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Post by afriendlychicken on Sept 10, 2012 15:51:17 GMT -5
i'm bumping this because i just took the most idiotic call at work - this might be the stupidest one i've taken all year. caller: yeah, i was calling (first of all, i hate it when someone opens with that - of COURSE you're calling!) - and i bought some cds at a yard sale this weekend and i was wondering if you could tell me if this one cd here is country or what. me: duhhh, okay. wait, what? caller: wait, let me get it. okay, the lost trailers. are they country? me: .....what do they sound like? caller: i haven't put it in the cd player yet. me (after a two second google search): country. caller: okay, thanks. okay, maybe she wasn't around a cd player. that's possible. but still. if she bought it over the weekend, it seems she would have had a chance to find out for herself instead of calling a radio station to ask. she could have asked the person at the yard sale. but call a radio station? how much trouble would it have been to stick it in her freaking cd player?? I feel your pain. I worked in music stores and...yep, I feel your pain. "Do you have that song that goes da-da-da-da-da something something I love you?" Yeah, thanks for remembering the lyrics in the song that is in about 6,000,000,000,000 other songs. Jeez!
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Post by nondescript spice on Sept 10, 2012 16:32:54 GMT -5
oh my gosh, yes. back in the day, i worked at a video rental place, and i got many questions like this - do you have the movie....about that guy....you know....he runs? okay, the guy that runs - not the one that just walks, right? sure!
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Post by Crowfan on Sept 10, 2012 19:37:22 GMT -5
I saw that one last night.
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Post by Skyroniter on Sept 10, 2012 20:10:02 GMT -5
i'm bumping this because i just took the most idiotic call at work - this might be the stupidest one i've taken all year. caller: yeah, i was calling (first of all, i hate it when someone opens with that - of COURSE you're calling!) - and i bought some cds at a yard sale this weekend and i was wondering if you could tell me if this one cd here is country or what. me: duhhh, okay. wait, what? caller: wait, let me get it. okay, the lost trailers. are they country? me: .....what do they sound like? caller: i haven't put it in the cd player yet. me (after a two second google search): country. caller: okay, thanks. okay, maybe she wasn't around a cd player. that's possible. but still. if she bought it over the weekend, it seems she would have had a chance to find out for herself instead of calling a radio station to ask. she could have asked the person at the yard sale. but call a radio station? how much trouble would it have been to stick it in her freaking cd player?? I feel your pain. I worked in music stores and...yep, I feel your pain. "Do you have that song that goes da-da-da-da-da something something I love you?" Yeah, thanks for remembering the lyrics in the song that is in about 6,000,000,000,000 other songs. Jeez! Da-Da-Da is by Trio. Great song on a great album. Volkswagen used it in a commercial. No need to thank me. Glad the help.
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Post by nondescript spice on Sept 25, 2012 15:46:40 GMT -5
the guy from my office i complain most about in this thread keeps bugging me by showing me "snuffy smith" comics. wtf?
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Post by CBG on Sept 25, 2012 15:49:54 GMT -5
Wow...Next it'll be Beetle Bailey and Hagar the Horrible...how awful for you.
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Post by Torgo on Sept 25, 2012 15:54:36 GMT -5
He's hitting on you and impressing you with his sense of humor.
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Post by nondescript spice on Sept 26, 2012 10:17:25 GMT -5
^i could start a whole other thread on that topic alone.
our newspaper has all the old comics no one reads anymore unless you are a wwII survivor. who was that bald little kid that never spoke - henry? we have him. we have donald duck, mickey mouse, hi and lois - it's embarrassing how lame it is. but he loves them. so occasionally i have to sit, trapped at my desk, while he READS them to me. "and in the second panel, dagwood says..."
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Post by CBG on Sept 28, 2012 10:05:00 GMT -5
killmenow!
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Post by afriendlychicken on Sept 30, 2012 23:40:41 GMT -5
I feel your pain. I worked in music stores and...yep, I feel your pain. "Do you have that song that goes da-da-da-da-da something something I love you?" Yeah, thanks for remembering the lyrics in the song that is in about 6,000,000,000,000 other songs. Jeez! Da-Da-Da is by Trio. Great song on a great album. Volkswagen used it in a commercial. No need to thank me. Glad the help. Why I ought-ta!!
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Post by nondescript spice on Mar 31, 2014 14:29:31 GMT -5
i gotta bump this before i hurt someone. how is it that a co-worker can spend SO much time in front of a computer, yet need me to do the most simple tasks for him? "spice, how does this thing double space?" wtf? seriously? you can't even double space? "spice, how do i send an attachment?" "spice, can you scan this for me, even though you've shown me half a dozen times how to do it and even wrote out instructions that i've ignored?" "spice, why do you make that face when i ask you the same freaking questions every day and never retain any of what you show me how to do?" he thinks as long as he affectionately refers to me as a "computer genius" (which i am assuredly am not by any stretch), it's okay to call me over to his desk a dozen times a day.
