Comic #1

The Website is Down!

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:53 pm by Jami

Compiled from true and mostly true tech support calls, The Website is Down demonstrates the ungood that occurs when the incompetent people you work for demand you fix something that isn’t broken.

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6 Responses to “The Website is Down!”

  1. AvatarKevin Bahrt
    1

    I can’t wait for that idiot to realize that you can’t click on a back ground icon :)
    I first heard about that when somebody made a folder on the desktop labeled “horse porn” took a screen shot and set it as the back ground and disabled explorer from the start up menu.

  2. AvatarThomas C
    2

    Is it just me or was that guy running like, 3 or 4 virtual desktops? Pretty funny video, though!

  3. AvatarPaoken
    3

    Ok, that was fucking brilliant.

    I play IT guy and damn if this isnt what you hear, my personal favorite thing I’ve heard is:

    “What do you mean I can’t change my CD player into a DVD burner? This site said I could! So you’re telling me I paid them twenty dollars for nothing?…Can you get my money back? Why would they lie?”

    Hand to god this was an actual conversation I had with a client. lol…

    But it’s good money and easy to fix problems…so what the hell.

  4. AvatarJami
    4
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    @paoken, you must laugh your ass off every day on a regular basis!

  5. AvatarKunoichi
    5

    A friend of mine is a sysadmin, and he always has at least one remote desktop going, and i don’t want to think about how many virtual desktops. Things not to do: be an idiot to the guy who can remote desktop *anyone* on the company server. I have had that power (as an IT person in college) and it is a power hard to resist, especially when computers are magical fuck-up boxes.

    Most common “problem” at a prestigious private liberal arts college: “the sound isn’t working!! what’s wrong?!” “it’s muted. see the system tray? bottom right-hand corner? little speaker with a red circle and line on it? yeah, click that, unmute it…” _-_;;;

  6. AvatarKevin Bahrt
    6

    Someone I know on WoW recently got their internet back and was on. Someone told her to use the internet wisely, my response “screw that, go wild, download vegetable porn” and when she didn’t get the reference I told her to gvideo search “the website is down”. She responded a few minutes later with “you can’t arrange them by penis”. The twelve year olds had no idea what we were talking about.

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