Supertard co-workers ubsurdly dumb questionrs....or begging for elimination from the genepool.

I used to be a senior account manager... now because I had senior in front of my job title I was basically an assistant manager, but in order for the company to get away with not having to grant the seniors managerial pay/benefits/vacation they just tagged senior to our title, gave us a measly $1 more per hour, and all the supervisors dumped their bitch work on us. but i digress.

Anyway, part of being on the senior team meant we were part of a mailing list where people would email questions and one of us would respond back.

Some of those gems include, but are not limited to:

"I received an order from my sales rep and some of the fields say "N/A". What does "N/A" mean?" ... almost in unison all seniors reply back "Not Applicable"... However one senior went into great detail about how N/A or NA is universally used in almost all facets of form-filling and is amazed the original person had never seen or used the acronym up until that day.

"How do I CC people on an email?"

"That thingy at the bottom of my computer screen is now going along the side of my screen"

"Can you guys do this order for me. I don't know how and it'll be faster for you to do it for me instead of teaching me"

I guess all the good ones I had you kind of have to be in the telecom business and know the jargon...

then there were the people who ran to your desk in a panic, expecting you to drop everything you're doing and deal with their "crisis".

Coworker running in, pale faced and shaking, almost crying... "PLEASE HELP! My computer completely died and all my stuff was saved on it and I have a major order that's supposed to go in TODAY!!" ...ok I think, I'll go see what's wrong. So I go to her desk and I hear the unmistakable sound of a computer fan happily whirling away and all the lights on her CPU were on... So I look at her monitor, little green light is on, but in her defense the screen was black. so I say "well, the good news is your computer is still on, so all may not be lost. We'll just have to call maintenance up here to make sure nothing came loose" (it was against company policy to mess with any wiring, even making sure the monitor was plugged in). As I reached to pick up her phone I bumped the mouse and the computer blinked on. The screensaver was defaulted to be a blank screen. You'd think that would be the end of it... but she just couldn't comprehend what a screensaver was and why it "turned off" her computer. After spending 20 minutes in vain, trying to tell her the computer wasn't turned off in anyway, I just set the screensaver to never turn on.

EDIT: Because of that, I was deemed a "computer whiz" and every time someone had a minuscule common-knowledge computer "failure" they came to me... which made me remember on time a guy came in and was going on some rant, "HOW DO THEY EXPECT US TO FILL OUT A FORM THAT'S TOO BIG FOR THE COMPUTER?" and I was like "erm... ok let me see what you're talking about" so I follow him as he stomps to his desk and he's like "LOOK! I need to fill this out all the way to the bottom, but it's physically IMPOSSIBLE to scroll down to the bottom!!" I look at the screen and see the screen is only scrolled about halfway down... so I reach for his mouse, but it's not on the mouse pad... I look and it's across the desk as far as the wire will allow. "Erm, why is your mouse all the way over there?" and he was like "I was trying to scroll the page down and that's as far as the mouse will go!! I'm telling you, this form is too long, it's out of my mouse's reach!" I just calmly pick the mouse up, place it on the mouse pad and say "you know you can pick the mouse up if you need to" to which he replies "NO, it's a laser mouse and the laser has to be on a surface at all times!" and I was like "Erm, no, it works just like any other mouse. It also has a wheel on it you can use to scroll... see" the guy just stands there in disbelief and says "I'll just use the wheel. I don't trust a laser not touching the surface."

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