mean, I won’t kill people or anything, unless you pay me in shoes, but I’ll go out and literally hit these people in the face.

I may have small hands, but they can fuck shit up.

<3 T
#22 written by T
about 1 year ago

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**Got a little too excited about hitting people and accidentally posted my comment without my info attached.

Can I be your internet hit woman?

I mean, I wonâ€™t kill people or anything, unless you pay me in shoes, but Iâ€™ll go out and literally hit these people in the face.

I may have small hands, but they can fuck shit up.

<3 T

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