Setup Jokes / Recent Jokes

These are stories from help desks around the country.

At 3: 37 a. m. on a Sunday, I had just looked at the clock to determine my annoyance level, when I received a frantic phone call from a new user of a Macintosh Plus. She had gotten her entire family out of the house and was calling from her neighbor's. She had just received her first system error and interpreted the picture of the bomb on the screen as a warning that the computer was going to blow up.

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Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop."
Customer: "Ok."
Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "Ok. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"
Customer: "Sure, you told me to write' click' and I more...

The railways are always looking for ways to cut labor costs. Years ago there used to be five crew members on a train. Then they went to four, then three, and now many freight train crews are made up of two people, the engineman and the brakeman.
They finally figured out a way to eliminate one more crewman, and many were surprised to find out that they were eliminating the engineman. They replaced him with a baboon who had been sent to school for just one day. Most engineers study for years before they can qualify for the job.
On the first trip the brakeman was a bit leery, but thought he'd give it a try. They outfitted the cab of the engine with two color monitors, one in front of the baboon, and one in front of the brakeman.
While in the yard, the brakeman heard the carman on the radio call for the brakes to be setup for the brake test. The screen in front of the baboon flashed the message "SETUP BRAKES" and the baboon did.
Next, the carman called for the more...

A new employee joins the Company, and is required to have a
password setup for his computer. The boss directed a secretary
to setup the password for him.
The secretary asks the man for the password. The man, attempting
to embrass the secretary in order to show superiority, said,
"Penis."
Blushed, the secretary inputted the password Penis, and re-typed
it again. Then she hit enter.
The whole office heard the secretary bursting out of laughters
as a reaction from the computer's screen:
"Password rejected. Reason: Too short"

Download a piece of Web authoring software: 20 minutes.
Think about what you want to write on your Web page: 6
weeks.
Download the same piece of Web authoring software,
because they have released 3 new versions since the first
time you downloaded it: 20 minutes.
Decide to just steal some images and awards to put on
your site: 1 minute.
Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of them
that you like: 4 days.
Run setup of your Web authoring software. After it fails,
download it again: 25 minutes.
Run setup again, boot the software, click all toolbar
buttons to see what they do: 15 minutes.
View the source of others' pages, steal some, change a
few words here and there: 4 hours.
Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software:
1 minute.
Try to horizontally line up two related images: 6
hours.
Remove one of the images: 10 seconds.
Set the text's font color to the same color as more...

1. Download a piece of Web authoring software - 20 minutes.
2. Think about what you want to write on your Web page - 6 weeks.
3. Download the same piece of Web authoring software, because they have released 3 new versions since the first time you downloaded it - 20 minutes.
4. Decide to just steal some images and awards to put on your site - 1 minute.
5. Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of them that you like - 4 days.
6. Run setup of your Web authoring software. After it fails, download it again - 25 minutes.
7. Run setup again, boot the software, click all toolbar buttons to see what they do - 15 minutes.
8. View the source of others' pages, steal some, change a few words here and there - 4 hours.
9. Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software - 1 minute.
10. Try to horizontally line up two related images - 6 hours.
11. Remove one of the images - 10 seconds.
12. Set the text's font color to the same color as your more...