General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on November 02, 2006, 11:44:39 PM
Title: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 02, 2006, 11:44:39 PM
I swear, between my brother and the girlfriend. It reminds me of this time in Target, when this customer bought something and wanted to pay us to help her, because I guess we look like tech savvy white folks (read: geeks!) and in an effort to play dumb, Disposable White Guy shrugged his shoulders and screeched out, "COMPUTARS?!?"
Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 02, 2006, 11:46:01 PM
Testing.
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(http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/Sidebar-%5Bbones,-web%5D.article.jpg) I don't know what that means.
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Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 02, 2006, 11:47:46 PM
:lol
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Actually, I don't mind helping CrystalGemini, but my brother called me with the dumbest PC problem right afterwards.
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Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: Bacon on November 02, 2006, 11:49:54 PM
Sometimes I just feel cheap.
Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: bagofeyes on November 02, 2006, 11:51:32 PM
I just say I use macs and don't know anything about dumb windows machines
Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: DJ_Tet on November 02, 2006, 11:52:54 PM
I am cheap tech support for my family. Every time I visit family members, I travel with software and help rebuild their crippled, spyware addled PCs.
Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 02, 2006, 11:53:04 PM
This just happened:
<Me> Okay, so what's the problem? <Brother> So I, uh, put this CD in the CD thingie and then tipped over the PC to plug in my headph- <Me> Wait, while it was still on and the CD was in the tray? <Brother> Yeah. <Me> Okay... <Brother> Yeah, so now the CD thingie isn't working.
Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: morphix on November 02, 2006, 11:58:08 PM
all the time, I get called on all the time and I don't even keep up with the crap anymore.
Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: cubicle47b on November 03, 2006, 12:06:30 AM
I just shrug and say, "I have no idea what you did. Just because I'm a programmer doesn't mean I know the myriad of ways you fucked up your Windows installation."
Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on November 03, 2006, 12:07:30 AM
If my family has problems with the computer "being slow" or "acting weird", it is almost always spyware.
Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: cubicle47b on November 03, 2006, 12:11:45 AM
Pretty much. And I put the holy trinity of free shit on to protect them (AVG, Spybot, Adaware) but that's not enough somehow.
Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: Mupepe on November 03, 2006, 01:18:19 AM
My mom doesn't fool with computers and the one she has she is able to keep clean from spyware. I'm more of tech support for my significant other at the time. Gets annoying as fuck.
Title: Re: Do you ever feel like cheap tech support for loved ones?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 03, 2006, 02:37:11 AM