What induces nerd rage in you?

robsam · 2011-08-22T19:22:19.000Z

Remember that rant by Mr. Pants about people poking and touching his monitor, the one a few others agreed with? Yeah, I’m just as bad as he is about that. You can point at the monitor without sticking your greasy fingertips all over it, you inconsiderate bastards. Damn.

jason · 2011-08-23T08:06:29.000Z

If I let you sit down at my computer to show me something, that’s fine. But once you’ve shown me that something, don’t go clicking around my applications or the tabs in my browser, or just randomly surfing the Internet, or reading my email. I gave you permissions to sit at my computer to show me one thing. One. Thing. Now get up.

Mrenda · 2011-08-23T11:07:47.000Z

jason:

If I let you sit down at my computer to show me something, that’s fine. But once you’ve shown me that something, don’t go clicking around my applications or the tabs in my browser, or just randomly surfing the Internet, or reading my email. I gave you permissions to sit at my computer to show me one thing. One. Thing. Now get up.

“But I saw this really funny stand up comedian on youtube! Wait, wait! He gets funny in a minute.”

Bill_Dungsroman · 2011-08-23T11:13:14.000Z

jason:

If I let you sit down at my computer to show me something, that’s fine. But once you’ve shown me that something, don’t go clicking around my applications or the tabs in my browser, or just randomly surfing the Internet, or reading my email. I gave you permissions to sit at my computer to show me one thing. One. Thing. Now get up.

Holy shit, people do this? I would go apeshit if someone did this.

JoshV · 2011-08-23T11:17:56.000Z

Bill Dungsroman:

Holy shit, people do this? I would go apeshit if someone did this.

Yeah, in my country, you’d get hanged for that.

dermot · 2011-08-23T15:52:46.000Z

It drives me nuts when my brother-in-law calls around and connects his iPhone to my laptop. I’ve no idea why it annoys me so much.

McKnight · 2011-08-23T20:01:54.000Z

The British Isles.

Anders_Hallin · 2011-08-23T22:56:48.000Z

I love saying the British Isles :D

Mr_Popov · 2011-08-23T23:14:42.000Z

Timemaster Tim:

People who refer to their PC as “the hard drive”. It’s not just a hard drive! There’s a freakin’ motherboard with a freakin’ CPU and freakin’ RAM in there too!!!

Okay. I’m calmer now.

I work help desk for a hospital chain and nurses that I talk to all the time call the computer “the modem”.

I can’t for the life of me ever understand how this could have ever come under popular usage. Hard drive I kind of understand, but why on earth would the entire computer be called a modem?

jason · 2011-08-24T07:41:10.000Z

The keythingy, the wiggler, the floor box and the TV. When I got my first job doing tech support back in the 90’s, these are the names the employees at the healthcare company I worked for referred to the pieces of their computer by. Someone coined the terms and they spread like wildfire. And all cables were “phone cords”, as in “The keythingy is connected to the floor box with a phone cord, and there is another phone cord going to the wiggler. There is one phone cord connecting the TV to the floor box, and both the floor box and TV are connected to the wall with phone cords.”

Creole_Ned · 2011-08-24T11:19:34.000Z

Wiggler is a great name for the mouse, though.

Calelari · 2011-08-24T13:06:08.000Z

Sounds like a supervillian to me.

salwon · 2011-08-25T06:36:36.000Z

I’ve been having an issue with our software, and finally I took a very detailed set of screenshots outlining exactly what the problem is. I open a ticket, and what’s the response from support? “Please put the pictures in a ppt in order so we can see the issue better.” No, goddammit, is it too fucking hard to just open the pictures in preview and roll through them yourself? What’s the fucking magic of powerpoint that all of a sudden makes it sooo much easier to see five fucking pictures?

Aquarian · 2011-08-25T06:42:35.000Z

People who refer to the Magic Kingdom as Disney World. Like, “We went to Florida and I went to Disney World on Tuesday and Epcot on Wednesday.” No, you went to Disney World both days.

Omniscia · 2011-08-25T06:42:58.000Z

Why Powerpoint? Why not just paste it into a Word document like everyone else does?

dermot · 2011-08-25T07:47:05.000Z

Whatever. Just make sure you crop the picture so that the most pertinent piece of information - the URL of the troublesome web-page, for example - is missing.

Mr_Popov · 2011-08-25T14:24:59.000Z

I absolutely rage when I type blahblahblah.co, when at work cuz it breaks IE and I have to end task.

Thoro · 2011-08-25T14:41:05.000Z

People who still use IE.

;)

Calelari · 2011-08-25T19:20:19.000Z

Omniscia:

Why Powerpoint? Why not just paste it into a Word document like everyone else does?

The proper way is to print out the screenshots, photograph them on a wooden surface, and then paste the pictures into a Word document. Which you then include in the ticket.

salwon · 2011-08-26T06:24:13.000Z

Powerpoint’s good for flipping through pictures and tracking changes. But so is the windows preview program, and then I don’t have to resize my pictures to fit on a powerpoint slide. I’m assuming this guy didn’t want to have to download five things instead of one, so he had me do the extra work.