“I started having problems with my WiFi three days ago.” “Just restart your router.” “Oh I got rid of that.” “When?” “Three days ago.” *long heavy sigh*
It's so funny ... you'd think "Naw, that story has to be fake, there can't possibly be people THAT stupid" Working in IT has kinda shaken my faith in humanity a bit ... People really are THAT stupid, and I can't understand how or why ...
@@prinegonbevaris1788 I know, it's horrifying. You inevitably thing about the fact that these people are *walking around* out there! They're not locked up or anything. Nobody's taking care of them, they're likely not getting professional help either. It's scary, man.
I kind of find it funny that the caps lock key doesn't let you push the numbers and give you the symbols it just gives you capital letters and that's it it's not a shift lock if there even is such a thing
I know someone who remembers what symbols they have in their passwords by calling them "Capital Numbers". :P As an example, instead of telling me "oh, and put a * in there at the end", it's "after the letters, add a capital 8".
"What happened to it?" "I don't know. I left to go use the bathroom and when I came back it was like that." Yeah, that didn't work with my mother when I was 5, either.
That happened with my phone except the sun was shining on it and I was there next to it. The sun managed to melt the phone case and break the back glass.
Oh tech support...sometimes I miss having my own stories from tech support hell. My personal favorite was the financial analyst who called complaining of issues with some application, asking if it was down. After I told him it had been down a few hours back but was restored now, he got quiet for a moment then gave me his "aha" moment. He said "well you're on Eastern time and I'm in California, so if it was affecting you guys a few hours ago, it would just now be down for me." I laughed at what I thought was a good joke, only for him to go off on me for laughing because he was DEAD SERIOUS. I then had the wonderful experience of explaining to a 40 something year old man who is responsible for other peoples' money that being in a different time zone does NOT mean he is talking to the future. Good times.
"Help! The Internet stopped working!" "Ok where's your modem?" "I got rid of it, I stopped paying for the internet" So, it didn't stop working so much as you stopped paying for it... what's so hard about that? How did she survive to adulthood?
It's staggering how much tech suddenly 'breaks' when there's the possibility of an upgrade - these people, (as well as being selfish & juvenile) must believe that tech support employees are idiots.
I've known two guys that purposely broke their phones to get new ones when its been their partners "turn" to upgrade. Tech-thirsty people like that are just overgrown brats
@@rannvamacdonaldarnskov4794 I've heard of it happening once before, and it's an incredibly juvenile thing to do. Anyway, your name is fantastic - I'm guessing Russian, but Macdonald? Wonderful.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 not the first to guess russian :) but no. Rannvá is faroese and Arnskov is danish. My father is half dane half scot, mother was faroese.
@@rannvamacdonaldarnskov4794 Ah! Sorry - the 'kov' suffix sounded Russian, or to me it did anyway, and I'm not too familiar with Faroese or Danish names, (apart from the 'sen' and 'dottir' suffixes). Anyway, still a very cool name ✌️
@@ianmacfarlane1241 ah, "skov" isnt a suffix, it's just the danish word for forest, but i understand the assumption! :) and thank you, i do like my name
Well... low washer fluid, low oil, low gas... low wifi. So I mean I can see why someone would make that mistake, if they didn't have the slightest idea that wifi is actually a radio signal. And frankly, most people don't. As far as our call centre could figure, most people figured the Internet ran on pixie dust. :/
I mean, the symbol looks kind of like a bottle with fluid in it. Kinda, depending on the OS. Don't know how the little radio logo would look like that.
@@IamCoalfoot I mean, mostly it looks like stacked umbrellas, or a weird slice of pie, lol. But have you ever seen the old icon for "your engine is overheating"? It kind of makes sense that the icon doesn't make sense, if you know what I mean, lol
He was really polite. Just didnt understand how wifi works. I dont think people should laugh at him for that, not everyone is tech savy. We all have to start learning about it somewhere.
I pictured the ladies from that commercial where one has made a Facebook wall on her living room wall, and when she verbally unfriends the other lady, Lady 2 says, That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works!
"I accidentally dropped it" Google translate: I accidentally went to the third floor window. I accidentally held my phone out. I accidentally let go. I accidentally dropped it.
I know just about nothing relating to computers, but man, did that woman who threw her router away not realize the correlation between that event and losing her internet connection?
