Army of One Parody
I have noticed recently that people tend to dumb things down thinking that the person that they are talking to is a complete idiot, when in fact they are the one who is an idiot.
Take these two situations I have been in this week:
- We had a meeting after work on Wednesday in which we were being trained on this new program on the computer that allows us to log in and see a calendar of events, psot messages, respond to messages, instant message other employees, etc. BAsically an online community. The pace they were going at was ridiculous. It took them 15 minutes to show us how to open the Internet, go to the website and log in. I was so bored with it, I took some stuff out and started correcting papers. One of the people walking around helping those who needed help, came up to me and ask if this was too fast for me and that's why I was not paying attention. "No, you are going at a pace that a dim-witted monkey could understand, please leave me alone."
- My dad is having difficulties with his computer so I told him I would come over and call Dell tech support. I got on the phone with 'Sean" (some Indian dude I could barely understand) who took 5 minutes asking me to make sure the computer is plugged in. He said, often times, it might not be plugged in. Other ideas he had were: maybe the monitor is turned off, maybe it is on and working but in sleep mode, have you tried resetting it, and other stupid ideas. It took 40 minutes before he came to the conclusion that maybe something is wrong and we could take it in for servicing.
3 comments:
I may have menial knowledge when it comes to computers, but at least I know when I have a connection issue. Like when I tried to hug my Mom and she told me not to touch her.
If you really made that monkey comment that would be awesome
That comment, I did not make.
I like the use of words Ed.
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