At one job I kept a multiple fire rubber band gun in my desk. People would come in to ask dumb IT questions, and I would shoot them with it. Can’t do that any more, now I work with the overly sensitive.
When I ran the computer center in the business school at a major Texas univeristy I put up a 4 foot by 6 foot sign that said “Poor planning on your part does not constitue an emergency on our part!”
Got tired of the idiots coming in the labs during the last week of school and asking “Is this the computer Lab? How do I do all of these assignments?”
I also got every stupid question you could imagine:
Student unfolds 5 1/4 in floppy disk and asks if we can get the data off of it...
Student leaves disk in 110 car for 2 days. Disk now looks like a fluffy little pillow. Student cuts open the case and tries to use the disk material by itself and wonders why it wont work.
Student CRAMS floppy disk between two disk drives and wonders where it went...
Student sits in front of computer trying to figure out why it wont work for 15 minutes. Finally comes and asks if computer is broken. I proceed to demonstarte to the student how to turn the monitor on...
I wish I could have used one of these nerf gins on these “students”
Got tired of the idiots coming in the labs during the last week of school and asking “Is this the computer Lab? How do I do all of these assignments?”
I also got every stupid question you could imagine:
Student unfolds 5 1/4 in floppy disk and asks if we can get the data off of it...
Student leaves disk in 110 car for 2 days. Disk now looks like a fluffy little pillow. Student cuts open the case and tries to use the disk material by itself and wonders why it wont work.
Student CRAMS floppy disk between two disk drives and wonders where it went...
Student sits in front of computer trying to figure out why it wont work for 15 minutes. Finally comes and asks if computer is broken. I proceed to demonstrate to the student how to turn the monitor on...
I wish I could have used one of these nerf guns on these “students”