MacOS is significantly better than Windows for literally anything to do with software development, unless you're working with .NET... Macbooks also have considerably better displays and keyboards than 99% of other laptops. If you work in tech, it makes a lot more sense to use a Macbook than a Windows based laptop.
jarrod MacBooks can’t run scrap mechanic, so they are garbage. Macs are only for people who want to spend $5000 in order to use Facebook. Personally, I have used MacOS, Windows, and ChromeOS. Overall, the best is Windows, and while I cannot speak for Linux, I still am very much a Windows person.
I used to work at this advertising place and when I first started (I was the youngest by like 10 years of all employees) my computer was kinda slow, weirdly slow for an iMac and after a while I found that whoever had used it before me had set up over 40 desktops (I usually have three or four just to be able to switch between programs). I brought this to the attention of the art director and they didnt even know you could have several desktops.
"How do I refill my WiFi ?" *45 seconds of silence* "Yeah I can direct you on how to refill your WiFi, more than glad to help. Turn off your computer. Now unplug it to make sure is disconnected from the wall socket. Please go ahead and walk to your window and put the computer on the edge of it, so the Sun can charge the WiFi. Go ahead and push the computer over the window and let it fall. You are too stupid to own one".
“Give him one of the old fat MacBooks” that are six years old. As Im still using a perfectly running mid 2011 17” MacBook Pro. 9 years and still going strong.
i had my iPhone SE since 2016 (64GB) recently upgraded to iPhone X due to storage space lol i pretty much used up all the space on that phone but it was still going strong!
"Refill my WiFi", omg, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I only have a basic knowledge of computers but even I know that that is not how computers work.
If the employee watched and listened intently, they would've noticed the claw marks the computer left as he slid the computer back to the woman. They also would've noticed the faint "NOOOOOO!!!" of the new fan.
Based on the title, I now honestly hope that in the future, we invent a way to literally refill the WiFi of a WiFi network. I imagine the fluid would be coloured glowing cyan. And the only way to use the liquid would be to pour it all over a router. It then gets absorbed into the router and you can see the WiFi bars fill up.
It will come in small glass tubes the size of those mini soda cans and have a twist off cap that makes a satisfying fizzy noise when opened. You leave the empty tubes outside for the wifi man to take and your kids can send in the caps for stickers and pizza hut coupons.
Their defences are something incredible. My mom calls: "x doesnt work. I says *errror message*" Me: what did you just before you got error Mom: nothing Me. You did something Then mom gives some explanation. Last time it took 45mins and screenshots on WA to explain how to assign a programme for opening certain files. Then she just goes OH! Or the every goddam time my dad calls "my phone doenst work properly" Did you reboot it? No. Reboot and then call me again if doesnt work. No call. And the best of them. When things dont work right away, my dad starts angrily tapping things in tablet even he knows nothing about the system. So once my parents were on holiday abroad, mom used tablet as her camera because she had cheap phone. She calls "your dad started tapping the screen, it said something about resetted to factory settings and i cannot find any pics i have taken". "Well. Its all gone" "Whaaat? But there was two years of photos and and" "Yup. All gone, cannot restore. Thats why i have told you zillion times to make backups or get them printed. Have a nice rest of the holiday"
I often use a program called Don't Sleep to force my PC not to update. This is because I use my PC to host my Discord bot, and if the machine restarts in the middle of the day when I'm not there, there goes an entire day of possible traffic. -_-
Open Core It sadly isn’t. At least none of the VPS’ that I’ve seen. The computer I ran it on at the time was one of those ultra-compact desktop toasters that I had upgraded by installing 16 GB of RAM (as opposed to the stock 4) and an SSD to replace the slow HDD. Now I just run it on the same PC that I game on, because it’s simpler and I don’t really need a dedicated server until my bot gets bigger. Thanks for the suggestion though!
That last story was kinda sweet. Someone trying to navigate a world he has no idea about without getting angry. I hope the ISP has as much patience with him as OP.
Got to share this with you all. Back in the days of the really big floppy disks we had a new school leaver in the tech department. One day the manager saw her with one of the disks and asked her why it was folded in half? Her reply was that she had to send a daily backup to head office but they had run out of the envelopes she normally used so she was going to put it in a smaller ordinary letter envelope and post it. ..............
Just wanted to say that my girlfriend and I LOVE your videos. I've been watching/listening to reddit stories on RUclips for almost a year now, but all of them are narrated by that British "robot" voice, which my girlfriend HATED! She recently discovered your channel and got me hooked! We've spent hours on end (sometimes very high) listening to your videos, and love every second! Thank you, and keep up the great work!
