We are breeding a world of IDIOTS!

Martin, you're forgetting something. The intelligent people aren't the ones answering phones.

 

The same people are found at:

1) Burger Kings
2) McDonald's
3) Taco Bell
4) Dell
5) WalMart
6) KMART
7) Radio Shack
8) Bowling Alleys
9) KFC
10) McDonald's (worthy of two entries)
11) Starbucks
12) Restaurants
13) Gary Greens phone book
14) Best Buy
15) FRY'S ELECTRONICS
16) At my door wearing a suit with bibles
17) Gas stations
18) 7/11's
19) Just about every store in every mall
20) Theme parks

Shall I continue?

 

LOL That one i will belive. A co worker had so much problems with his Dell that he gave up and shot it after the warranty was out and sent it back to them. They called him and asked him if there was something wrong with it LOL

 

ROFL.

 

So true, especially out here with all the momo's.

 

Martin,
Check what operating system you are using and what model printer you have, then get on the web and go to HP's website. All of their printer drivers are available for download. Don't waste your time on hold.
Rgds,
Faisal.

 

Martin,

Ditto....HP has a good website to navigate to this stuff...

 

In my neck of the woods Burger King is bad, really bad. If they could just speak english maybe they could take your order.

 

Peters, are you forgetting that all the people on your list took their training at the DMV?

 

Horsefly..AND the Post Office!

 

COME ON!!! No one mentioned United Airlines or SBC! My favorite are the ones with the drool AND the chips on their shoulders (everyones favorite cop rejects) ... Parking enforcement!

DL

 

Man! What a pain in the rear! I couldn't resist with the White House ribbing though!

Is the Canon of the same quality?

 

And good thing you didnt give your friend all of that hassle!

 

actually, not likely. those are jobs where personelle are necessary to keep in house. jobs like hp tech support can be outsourced to someone who doesn't speak english, doesn't live in this country and most of all, doesn't have technical skills.

this isn't to blanket the entire field of outsourcing, but for the most part - it is true when it comes to outsourcing technical calls. (I'll leave software development for another rant)

 

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Martin,

A Canon printer will not fare any better if your OS is missing something needed by the printing "subsystem." And if you have already opened the ink-cartridges, Office Max could give you a hard time about the return.

From what you have written, I don't think the problem lies with the printer. It sounds like your OS is missing some file. What is the error message and what is your OS? Post it here and I could try to help you.

The error message should also tell you where it's expecting to find the file, ie. Error: Could not locate c:\windows\system32\file.xyz. Look for that file with google, and if you find it, try putting it where the OS is expecting to find it.

Give it a shot. It's not much more to try when you consider the time wasted unpacking, trying to install, holding for tech support, repacking, and the trips to Office Max.

Rgds,
Faisal.

 

Horsefly...That picture was funny enough........... then I realized it was MY office! LMAO!!!

 

Actually, 1500 Pennsylvania Ave is the Treasury Dept.. That's about 2 blocks from the hotel I live at. I'll stop by and get your junk mail if you want

On topic, the guy who sits next to me at work was on the phone with his company's (Accenture...) tech support for about an hour, yelling at everyone there. Turns out they outsourced to India a while back. Poor tech guy didn't even know what Accenture's intranet site was... couldn't fix the guy's password without even knowing their main portal for internal information. Sad world we've come to...

-R

 

Here is an 'HP Sucks' forum for ya!!!!

http://mike-johanning.togetherhost.com/hp_sucks/index.php

 

Mark E had a post on the old boardwhich made sense of how there could be so many idiots in the world. In a nutshell, it uses some pretty basic statistics suggest that if your IQ is 130, 84% of the population appears retarded to you, 50% of that population appear appearing severly retarded. The argument is based on a normal distribution of IQ's, with 50% of IQ's begin above 100, and 50% below. It is so intriguing because it suggests that since an iq of 85 is retarded, anyone with an IQ 15pts lower than you will seem retarded. An iq of 70 is severly retarded, so a person with an iq 30 pts lower (if your IQ is 130, this number is 100) would seem severly retarded to you.

 

Martin, i thought 1600 pennsylvania ave ws your address.

 

Based on that criteria, 98% of the population has dain bramage.