So yeah, I just received a voice mail from one of our executives because he can't figure out how to use the power supply for his external hard drive. The hard drive's power adaptor has three different plugs (one for 110V, another for 220V and a third for European connections), and you just slide one of the plugs into place until it clicks and voila, you have a power adaptor that plugs into the wall.
*facepalm*
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:12 pm
by Johnny Hotcakes
Your avatar accompanies that paragraph perfectly.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:15 pm
by Sabo
Zlax46 wrote:Your avatar accompanies that paragraph perfectly.
That look has become my standard appearance when performing work duties.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:28 pm
by A_B
Obas wrote:
Zlax46 wrote:Your avatar accompanies that paragraph perfectly.
That look has become my standard appearance when performing work duties.
Nice traps. you been working out?
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:55 pm
by Test Ride the Sybian
Obas wrote:
Zlax46 wrote:Your avatar accompanies that paragraph perfectly.
That look has become my standard appearance when performing work duties.
Who is that, anyways?
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:59 pm
by Keg
Desmond Bryant
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 3:02 pm
by ZMan
Test Ride the Sybian wrote:Who is that, anyways?
pony_keg wrote:Desmond Bryant
Who's blowing him?
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 1:07 pm
by Sabo
Someone from my company e-mailed me and asked if it's OK for them to order $12,000 worth of software. Did some digging, and found out they were approved to make the purchase last fall, but they're just now getting around to placing the order. So yes, in my company, someone will wait nine months between getting approval and wanting to order the software, never mind that it's a different fiscal year.
*facepalm*
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:00 pm
by Scottie
Sabo wrote:Someone from my company e-mailed me and asked if it's OK for them to order $12,000 worth of software. Did some digging, and found out they were approved to make the purchase last fall, but they're just now getting around to placing the order. So yes, in my company, someone will wait nine months between getting approval and wanting to order the software, never mind that it's a different fiscal year.
*facepalm*
I often work in banks. One of the simpler jobs I had this week was to replace every monitor on each PC in a TD branch. That's pretty much plug'n'play. Very nice new monitors, widescreen, replacing squarish out-dated old ones. Simple enough, right? Every single employee in that branch panicked. "Hang on! I have to back up all of my files!!!" No it's just your computer's television is being replaced. The PC is not affected. Not in any conceivable way. "But all of my spreadsheets! My passwords!!!".
"It's just . . . know what? Go ahead. Do a full back up."
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:34 pm
by The Sybian
Scottie wrote:
Sabo wrote:Someone from my company e-mailed me and asked if it's OK for them to order $12,000 worth of software. Did some digging, and found out they were approved to make the purchase last fall, but they're just now getting around to placing the order. So yes, in my company, someone will wait nine months between getting approval and wanting to order the software, never mind that it's a different fiscal year.
*facepalm*
I often work in banks. One of the simpler jobs I had this week was to replace every monitor on each PC in a TD branch. That's pretty much plug'n'play. Very nice new monitors, widescreen, replacing squarish out-dated old ones. Simple enough, right? Every single employee in that branch panicked. "Hang on! I have to back up all of my files!!!" No it's just your computer's television is being replaced. The PC is not affected. Not in any conceivable way. "But all of my spreadsheets! My passwords!!!".
"It's just . . . know what? Go ahead. Do a full back up."
What they really meant was, "Oh fuck, computer guy! He is going to see the doggie pron I watched last week. Let me quickly delete my browser history and my pron cache just in case you look at anything in my hard drive while you switch out monitors."
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:39 pm
by rass
The Sybian wrote:
Scottie wrote:
Sabo wrote:Someone from my company e-mailed me and asked if it's OK for them to order $12,000 worth of software. Did some digging, and found out they were approved to make the purchase last fall, but they're just now getting around to placing the order. So yes, in my company, someone will wait nine months between getting approval and wanting to order the software, never mind that it's a different fiscal year.
*facepalm*
I often work in banks. One of the simpler jobs I had this week was to replace every monitor on each PC in a TD branch. That's pretty much plug'n'play. Very nice new monitors, widescreen, replacing squarish out-dated old ones. Simple enough, right? Every single employee in that branch panicked. "Hang on! I have to back up all of my files!!!" No it's just your computer's television is being replaced. The PC is not affected. Not in any conceivable way. "But all of my spreadsheets! My passwords!!!".
