Who Designed This Crap? UPDATE On The 11 Pound Pencil

[myztic_man]

Maybe this is beside the point..

But.. at the end of the article I was surprised that they were thinking of attaching another sheet of Blank Paper....

'BLANK PAPER'

Hmm..... where else could they get blank paper?

How about on the back of the 1 sided sheet they just printed?
Surely you can write comments on there?

 

[LordOja]

haha so true mystic, i mean there were just tons of solutions that were spinning thru my head as i was reding the article

and as for me i used to work as an aide to the IT manger at the school distric office and oh man do those people even know how a computer works?

this one time i had a call cus X person couldn't get her computer on, she said not even the monitor could turn on so when i get there as i begin to look at the computer i was like hrm... when i get to the back it comes to my surprise that... you guessed it the power was unplugged 8O also one of my friends called me one day at like 2 am and said his laptop had just turned off and it wouldn't turn back on, he said that he was using it and it had just shut off, so i had remembered the incident at the school and jokingly i asked, well is it plugged in and he replies "what do you know, thanks" and hung up, scared to even wonder if it was true i went back to sleep.

so i guess that those "tech reps" that are really indians with no knowledge of computers are right " but sir is your computer pluged in? "

this brings me to... i couldnt get my desktop on my network so just fork kicks i call up D-Link's service dept, the moron had me re-booting the router for like an hour and transfered me to his manager, who amazingly did the same thing, i mean why dont they just hire monkeys and teach them to say " put a paper clip in the small hole on the back, wait 10 seconds and throw it in the trash "

 

[BuggZ]

Almost any large organization has similar problems, although some are more idiotic than others. I witnessed a similar event while in the Fire Department on a US Military base several years ago. When it came time to replace one of the aging 4x4 military fire trucks used on most bases with a more updated model, the powers that be decided to purchase a fire truck from a company that had been building trucks for civilian fire departments for many years. The military wanted the truck to meet some specific requirements which were added to the contract (4x4, specific color paint, specific lighting and equipment). One essential requirement was the truck must fit inside a C-130 cargo aircraft without major disassembly, so it could be delivered to deployed locations and be usable upon arrival. When the trucks were delivered, it was discovered that an error had been made and the trucks were 2 inches too tall to fit in the C-130. The military contracting people and the engineers from the manufacturer came up with the idea to remove the spacers between the springs and the axels and replace them with ones that were 2 inches shorter. All the stations that had one of the new trucks received a kit with the shorter blocks and new shock absorbers. The old parts were to be disposed of. After the new blocks were installed, the driveshaft started hitting the transmission and the differential started hitting the engine oil pan because of the decrease in suspension height and clearance to the drivetrain components. The next brilliant solution was to put the taller blocks back in to increase the clearance and limit the damage to the drivetrain. Unfortunately, they didn't send new shocks with the taller blocks so once the blocks were installed the shocks were too short for the increased suspension travel and the shocks started breaking. New original length shocks had to be re-fitted to the truck to fix this problem but they were now back to strating point. A short time later, the fire chief from the station where I worked met one of the engineers and the contracting officer at an emergency equipment trade show and asked why no one had thought to "just let some air out of the tires until the truck was two inches shorter!"