Comments on: "Whatever" doesn't get me back that 20 minutes of my life you wasted. http://mou.me.uk/2008/08/28/whatever-doesnt-get-me-back-that-20-minutes-of-my-life-you-wasted/ A little piece of the web Thu, 10 May 2012 10:22:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Recent Links Tagged With "whatever" - JabberTagshttp://mou.me.uk/2008/08/28/whatever-doesnt-get-me-back-that-20-minutes-of-my-life-you-wasted/#comment-921 Recent Links Tagged With "whatever" - JabberTags Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:34:14 +0000 http://mou.me.uk/?p=303#comment-921 [...] Saved by ShiroganeIchigo on Sat 13-12-2008 worried. Saved by B0rn2kill on Thu 11-12-2008 “Whatever” doesn’t get me back that 20 minutes of my life you wasted. Saved by hadesrules on Tue 09-12-2008 Whatever happened to… Saved by SizlinSasuke on Mon [...] [...] Saved by ShiroganeIchigo on Sat 13-12-2008 worried. Saved by B0rn2kill on Thu 11-12-2008 “Whatever” doesn’t get me back that 20 minutes of my life you wasted. Saved by hadesrules on Tue 09-12-2008 Whatever happened to… Saved by SizlinSasuke on Mon [...]

]]> By: mouhttp://mou.me.uk/2008/08/28/whatever-doesnt-get-me-back-that-20-minutes-of-my-life-you-wasted/#comment-920 mou Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:07:46 +0000 http://mou.me.uk/?p=303#comment-920 Its a damn good point - baring my mind my dad is only 55 and he wouldn't know the Internet if it slapped him round the face... it makes me wonder how many years before the population is tech-savvy enough to be able to say to someone "Right, close the window" and be confident they're not literally going to head into their kitchen and shut all their windows. Its a damn good point – baring my mind my dad is only 55 and he wouldn’t know the Internet if it slapped him round the face… it makes me wonder how many years before the population is tech-savvy enough to be able to say to someone “Right, close the window” and be confident they’re not literally going to head into their kitchen and shut all their windows.

]]> By: Nick Kulkarnihttp://mou.me.uk/2008/08/28/whatever-doesnt-get-me-back-that-20-minutes-of-my-life-you-wasted/#comment-919 Nick Kulkarni Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:39:06 +0000 http://mou.me.uk/?p=303#comment-919 I run a small family company that does computers and networks. Every single day we get people who are not our customers calling about products they did not buy from us looking for free technical support.Most of them do not have a clue what they are talking about, have not read the error message or are trying to get an electric can opener to send email via a provider the ceased contract with last month over an ethernet connection to their telephone socket without a modem shortly after stopping their phone line contract and going totally mobile.I too bang my head on the desk regularly whilst keeping my opinions to myself.Sadly the question it raises is: are we as a nation running full tilt in to the information age with a popultation that are as computer literate as the average cave man was good at differntial calculus and nuclear physics?As almost every help desk in this and other continents will tell you this is a global phenomenon, the question that raises is: what is going to happen to the baby boomers who retire in the next 2 years when the government demands they pick up their pension checks from the internet because the closed the local post offices? I run a small family company that does computers and networks. Every single day we get people who are not our customers calling about products they did not buy from us looking for free technical support.

Most of them do not have a clue what they are talking about, have not read the error message or are trying to get an electric can opener to send email via a provider the ceased contract with last month over an ethernet connection to their telephone socket without a modem shortly after stopping their phone line contract and going totally mobile.

I too bang my head on the desk regularly whilst keeping my opinions to myself.

Sadly the question it raises is: are we as a nation running full tilt in to the information age with a popultation that are as computer literate as the average cave man was good at differntial calculus and nuclear physics?

As almost every help desk in this and other continents will tell you this is a global phenomenon, the question that raises is: what is going to happen to the baby boomers who retire in the next 2 years when the government demands they pick up their pension checks from the internet because the closed the local post offices?

]]> By: mouhttp://mou.me.uk/2008/08/28/whatever-doesnt-get-me-back-that-20-minutes-of-my-life-you-wasted/#comment-918 mou Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:50:58 +0000 http://mou.me.uk/?p=303#comment-918 hahaha pure genius!I think if I was as cynical as some of the techies I know, she'd have got a sarcy comment or 2 her way! Thankfully, I worked in customer services through school and part of uni, so I've learnt to keep my opinions to myself and just bang my head off the desk to release the anger ;-) hahaha pure genius!

I think if I was as cynical as some of the techies I know, she’d have got a sarcy comment or 2 her way! Thankfully, I worked in customer services through school and part of uni, so I’ve learnt to keep my opinions to myself and just bang my head off the desk to release the anger ;-)

]]> By: OldTabbyhttp://mou.me.uk/2008/08/28/whatever-doesnt-get-me-back-that-20-minutes-of-my-life-you-wasted/#comment-917 OldTabby Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:38:46 +0000 http://mou.me.uk/?p=303#comment-917 ROFLMAO I'll trade you "time wasters from rocket scientists" anytime!We're a listing site, not program authors, & we only list *Windows* programs. Here's a couple of my top picks from my email: ================================= "I can't get this program to run on my Mac, it says it can't open it. Please help!""I looked all over your site but I can't find a licence code for Windows XP. I just bought a used computer with an XP CD but the people said they didn't have the code for it. Where can I get the code?" ==================================What *I* want to know is how did they manage to contact me, send a problem report or post into our forums when they so obviously must have had help just to turn on their computer!?!? ROFLMAO
I’ll trade you “time wasters from rocket scientists” anytime!

We’re a listing site, not program authors, & we only list *Windows* programs. Here’s a couple of my top picks from my email:
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“I can’t get this program to run on my Mac, it says it can’t open it. Please help!”

“I looked all over your site but I can’t find a licence code for Windows XP. I just bought a used computer with an XP CD but the people said they didn’t have the code for it. Where can I get the code?”
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What *I* want to know is how did they manage to contact me, send a problem report or post into our forums when they so obviously must have had help just to turn on their computer!?!?

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