Thursday, 2 August 2012

I Hate Playing a PC S.W.A.T. Team on the Phone

...10 minutes into a highly unproductive phone call...
...
- Uh, forget it, just zip the files and send them to me. I'll see what I can do.
/after a 10 second silence/
- Do... what?
- Archive the files we were just talking about and mail them to me.
- ummm... how do I do that?
- Do you have the folder with the files opened in front of you?
...
...after 10 more minutes...
...
- You know, I haven't sent a mail with an attachment for a long time now. Can you just...


Yeah. Trying to explain how to do a task to a computer-illiterate friend or family member can really f*ck your day up.

And this is how I feel:

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