This is why tech support must be respected!!! I’m hopeless with fixing anything wrong with my work desktop and IT is a godsend. I think our IT guys are the most liked employees at my work lmao.
Seems like I was the only one who traded the thinner MacBooks for the older white ones with better keys and chargers. It has an HDMI, 2X USB and stronger hinges.
oh boy, the reboot one, i've told my dad like 3 times now he has to actually shut off the laptop he has when he's done with it, and exactly why in layman's terms (basically telling him the laptop needs "sleep" and only gets it when shut down.) he's gone through 3 laptops so far "because they're slow". i've resorted to not helping him anymore and just saying okay boomer whenever he comes to complain. if you refuse to learn from your mistakes, i refuse to help.
@@swetasmani That's exactly what I did and do. I respect my mother deeply and I always will. I was polite and patient when I explained that if she wanted a page changed she would have to speak with the people that actually created the page. If you don't like the way that I demonstrate the way that nobody is immune to unwilling ignorance then you can take your comments elsewhere.
@@swetasmani - One has nothing to do with the other... I can pull someone out of a burning building during an anthrax outbreak, and it still wouldn't be disrespectful for them to have a laugh at me constantly forgetting what I'm doing, while I'm doing it. They're two completely separate things. No need to be so negative.
Peter Strick, I don’t know man. I had an iPhone SE until a few months ago. I had all the money I needed to go upgrade but didn’t want to. I upgraded to a XR but some people are crazy
because apple products are designed to slow down after like a year to "save battery life" and apple products are generally inferior to a mid level pc build
Because Apple users are elitists and think that having $1,000+ phone makes them better than everyone else even tho iPhones are built to die so you'll have to replace it with the new $1,000+ phone they release the very next year....
I was so dumb. I couldn’t connect to the internet. The guy showed me how to find the password for it since it was connected with a cord. I felt so dumb because the password wasn’t capitalized.
@@krystofktd Not turning off your laptop *ever* in favour of sleep mode damages it. The damage is slow, but cumulative, and can shorten the lifespan of the machine. Computers are *designed* to shut off regularly, and certain vital proccesses are queued to happen on shutdown and only on shutdown. The SSD (solid state drive) or HDD (hard disk drive) would be hardest hit by this.
i worked on tech support in a call center for an internet company for a few months, when we got calls like that last one it was the best, we usually just laughed it off and explained what needed to be done, people like that, specially older folks were super sweet in general
I work for an MSP, and do ordering and procurement for our clients. We had a client that had older machines running Windows 7. They were somewhere in the 8-10 year old range. Dual core old AMD processors, 4GB of RAM, and very old spinning hard disk drives. They often complained about how slow they were, and we did our best to help -- CCleaner to make sure there wasn't any junk filling up disk space, defragmenting, making sure there weren't extra applications, etc. There wasn't much that could be done, however, simply due to the age of the machines. They really just needed to be replaced, or at the VERY least, they needed more RAM and an SSD. Well, with the retirement of Windows 7 around the corner [this was about 3 months ago], they were convinced that they needed to go to Windows 10 to keep their company legally compliant with certain laws... But they didn't want to spend money on new machines. Fast forward to about a month later. I'm sent to pick up one of the machines, which seems to be near death, begging for release. I tell my boss, who's been in IT for nearly 30 years, that I don't think upgrading it is a good idea, and with a defeated sigh, he agrees, but we have to do what the client wants. So I start a backup; that took 5 hours for the 500GB HDD to spit out the 100GB of data that was actually on it. I ran the upgrade -- it took about 10 hours to run. Took about 10 minutes for each reboot. RAM and CPU and disk usage were all at 100%. After about a week, it was finally upgraded and updated and all that, but still with that sad old dual core processor and 4GB and an old HDD. I set it back up and was on my way. We're still getting complaints about the computers being slow, and how they're worse than ever. They want it to go faster. They still don't want to even upgrade to an SSD and 8GB of RAM. They still don't want to replace it. I WARNED THEM.
For the laptop replacement story: I work in the IT industry and our company's laptops are all Lenovo ThinkPads. My own ThinkPad is a T440 from around 2013 or 2014. Out internal IT department has offered to upgrade multiple times and I tend to go full goblin mode, protective of this baby. She's been a loyal, stalwart laptop for nearly a decade and still going strong as the day she shipped!
