PLS RPT IN ENGLISH THANSK

[j4]

We have a runaway winner for email of the day:

"i have a pdf file which needs converting to a webpage. should i save the pdf in the spreadsheet or wait unti it has been made into a web page first?"

This is from the person responsible for communications in what is probably the second most externally-facing department of the Administrative Services.

Now I admit that sometimes I am wilfully obtuse with content providers, in a probably-doomed attempt to get them to communicate more clearly, but in this case I don't have to pretend: this time I really don't have a clue what they're talking about.

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[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

We have a cartoon here. It features a helpdesk droid saying into the phone:
"I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. Please call back with a question I can understand"

It makes us laugh, anyway.

Somebody came in the other day complaining that they'd bought a PC with wireless networking and couldn't contact their ISP. From a place we know has no wireless network availability. She'd equated "wireless" with something akin to the the BBC World Service.

[mikewd]

Well if you go by the annoying Intel Centrino TV ads, showing people getting wireless connectivity from random remote places - where its unlikely there'd be a nearby WiFi hotspot (e.g. the middle of an ancient amphitheatre), then its not altogether suprising people would think that.