What is the dumbist customer comment/question you've heard?

[slimslob]

Re: What is the dumbist customer comment/question you've heard?

on a side note....glad to see you called yourself the right term: Trekker...don't know where this "Trekkie" thing came from

The same place that the "Whoie" thing came from.

[LNorris]

Re: What is the dumbist customer comment/question you've heard?

I would have stuck my meter leads into vents in the back of the machine and made my meter beep a little, then tell her the best I could do 3/4 impulse. Warp engines are offline and it will cost $250.00 to repair the warp coils.

Sometimes you have to ride a joke if there is someone else around to get a great laugh.
You will get a supporter forever.
Obviously I am a Trekker. There are many of us out there.

on a side note....glad to see you called yourself the right term: Trekker...don't know where this "Trekkie" thing came from

[nmfaxman]

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Went to see a customer about an MX200D that was having a jamming issue. I cleared the jam, and cleaned up the machine. After I was done I started to ask the normal exit questions. Is there anything else I can do? Do you need toner? Etc.... This nice lady asked me "could you please make the machine faster?" To which I replied " Yes ma'am. I just happen to have a voltage controller in my bag that will increase the power input to the copier and make it faster". She looked at me and said " Wow that would be great". I just stood there and looked at the other lady in the office as she was busting a gut laughing.

Some days it doesn't pay to be a smart ass.

I would have stuck my meter leads into vents in the back of the machine and made my meter beep a little, then tell her the best I could do 3/4 impulse. Warp engines are offline and it will cost $250.00 to repair the warp coils.

Sometimes you have to ride a joke if there is someone else around to get a great laugh.
You will get a supporter forever.
Obviously I am a Trekker. There are many of us out there.

[blackcat4866]

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Can I use the machine; while they stared at the machine in pieces.

Sometimes I'll try to use this analogy: So if you took your car to the mechanic and the transmission was on the bench disassembled, would you ask the mechanic if you could take a quick trip to the grocery store? It will only take 10 minutes?

Most of the time the same individuals that cannot understand why they cannot use the copier also do not get the point of this analogy.
=^..^=

Re: What is the dumbist customer comment/question you've heard?

Can I use the machine; while they stared at the machine in pieces.

[mbcruzin]

Re: What is the dumbist customer comment/question you've heard?

Went to see a customer about an MX200D that was having a jamming issue. I cleared the jam, and cleaned up the machine. After I was done I started to ask the normal exit questions. Is there anything else I can do? Do you need toner? Etc.... This nice lady asked me "could you please make the machine faster?" To which I replied " Yes ma'am. I just happen to have a voltage controller in my bag that will increase the power input to the copier and make it faster". She looked at me and said " Wow that would be great". I just stood there and looked at the other lady in the office as she was busting a gut laughing.

Some days it doesn't pay to be a smart ass.

[gwaddle]

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HI went to a KFC a few years back, stepped up to the counter and asked for a bucket of chicken...The young lady looked at me like I had 3 eyes, and said "we don't have buckets, and I've never heard of a bucket of chicken"...So I sang the (what I could remember) "have a bucket of chicken"....song. No help, she's still arguing that they don't sell buckets of chicken...so I asked her to please step outside, and when she did I pointed to the "HUGE REVOLVING BUCKET OF CHICKEN on the sign out front, and said, "you don't sell those"????. At this point the manager came out and said the employee was new and KFC had stopped selling buckets since before she was hired so she could be forgiven for her ignorance. I did get a good size "Box" of chicken on the house for my trouble though. Emujo

Our KFC has buckets.

