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  • Yay for wackos.

    Young guy comes into my store today and starts rambling on about how his neighbour is somehow hacking into his cell phone and preventing him from making calls from it and cutting off the wifi and making the GPS turn on and off. One of the highlights was "I unplug my computer, change the password on it, plug it back in, and they are still on it". He also (according to him) buys a new phone every week and replaces his computer at least once a month. According to him, he will pay me $70 per hr to fix this for him. At this point I figure that he is completely wacko so I tell him as politely as I can that I cannot help him and he needs to go to the police. He walks away muttering that he never thought of that and he will do it immediately.
    "Employees can make or break any business, so treat them with respect. Job satisfaction has little to do with money. Discover what it has to do with and make sure they get it."

  • #2
    Somehow I don't think the police will help him either.

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    • #3
      No, but they might refer him to some nice young men in clean white coats who could help him... or at least make him worry about something other than IT security.
      - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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      • #4
        Quoth Argabarga View Post
        No, but they might refer him to some nice young men in clean white coats who could help him... or at least make him worry about something other than IT security.
        But I did, I did see an elephant in my birdbath!
        Sure, sure, I know, I keep a giraffe in mine....
        The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom

        Now queen of USSR-Land...

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        • #5
          Quoth Argabarga View Post
          No, but they might refer him to some nice young men in clean white coats who could help him... or at least make him worry about something other than IT security.
          Or they could PC him until the drugs wear off.

          Quoth fireheart View Post
          But I did, I did see an elephant in my birdbath!
          Sure, sure, I know, I keep a giraffe in mine....
          When we moved into a house adjacent to 200 acres of woods with lots of critters my wife bought a book on scat and tracks. In the notes section at the end of the book I drew a set of tracks and labeled it "Common North American Land Whale" (Basically a series of large ovals with large vaguely flipper shapes behind each oval).

          Years later one spring the snow in our back yard happened to melt in a familiar looking pattern. Cue me grabbing the book and jumping up and down pointing out the window while shouting at my wife, "The land whale was here! The Land whale was here!"
          You'll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious.

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          • #6
            I'm confused. I thought the Land Whale was tropical...?

            "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
            Still A Customer."

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            • #7
              Quoth Jester View Post
              I'm confused. I thought the Land Whale was tropical...?
              The North American Land Whale is migratory. Some people say it gets as far North as Canada. Others say Toronto.
              You'll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious.

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              • #8
                So, if it's migratory, and it was in your backyard in winter...does that mean it migrates south for the SUMMER?

                "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                Still A Customer."

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                • #9
                  Quoth Jester View Post
                  So, if it's migratory, and it was in your backyard in winter...does that mean it migrates south for the SUMMER?
                  It was actually early spring when we saw the tracks. My wife argued that it was too early for Land Whales to be back this far North as the snow was still melting. I pointed to the tracks and responded that the tracks don't lie!
                  You'll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Caractacus_Potts View Post
                    ... and responded that the tracks don't lie!
                    And she responded that liars had better start making tracks...
                    I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                    Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                    Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Argabarga View Post
                      No, but they might refer him to some nice young men in clean white coats who could help him... or at least make him worry about something other than IT security.
                      Hmmm . . . .

                      *wheels start creaking*

                      Perhaps it's time to worry about the birds . . .

                      I mean it is that time of year for the bird to begin migrating, isn't it?
                      Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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                      • #12
                        Well, last night I saw an elephant in my pajamas. How it got in my pajamas I'll never know.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth An Haddock View Post
                          Well, last night I saw an elephant in my pajamas. How it got in my pajamas I'll never know.
                          We tried for days to get the tusks out. Of course, in Alabama, the Tuscaloosa, but that's completely "irrelephant" to what I was talking about.
                          PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.

                          There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!

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                          • #14
                            Quoth An Haddock View Post
                            Well, last night I saw an elephant in my pajamas. How it got in my pajamas I'll never know.
                            I want to know how many people read this in a Groucho Marx voice.
                            "They gave me a badge with my name on it. In case I forget who I am." Dr Who - Closing Time

                            "I reject your reality and substitute my own." Adam Savage-Mythbusters

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Argabarga View Post
                              No, but they might refer him to some nice young men in clean white coats who could help him... or at least make him worry about something other than IT security.
                              Thy're Coming To Take Me Away

                              The funny thing is the B side of the 45 (which I have somewhere in my collection bought new) of this is the song played backwards.
                              I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                              -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


                              "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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