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Thread title is a bit misleading. Because they did do something.
I troubleshoot peoples' computers on occasion for "free," though they insist on paying me. I'm okay with that, I suppose.
One person called me up because his computer froze for some inexplicable reason. Note that this is a person who I've spent two years with and keeps forgetting how to copy and paste or what they do. His computer freezes, and the first thing he does is go into the room where his router is kept and unplugs the router entirely. I wasn't about to ask him why he did this, but I do recall showing him what to do if his internet access cut off entirely, it being a wireless router. I type up instructions for him to look at in case of such occurrences.
Had another guy (Someone I used to work for.) having a problem where the mouse cursor wouldn't move at all. He actually threw out his mouse and went to the Radioshack to get a new one and replaced it, and it then worked. Went to his office and looked at the mouse, (He doesn't throw out trash much. ... Had to dig through banana peels. Yuck. Why wouldn't he throw out the trash after having peels in there?!) So I took a look at it and unscrewed the base, and dear lord, there was so much dust in there it had eventually just compacted and gotten encrusted over the cylinders. Grief.
Had a guy who used to put a disc into the A: drive only halfway and expected it to work. He said he didn't want to because he was afraid it wouldn't come out, especially after he watched me do it and saw it get completely sucked into the tower. I pushed the button on it and it extracted itself. Somehow he still didn't believe me and "chose to play it safe."
Also had a woman who would use the A: drive to hold index cards she wasn't using. She was a rubber stamp collector, and would browse patterns in IE while having her cards available. One day one of her cards slipped too far in, and I had to extricate it. Wow that was interesting.
Something entirely unrelated to the problem, and nothing else.
I troubleshoot peoples' computers on occasion for "free," though they insist on paying me. I'm okay with that, I suppose.
One person called me up because his computer froze for some inexplicable reason. Note that this is a person who I've spent two years with and keeps forgetting how to copy and paste or what they do. His computer freezes, and the first thing he does is go into the room where his router is kept and unplugs the router entirely. I wasn't about to ask him why he did this, but I do recall showing him what to do if his internet access cut off entirely, it being a wireless router. I type up instructions for him to look at in case of such occurrences. Had another guy (Someone I used to work for.) having a problem where the mouse cursor wouldn't move at all. He actually threw out his mouse and went to the Radioshack to get a new one and replaced it, and it then worked. Went to his office and looked at the mouse, (He doesn't throw out trash much. ... Had to dig through banana peels. Yuck. Why wouldn't he throw out the trash after having peels in there?!) So I took a look at it and unscrewed the base, and dear lord, there was so much dust in there it had eventually just compacted and gotten encrusted over the cylinders. Grief.
Had a guy who used to put a disc into the A: drive only halfway and expected it to work. He said he didn't want to because he was afraid it wouldn't come out, especially after he watched me do it and saw it get completely sucked into the tower. I pushed the button on it and it extracted itself. Somehow he still didn't believe me and "chose to play it safe."
Also had a woman who would use the A: drive to hold index cards she wasn't using. She was a rubber stamp collector, and would browse patterns in IE while having her cards available. One day one of her cards slipped too far in, and I had to extricate it. Wow that was interesting.
Eric the Grey
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