Caller: So I have an appointment in *city* tomorrow with this place? They do the stuff you do before you get a job? Can you tell me what time it is ( Read more... )

If you call for tech support, and you ask what time the office closes, and your call takes forever because you don't know the basics of how to do sweet fucking ANYTHING? When you finally get your resolution ten minutes after the closing time, you may safely assume that the person you're talking to, on a Friday, after closing time, does not want to ( Read more... )

Dr. Seuss book banned from class for being too 'political'

A BC school board had the Dr. Seuss book Yertle the Turtle banned after a teacher displayed a quote from the book. The horrible, political, divisive quote in question?

"I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here on the bottom, we, too, should have rights."

One, I doubt kids ( Read more... )

Twenty years after the popularization of the Internet, I am allowed to make fun of stuff like this. Admin Coworker took a phone call the other day from a user who wanted to know if she could access our site at night ( Read more... )

Actual request from a client:

I notice the link looks like it’s been clicked already, perhaps that’s because I clicked it prior to sending to test the url.
Can you please have a fresh link for the posting when it goes live?

I - what? Twenty years after the popularization of the internet, with someone who works with computers every day, I have to ( Read more... )

Go from competent-sounding to not in the space of a minute:

User: I'm having a problem printing from your site, but no others. I've tested it on *competitor* and reinstalled my printer drivers and it still occurs. It started right after I switched browsers. Do you think I should change back?

Tech: *happy because they sound competent* If it's ( Read more... )

It's Fountain Lady! - http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2011/01/21/exp.ac.ridiculist.fountainlady.cnn.htmlRead more... )

School District Ends Ban on Dangerous Pointy Writing Implements

For those who do not want to click:

Good news -- the superintendent of the North Brookfield School District in Massachusetts has announced that students are again free to carry their own writing implements, ending a short-lived ban on that practice. He said the ban on this dangerous ( Read more... )

End of an Era? Another Crunch Berries Case Dismissed - Lowering the Bar

Eight of these damned cases? EIGHT? Are...are we in the midst of some kind of cereal-related stupidity-storm, or are these people just thinking "well, it didn't work for THEM but surely it'll work for ME!" Actually, that's probably true. Now, sometime this has merit: for ( Read more... )

A Farewell to Pants - Lowering the Bar

Unsurprisingly, Pants Guy has lost his appeal.

I'll wait for you all to recover your shocked faces. No, really. Go ahead.

Okay.

Best line in the article (though sadly I do not think it was in whatever official documentation the courts put out, even though it should have been):

"...the D.C. Circuit said earlier ( Read more... )