Just got this vid today. I CAN RELATE! In prehistoric times a user called me and told me the floppy disk we mailed to them didn't work. Yep it was a LONG time ago and a 5-1/2" floppy. She had never done this task before and was just subbing for someone. After some back and forth, I asked if the disk she put in the disk drive looked like a 45 RPM record. She said "Yes" and I managed to hit the mute button before I lost it. I laughed for at least 5 minutes. Then I told her we would send her a new disk via over-night delivery and she should call me and I would walk her through the process. Worked fine and she was happy.
LOL! How much fun can you have in a day?! I only started going on the internet with my very own lap top about 6 years ago. I have learned soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much about computers since then!!! Only because I had no idea what to do!! I am pretty good now, but my good lap top got dropped and smash all the hell and back, and I couldn't afford to purchase a new one, so now I have an Acer Chrombook. We have a love hate relationship, but it works for the most part. Love to hear the stories! You are the one of the best narrators out there so keep 'em coming!! I only started going on the internet 6 years ago because I retired from my job! Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks!!
As a Tech support technician, i felt this in my soul.... Right now i'm dealing with a user who is blaming her inconsistent connection on the elevator.... furreal.
The story of the man wanting to 'refill his WIFI' ... that was exactly my level of knowledge when I got my first PC, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Years later now, I understand the ways of the WIFI a lot better.
I drink at least two cups of wifi every morning so I never have to worry about running low. It's just sad that some people are so lazy they can't even bother to find a reliable wifi fountain.
Hello, I'd like to order 1 gallon of WiFi please.
Can you order some for me as well?
hello, i'd like to order 1 wholesome response please.
Hey rSlash!! Love your videos. :)
2 wholesome responses 1 gallon of free wifi
I would love you to please give me all your belongings because I am a very big fan of yours meaning I am entitled to all of your belongings.
“I started having problems with my WiFi three days ago.”
“Just restart your router.”
“Oh I got rid of that.”
“When?”
“Three days ago.”
*long heavy sigh*
This made me lauuggghhh😂😂😂😂😂😂😝😝
It's so funny ... you'd think "Naw, that story has to be fake, there can't possibly be people THAT stupid"
Working in IT has kinda shaken my faith in humanity a bit ... People really are THAT stupid, and I can't understand how or why ...
The sad thing is, it is not the exception but the norm that customers calling tech support are not able to make those simple temporal deductions.
@@prinegonbevaris1788 I know, it's horrifying. You inevitably thing about the fact that these people are *walking around* out there! They're not locked up or anything. Nobody's taking care of them, they're likely not getting professional help either. It's scary, man.
OMG THIS HAPPENS TO ME SOO MUCH, I GET RID OF MY ROUTER AND THE WIFI STOPS!!!
"I can't log in"
"did you capitalize your ID?"
"Do I need to capitalize the numbers too?"
I had to go on mute
LMAO
😂
Happened to me once too, "are the numbers upper case or lower case?"
I kind of find it funny that the caps lock key doesn't let you push the numbers and give you the symbols it just gives you capital letters and that's it it's not a shift lock if there even is such a thing
I know someone who remembers what symbols they have in their passwords by calling them "Capital Numbers". :P
As an example, instead of telling me "oh, and put a * in there at the end", it's "after the letters, add a capital 8".
"Yes we sell Wifi refills. They're over on aisle 6, above the headlight fluid."
Don't forget to get some blinker fluid for the car too.
Don't forget the elbow grease.
Also the wiper juice
Make sure your muffler bearings are good as well, might also replace the piston return springs while youre at it
@@ProwlXV chris fix
"What happened to it?"
"I don't know. I left to go use the bathroom and when I came back it was like that."
Yeah, that didn't work with my mother when I was 5, either.
Joe Mama LOL!
That happened with my phone except the sun was shining on it and I was there next to it. The sun managed to melt the phone case and break the back glass.
"My TV stopped working."
"And how got the shoe in the screen?"
"I don't think, its related to the issue."
Oh tech support...sometimes I miss having my own stories from tech support hell. My personal favorite was the financial analyst who called complaining of issues with some application, asking if it was down. After I told him it had been down a few hours back but was restored now, he got quiet for a moment then gave me his "aha" moment. He said "well you're on Eastern time and I'm in California, so if it was affecting you guys a few hours ago, it would just now be down for me." I laughed at what I thought was a good joke, only for him to go off on me for laughing because he was DEAD SERIOUS. I then had the wonderful experience of explaining to a 40 something year old man who is responsible for other peoples' money that being in a different time zone does NOT mean he is talking to the future. Good times.