[fixthecopier]

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Yesterday, one of our guys was at a new customer to set up their scan on a new MP301. He looks at the machine and sees only a fax line. He then informs them that they need a network line to pull this off. The guy thinks for a minute, then ask "Does it need to be permanent"

[DavePo]

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HI went to a KFC a few years back, stepped up to the counter and asked for a bucket of chicken...The young lady looked at me like I had 3 eyes, and said "we don't have buckets, and I've never heard of a bucket of chicken"...So I sang the (what I could remember) "have a bucket of chicken"....song. No help, she's still arguing that they don't sell buckets of chicken...so I asked her to please step outside, and when she did I pointed to the "HUGE REVOLVING BUCKET OF CHICKEN on the sign out front, and said, "you don't sell those"????. At this point the manager came out and said the employee was new and KFC had stopped selling buckets since before she was hired so she could be forgiven for her ignorance. I did get a good size "Box" of chicken on the house for my trouble though. Emujo

Just saw a commercial for KFC this weekend. It had a Colonel Sanders character and they where referring to themselves as Kentucky Fried Chicken. Haven't seen them called that in years. Maybe they will bring back buckets also.

[emujo]

Re: What is the dumbist customer comment/question you've heard?

HI went to a KFC a few years back, stepped up to the counter and asked for a bucket of chicken...The young lady looked at me like I had 3 eyes, and said "we don't have buckets, and I've never heard of a bucket of chicken"...So I sang the (what I could remember) "have a bucket of chicken"....song. No help, she's still arguing that they don't sell buckets of chicken...so I asked her to please step outside, and when she did I pointed to the "HUGE REVOLVING BUCKET OF CHICKEN on the sign out front, and said, "you don't sell those"????. At this point the manager came out and said the employee was new and KFC had stopped selling buckets since before she was hired so she could be forgiven for her ignorance. I did get a good size "Box" of chicken on the house for my trouble though. Emujo

[theengel]

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With educators like that, we should all be able to ride this copy thing out til we get too old. That whole paperless society thing, not very likely in the near future.

So I'm wondering... how do you staple the paperless documents?

[Lagonda]

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.........One day this guy walks up to the counter and says, "Excuse me, excuse me, them wings, is they beef or pork?"...........

Pork of course! we get a lot of flying pigs around this place.

[fixthecopier]

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i went to a school as they had a jam and couldnt find it so they had turned the machine off and on and got a 0000 code .i checked the machine over and it had a jam in the sorter which wasnt visible so i started to strip the sorter down .at last i saw what looked like a piece of paper using my long nose pliers i managed to remove two a4 sheets stapled together .i got the administrater and showed her what i had found and she got the teacher who had caused the jam.
this is where it gets good.i asked her why she had put two sheets of paper stapled together in the machine .she wanted to add some thing onto the originals so she used the bypass.wait for it .she then said she had told the machine it had a staple so i asked her where .she showed me on the touch screen where she had told the machine it had a staple at the top left corner .

With educators like that, we should all be able to ride this copy thing out til we get too old. That whole paperless society thing, not very likely in the near future.

[blsquires]

Re: What is the dumbist customer comment/question you've heard?

i went to a school as they had a jam and couldnt find it so they had turned the machine off and on and got a 0000 code .i checked the machine over and it had a jam in the sorter which wasnt visible so i started to strip the sorter down .at last i saw what looked like a piece of paper using my long nose pliers i managed to remove two a4 sheets stapled together .i got the administrater and showed her what i had found and she got the teacher who had caused the jam.
this is where it gets good.i asked her why she had put two sheets of paper stapled together in the machine .she wanted to add some thing onto the originals so she used the bypass.wait for it .she then said she had told the machine it had a staple so i asked her where .she showed me on the touch screen where she had told the machine it had a staple at the top left corner .

[Exok]

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Not copier related but... In my teens I worked in a fried chicken fast food restaurant. We sold the usual: buckets of fried chicken, hot wings, BBQ ribs, fish & chips.

One day this guy walks up to the counter and says, "Excuse me, excuse me, them wings, is they beef or pork?"

Now I'm sure he meant to ask about the ribs and not the wings but everyone behind the counter started rolling on the floor laughing so hard that the guy turned red and just walked out the door.