he couldn't get a fax to go through. "this stupid fax ain't worth carrying home." (?) "it don't work." he graduated college but has no grasp on proper grammar and can't spell ANYTHING. and aside from the thousands of words he can't spell, i'm betting he really can't spell the word "anything." he just calls out - "how do you spell - ________?" and at first i guess it didn't bother me as much. but when i'm in the middle of something and he interrupts me because he can't spell a word like "economics" or "factory" it just makes my head want to explode. now when he asks how to spell something, i usually answer, "g-o-o-g-l-e." if you type the word in wrong, it will correct it. but you know what he says? "i ain't got time for that." he does have the time to bother me. he's just too spoiled and lazy to do anything for himself. btw, the only reason the fax wouldn't work was because the tray wasn't fully pulled out.
and email! cripes...okay. about all email is basically the same, right? they all do the same things, it's just figuring out where everything is. i put our office email on gmail because i find it pretty simple to use. but he refuses to become familiar with it. he'll tap around for MAYBE half a minute before throwing his hands up and declaring it's stupid. like a six year old would. "ain't nobody can use that thing, it's stupid. it don't work." it makes me insane. if you can't master gmail, then how in the hell do you do a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g?
/rant(for now)
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Post by afriendlychicken on Mar 31, 2014 18:13:57 GMT -5
i gotta bump this before i hurt someone. how is it that a co-worker can spend SO much time in front of a computer, yet need me to do the most simple tasks for him? "spice, how does this thing double space?" wtf? seriously? you can't even double space? "spice, how do i send an attachment?" "spice, can you scan this for me, even though you've shown me half a dozen times how to do it and even wrote out instructions that i've ignored?" "spice, why do you make that face when i ask you the same freaking questions every day and never retain any of what you show me how to do?" he thinks as long as he affectionately refers to me as a "computer genius" (which i am assuredly am not by any stretch), it's okay to call me over to his desk a dozen times a day. he couldn't get a fax to go through. "this stupid fax ain't worth carrying home." (?) "it don't work." he graduated college but has no grasp on proper grammar and can't spell ANYTHING. and aside from the thousands of words he can't spell, i'm betting he really can't spell the word "anything." he just calls out - "how do you spell - ________?" and at first i guess it didn't bother me as much. but when i'm in the middle of something and he interrupts me because he can't spell a word like "economics" or "factory" it just makes my head want to explode. now when he asks how to spell something, i usually answer, "g-o-o-g-l-e." if you type the word in wrong, it will correct it. but you know what he says? "i ain't got time for that." he does have the time to bother me. he's just too spoiled and lazy to do anything for himself. btw, the only reason the fax wouldn't work was because the tray wasn't fully pulled out. and email! cripes...okay. about all email is basically the same, right? they all do the same things, it's just figuring out where everything is. i put our office email on gmail because i find it pretty simple to use. but he refuses to become familiar with it. he'll tap around for MAYBE half a minute before throwing his hands up and declaring it's stupid. like a six year old would. "ain't nobody can use that thing, it's stupid. it don't work." it makes me insane. if you can't master gmail, then how in the hell do you do a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g? /rant(for now) There's no help for the hopelessly stupid. Maybe we should raise money for them? Maybe host a telethon? I know, we'll have a lolo telethon! A telethon for the incurable idiots out there. Yep, I can just imagine it now...(NQSFW) ...then again, maybe there is no help.
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 1, 2014 9:07:23 GMT -5
ha - i think you nailed it. or as my dad likes to say - there's no cure for stupid.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Apr 3, 2014 15:53:32 GMT -5
And you hear parents saying that the education system is terrible and teachers don't know what they're doing when about 10 to 20% of students are just like that guy.
I've seen students talk to a student that looks on the surface to be an ordinary student. Had them repeat something out loud in front of the class about 20 times. Then 15 minutes later asked them about it and they had no memory of ever hearing it and a half dozen students backed them up. I've come the conclusion that they are not lying. The have absolutely no memory skills or patience what so ever.
If you put them in their own class so they don't slow everyone else down, they learn nothing because they have little to no motivation to learn anything. If you mix them with more motivated students, you risk losing the motivated students because they get sick of going over the same basic things over and over again.
How do you motivate the willfully ignorant?
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 4, 2014 15:27:02 GMT -5
I've seen students talk to a student that looks on the surface to be an ordinary student. Had them repeat something out loud in front of the class about 20 times. Then 15 minutes later asked them about it and they had no memory of ever hearing it and a half dozen students backed them up. I've come the conclusion that they are not lying. The have absolutely no memory skills or patience what so ever. social media & the internet is responsible for that. no one has to memorize anything anymore. i haven't memorized a phone number in ages. ditto on the patience thing. i know i'm guilty of that. plus, there is just a healthy mix of people who live in their own little worlds and look for shiny objects to put in their nests. and this doesn't have anything to do with what you said, but it reminded me of something else that pisses me off about the guy i was complaining ranting about. he repeats everything. compulsively. incessantly. for instance, say it's cold outside. "boy, it's sure cold out." a few seconds later "yeah, it's cold out there." a few seconds later i don't know about you, but i'm ready for spring. it's COLD out there today! maybe a couple of minutes later "yeahhhhh...i don't like this weather. it's too cold." OMG!!! he's 95% mynah bird! i'm at my desk, toes curled, breaking pencils with my clenched fists, steam coming out of my ears because i want to shove his face in a pile of snow until it freezes off.
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