Good lord, he reached levels of stupidity that shouldn't even be possible :O
That's it. Mr Greystone summon the cylons
@@TheNotoriousDUDE your comment suddenly has me think about the Kung Fu Panda movie where Shifu is like " there is now a level zero"
I mean, my dad, who is an engineer, texted me at 4 am when I was overseas just to ask "How are you doing?" There was a 14 hour time difference.
i can't help but read this in rslash's voice
"Help! The Internet stopped working!"
"Ok where's your modem?"
"I got rid of it, I stopped paying for the internet"
So, it didn't stop working so much as you stopped paying for it... what's so hard about that? How did she survive to adulthood?
We have to tell people not to hold a lit firework in their hand. Obviously, that's not foolproof.
Just boomer things
@@firecrackerjack68
The baby boomer generation is not the only generation with dumb people.
@@Richard_Nickerson tru dat
@@firecrackerjack68 Ha! BOOMer
It's staggering how much tech suddenly 'breaks' when there's the possibility of an upgrade - these people, (as well as being selfish & juvenile) must believe that tech support employees are idiots.
I've known two guys that purposely broke their phones to get new ones when its been their partners "turn" to upgrade. Tech-thirsty people like that are just overgrown brats
@@rannvamacdonaldarnskov4794 I've heard of it happening once before, and it's an incredibly juvenile thing to do.
Anyway, your name is fantastic - I'm guessing Russian, but Macdonald?
Wonderful.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 not the first to guess russian :) but no. Rannvá is faroese and Arnskov is danish. My father is half dane half scot, mother was faroese.
@@rannvamacdonaldarnskov4794 Ah! Sorry - the 'kov' suffix sounded Russian, or to me it did anyway, and I'm not too familiar with Faroese or Danish names, (apart from the 'sen' and 'dottir' suffixes).
Anyway, still a very cool name ✌️
@@ianmacfarlane1241 ah, "skov" isnt a suffix, it's just the danish word for forest, but i understand the assumption! :) and thank you, i do like my name
"I feel I should have a new [Macbook] as well!"
"Request denied. Your feelings don't concern me."
Giving away my Macbook- got a Librem15. A serious upgrade.
@@markedwards3647 Librems seem way better than Macs!
Thanks for mentioning them!
@@markedwards3647
He should just get a Zuse Z25. (Its from 1962.)
I laughed so hard when you called a Router a " Blinky Book." 🤣🤣🤣🤣❤👍
Laurie Plumley what do you call a screen book
@@channelofrandom7731 Are you talking about an eBook/Tablet? I call mine Nooky. ^_^
I feel like I have to call a router a blinky book now cuz that's fcking funny
What??? She didn't even read it once.
For a sec, i thought the thumbnail was "Refill My Wife"
XD
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
i wish it was
Refill with what? lol
I was searching for this comment lmao
Nothing like a nice heaping glass of wifi to get the day started
How the heck does “low connectivity” get interpreted as “your container of WiFi needs to be refilled”? Some people, man. Some people.
Because people are stupid.
Well... low washer fluid, low oil, low gas... low wifi. So I mean I can see why someone would make that mistake, if they didn't have the slightest idea that wifi is actually a radio signal. And frankly, most people don't. As far as our call centre could figure, most people figured the Internet ran on pixie dust. :/
I mean, the symbol looks kind of like a bottle with fluid in it. Kinda, depending on the OS. Don't know how the little radio logo would look like that.
@@IamCoalfoot I mean, mostly it looks like stacked umbrellas, or a weird slice of pie, lol. But have you ever seen the old icon for "your engine is overheating"? It kind of makes sense that the icon doesn't make sense, if you know what I mean, lol
b o o m e r
This physically hurts me since I've worked as an IT technician who goes house to house to solve computer issues...
At least the guy with the WiFi wasn't rude or anything, just assumed WiFi was like a car
He was really polite. Just didnt understand how wifi works. I dont think people should laugh at him for that, not everyone is tech savy. We all have to start learning about it somewhere.
I pictured the ladies from that commercial where one has made a Facebook wall on her living room wall, and when she verbally unfriends the other lady, Lady 2 says, That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works!
Me: *laughs while watching this on a 10 year old pc*
Laughs in black and white tv
Old PC squat
Laughs in Commodore VIC 20
Laughing in a 60s Military Terminal
Mine's 8 years old but same
What if the service provider is all out of wifi fluid though
Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access boy am i early today
Guess he had to get a gallon of network data instead of wifi
Desiter Dane yeah
*sips cup*
Mmm, yes. Internet juice.
sorry, i drank it all. tasted like data.
