Profanity in his Windows XP Activation Key

[mrtauntaun]

We had this one SC when I worked in computer retail sales who was just nuts. He was a SC in the store while he was purchasing his PC. Now, his later actions were so bad that I've completly forgotten his stupidity during purchase (Only so much storage space in the brain). So, for sake of arguement, it was not a fun time selling him the machine.

All seems well for a few days, and then he calls back saying he can't turn his computer on. All he gets is a welcome to windows screen. The first time you boot up, you get this screen to enter your product key (which is on a sticker on the computer). The way we set up our builds, the key was already typed in for the customer, they just had to hit enter. So I told him just keep clicking next and he would be fine. He was at work (of course!) and would try that when he got home.

Next day, I get an angry call from the head of our Company's service department that this guy was in our main store (bout 50 miles from us) screaming his head off that someone was insulting him through his computer. Turns out, his product key had the letters FCUK in it, and he though we did it on purpose to get back at him. He was livid. He did not understand that Microsoft sets these keys, and there was no way on earth we could modify it in anyway. He was at the main office for hours fuming, I was told. He left, saying he was going to call Microsoft and when they told him that we were insulting him, he would be back and we would be sorry.

Not surprisingly, we never heard back from him again.

[Comp_geek]

Fcuk - 0ffu - Dum8 - A55h - 013t

[pbmods]

WHAT is my serial key?

Unsanity has had troubles in the past with this problem, ironically caused because they tried to make their product activation codes more User-friendly.

[One-Fang]

Ha ha. At a previous job, we used two lists of words to generate passwords randomly. We did spend some time trying to think of words that were reasonably innocuous and took out things like "fat" and "head", but we still ended up with some winners.

BlackToe was quite disgusting and I changed it before the user knew of it. The new CEO, however, wasn't too thrilled to have been assigned CreamBush. Nor someone else with WetBush. In hindsight, perhaps Bush was not a great word to include.

[Ree]

I followed that "Unsanity" link and read around a bit. I followed another link and ended up on a page with actual emails that customers sent in reply to "mailer-daemon"

[Dips]

I followed that "Unsanity" link and read around a bit. I followed another link and ended up on a page with actual emails that customers sent in reply to "mailer-daemon"

Those are great! Idiots 21 and 26 are very funny, but Idiot 29 is my favorite.

Look at this here:

> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <sarahstobb@somewhere.com>

You forgot the e on stobbe

WHO forgot the "e" on "stobbe?"

I get emails from customers who reply to automated messages after they submit info via a web form. They can be quite funny.

My favorite was a woman who got an automated reply with instructions for activating. She wrote back stating that she got "this long message" from our site and needed to know "what to do."

It was really hard coming up with a way to tell her to read the message and follow the directions in it without sounding like I was insulting her.

And it went downhill from there.

[repsac]

Well, Jo Wood had problems with this when they released Soldner. I kid you not, the registration key was : RAZ8R-S-J8W8D-777ED

Now, why was that the key? One story I heard was a programmer had gotten fired, but by their contract was required to finish the game. So, he set it up so the CD key read: "Razor f***s Jo Wood. 777 Ed.