"It's just . . . know what? Go ahead. Do a full back up."
What they really meant was, "Oh fuck, computer guy! He is going to see the doggie pron I watched last week. Let me quickly delete my browser history and my pron cache just in case you look at anything in my hard drive while you switch out monitors."
Oh man, is that a saluki hair on his shirt? I think it is, oh no, oh...oh...UUUUUUUggggggggnnnnnnhhhHHHHHH
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 4:45 pm
by Scottie
My favorite question was "Do I still get Google?" Yes, you still get Google.
And the weirdest question I had was from this 50-something clerk who asked, and I'm not kidding, she really poised this baffling statement: "Do you like Clint Eastwood movies?"
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 5:09 pm
by howard
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:19 am
by DaveInSeattle
I went to a Meetup group thing tonight, and met this cool guy, who happened to be blind. When I left I said "Good to see you".
****face palm*****
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:20 am
by A_B
AussieDave wrote:I went to a Meetup group thing tonight, and met this cool guy, who happened to be blind. When I left I said "Good to see you".
****face palm*****
Hope you flipped him off at the same time.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:27 am
by Sabo
AussieDave wrote:I went to a Meetup group thing tonight, and met this cool guy, who happened to be blind. When I left I said "Good to see you".
****face palm*****
Are you Ryan Seacrest in disguise?
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:08 am
by Sabo
One of my users just e-mailed me to ask me what time it is.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:13 am
by brian
Sabo wrote:One of my users just e-mailed me to ask me what time it is.
OK, I think they're just trolling you now.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:17 am
by A_B
Camaro J got nothing on MacAdmin J.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:22 am
by Sabo
brian wrote:
Sabo wrote:One of my users just e-mailed me to ask me what time it is.
OK, I think they're just trolling you now.
Here's the context:
User wrote:Scott mentioned that you needed to restart the (Mac) server today. If you can tell me when, I will let all of the staff know so there will not be any unexpected interruption.
Sabo wrote:We were hoping to do it at noon. Will that time work?
User wrote:Is it noon now?
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:35 am
by rass
It was just after noon Eastern time when you posted that. Is there some time zone confusion going on?
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 12:01 pm
by Sabo
No, the user is based in the Eastern time zone. I think the user just lost his head for a bit. He's actually a pretty cool guy and a good designer. It's just weird getting an e-mail from someone asking me what time it is.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:31 am
by rass
A co-worker (we're a software company, not an IT group or anything like that) just got the following email from a customer, with no other context or prior discussion:
Subject: Printer problem
Body: Here is the printer with the issue
Attachment:
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:45 am
by mister d
Flip the picture 180 degrees, send it back with "try this?"
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:04 am
by P.D.X.
Halloween night I was at a bar right at closing talking to this girl and complimented her on her make-up job. Then the lights went on and I realized it was rosacea.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:06 am
by Sabo
P.D.X. wrote:Halloween night I was at a bar right at closing talking to this girl and complimented her on her make-up job. Then the lights went on and I realized it was rosacea.
Ouch. How did she react?
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:19 am
by mister d
"She might have been embarrassed but I couldn't tell."
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:21 am
by A_B
P.D.X. wrote:Halloween night I was at a bar right at closing talking to this girl and complimented her on her make-up job. Then the lights went on and I realized it was rosacea.
I hope you didn't make any rash decisions.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:44 am
by P.D.X.
Sabo wrote:
P.D.X. wrote:Halloween night I was at a bar right at closing talking to this girl and complimented her on her make-up job. Then the lights went on and I realized it was rosacea.
Ouch. How did she react?
The strange thing was she just rolled with it.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 5:47 pm
by sancarlos
P.D.X. wrote:
Sabo wrote:
P.D.X. wrote:Halloween night I was at a bar right at closing talking to this girl and complimented her on her make-up job. Then the lights went on and I realized it was rosacea.
Ouch. How did she react?
The strange thing was she just rolled with it.
When the girl wants the pdx body, she'll overlook his comments.
Re: The OFFICIAL Facepalm Thread
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 2:05 pm
by rass
rass wrote:A co-worker (we're a software company, not an IT group or anything like that) just got the following email from a customer, with no other context or prior discussion:
