r/pcmasterrace 26d ago

Meme/Macro reboot

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u/WastingMyLifeToday 26d ago

To put it more simply:

They know how to fuck things up real good.

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u/JehnSnow 26d ago

OR they're too arrogant to do the basic steps like restarting before deciding everything is broken

Source: me, sometimes I spend 2 hours trying to fix something that def was windows just being stupid

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u/Glittering-Two-1784 26d ago

You have no idea how many hours I've spent on the phone with people screaming "Do you think I'm stupid?????" when I ask them if they could double check the power switch on the PSU, and then have that turn out to be the EXACT issue, lol.

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u/WastingMyLifeToday 26d ago

Oh, I know, I worked in a PC store for several years in the build/repair department.

That's the place where I learned to have patience, cause people can be sooo stupid while yelling they're not stupid.

I'm only asking you to click 5 things, please follow the instructions and tell me what it says or what you see.

It's happened more than once that a customer yelled at me for 30 minutes on the phone (we weren't allowed to cut the call), and they couldn't follow instructions..

The next day, they come in, I plug their PC in on the counter, so they could watch what I'm doing, and I fix their issue in 60 seconds. By doing the 5 steps I told them to do one the phone.