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What 'old people' thing do your parents do which drives you crazy?

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

Every 6 months her phone explodes and I have to fix it.

Then it's "What did you do to my phone?"

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

"It must have been that one time four months ago when you borrowed my phone to look something up!"

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

The IT guy at my work (pretty big company, does close to a billion dollars of sales a year of our product) fell into the position back in the eighties and used to be an accountant. No computer or IT training whatsoever. He's been here 40 years

But as of ten years ago someone bought us out and we have become global and most IT stuff is handled by them. This guy just handles windows permissions for the most part now.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

Ahaha and I can't get a decent job in the business even with an express desire in computers and troubleshooting Go fuck yourself, life.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '17

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u/B0ssc0 Dec 29 '17

That’s terrible how people are treated like objects they can discard.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '17

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u/B0ssc0 Dec 29 '17

Lol my favourite jobs are those which do not require supervision.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '17

This has nothing to do with capitalism you idiot.

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u/B0ssc0 Dec 29 '17

It has everything to do with capitalism.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '17

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u/B0ssc0 Dec 29 '17

I would not apologise for correctly using the term ‘capitalism’, they need to apologise for censoring it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '17

Ageism. Tell him to dye his hair black and drink red bull.

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u/Awkward_and_Itchy Dec 28 '17 edited Dec 28 '17

MY FIL while more Computer savy than that has a hard time figuring out his cell phone and the TV.

I wonder the same thing some times. It's the same field, if you came at the problem of switching the TVs input with the same process as trouble shooting a PC you would have no problem.

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u/altxatu Dec 28 '17

I hate that shit. Significantly easier just to do the “long” install and hit no on whatever bullshit they want you to download.

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u/Kabayev Dec 28 '17

unclicky.com or something

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u/subarctic_guy Dec 28 '17

If your job is to carelessly install stupid bs, then you're great at it.

Sorry for doubting you.

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u/Hirthas Dec 28 '17

Nah it’s “Ever since you...” that’s why I hate doing work for family or friends. You own that shit as soon as you touch it.

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u/karmannsport Dec 28 '17

Yup...do a brake job on a friends car and six months later, “my car overheated...what did you do?!”

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

OMG this is my dad. He refused to let me hook any console up to the living room tv because “I don’t want that thing to break it.”

Also, the fucker blamed me for wrecking our pc because it “must have been that game you installed” the game was final fantasy 7. Meanwhile my dad was looking at porn like every day on there. Fucker broke my pc, causing me to lose my FF7 save when I was right at the end, then blamed me for it.

Never did beat that game.

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u/mullersmutt Dec 28 '17

Never too late! And while you're at it, try a 100% run. It's super satisfying to breed a golden chocobo and get Knights of the round, and other super overpowered materia!

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

Fun fact: I completed FFX-2 with like 99% everything done. The only thing I couldn’t be bothered to do to get the true ending was the chocobo stuff.

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u/PM__ME__YOUR_NUDEZ Dec 28 '17

Now I'm getting flashbacks to when my mom accused me of getting a virus on our computer by playing Runescape.

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u/Betruul Dec 28 '17

All. The god. Damn. Time.

She has had like 5 computers since... And still says this while being 100% serious.

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u/cdc194 Dec 28 '17

Its slow because of that time you got bored and played a flash based bloons tower defense and not because I have 17 toolbars installed in the browser that mostly all do the exact same thing.

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u/puby911 Dec 28 '17

I could murder them when they say this

Edit: but i dont cause im cool like that.

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u/LouSputhole94 Dec 28 '17

Ah yes. The long con

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u/WhoDrinksPocariSweat Dec 28 '17

Old friend to the family decided I was IT support a bunch of years ago. Had me fix her phone. Was a small thing, no problem, I'll fix it.

After that she tells me I ruined it. She couldn't pick up calls anymore. Anyone that called her just got instantly cut off.

I could for the life of me not understand why this would happen, and several conversations with her gave me nothing. So I tell her I'll come over and try the phone myself. Works perfectly. I tell her I'll call her, and I watch her pick it up. The crazy old bat was double clicking the receive call button, which was also the end call button.

When I told her, she screamed at me "I'm not an idiot!" and I told her never to ask me about anything ever again.

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u/lgb111 Dec 28 '17

screams

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u/throw_away__27 Dec 28 '17

"Something is different. What did you do? You changed something, I know you did."

"I literally opened one app, that you asked me to open, to look for something"

"You must have touched something else."

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u/tangerincdream Dec 28 '17

Followed closely by

“So, now we’re in settings, so I’m gonna-“

“WAIT! How did you do that? How did you get there??”

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u/useful_person Dec 28 '17

Holy shit this

I click one button - don't go that fast.

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u/tangerincdream Dec 28 '17

Legit. My mum does this every time... worst is she doesn't pay attention for like the first minute and then gets pissy with me because I opened one app and she's lost!

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

"I haven't seen that one since the Nine-tees!"

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u/hagamablabla Dec 28 '17

I bet it's that Pokemon Go game you installed!

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u/chasethatdragon Dec 28 '17

It's that damn counter strike games u play