"I accidentally dropped it"
Google translate: I accidentally went to the third floor window. I accidentally held my phone out. I accidentally let go. I accidentally dropped it.
Yeah...
Whoops, just hate it when that happens...
The only time my phone falls is when I'm falling along with it.
I would have responded with something exceptionally snarky about karma and ‘accidental damage.’
A series of unfortunate events?
OP: Refill your Wifi?
K: Yes, and can you also refill my cable as well? Not good shows are on so I suspect it may be running low as well.
It's the best when people are asking for Wifi cables
OP: What kind of shows are on that are no good?
K: CW superhero shows.
I know just about nothing relating to computers, but man, did that woman who threw her router away not realize the correlation between that event and losing her internet connection?
Hi i didn't even read your comment but it didn't have any replies so I replied to it for you. :)
@@xx_elijah7990 I love how your account still has the about page and channel banner.
I think she suffered from stupid.
My favorite story is the lady wanting Google Bing or as I now call it "The Bing"
Oh I laughed so much at that one. If I remember correctly "I have a certificate of proficiency in computering"
That was one hell of a story!
Eric Sanchez same lol
Imagine someone trying to get a Macbook instead of a PC.
Kana Ker this post was made by pc gang
And the boomer penguin just smiled at both of them.......................
MacOS is significantly better than Windows for literally anything to do with software development, unless you're working with .NET... Macbooks also have considerably better displays and keyboards than 99% of other laptops. If you work in tech, it makes a lot more sense to use a Macbook than a Windows based laptop.
jarrod Yeah no, Windows is way more direct and clear on what to do and how to do it.
jarrod MacBooks can’t run scrap mechanic, so they are garbage. Macs are only for people who want to spend $5000 in order to use Facebook. Personally, I have used MacOS, Windows, and ChromeOS. Overall, the best is Windows, and while I cannot speak for Linux, I still am very much a Windows person.
I used to work at this advertising place and when I first started (I was the youngest by like 10 years of all employees) my computer was kinda slow, weirdly slow for an iMac and after a while I found that whoever had used it before me had set up over 40 desktops (I usually have three or four just to be able to switch between programs). I brought this to the attention of the art director and they didnt even know you could have several desktops.
Can we get an F for that poor CPU fan in the second story 🥺😭
F
poor lil guy
F
F for the fan
F 😥
_F_
I love listening to you during my morning drive to class. Leaves me laughing everytime. Keep it up.
ZoroTheLucario k
K
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REQUEST DENIED
Nobody:
These people when they can’t get new computer: “We’re not cavemen sponge bob, WE HAVE TECHNOLOGY”
LMAO
OmG YES.
*bangs computer on dollar*
*WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM*
It didn't work
Nothing beats going to your neighbour's house to borrow a cup of Wi-Fi.
Got to love the taste of wifi 😂
Yes I would like a cup of Wi-Fi
"How do I refill my WiFi ?"
*45 seconds of silence*
"Yeah I can direct you on how to refill your WiFi, more than glad to help.
Turn off your computer.
Now unplug it to make sure is disconnected from the wall socket.
Please go ahead and walk to your window and put the computer on the edge of it, so the Sun can charge the WiFi.
Go ahead and push the computer over the window and let it fall. You are too stupid to own one".
They'd probably just drop the monitor out the window instead of the computer.
“Give him one of the old fat MacBooks” that are six years old.
As Im still using a perfectly running mid 2011 17” MacBook Pro. 9 years and still going strong.
I have a PowerBook G4 that still works, even though it has no monitor, keys and the mouse pad doesn't work. Had it for about 10+ years.
i had my iPhone SE since 2016 (64GB) recently upgraded to iPhone X due to storage space lol i pretty much used up all the space on that phone but it was still going strong!
@@pinkie5963CP I have 3 friends that still have SE's lol I have an Android
Still using my 2011 MBP too. Got a 1TB SSD and a 2TB HDD, not looking forward to downsizing with a new one.
You have no clue how users are...they think that computers just wear out or something when they get older, I deal with this crap every day.
"My WiFi is low, refill it!"
Yes sir, please get closer to the router, the closer you are to it the fuller your wifi is gonna be.
Reminds me of the “my computer needs more megabytes” people I constantly had to deal with in the ‘90’s.
Now it's "I need a new computer with more terabytes"
OOF MAN
Contextually a little different; as the market was vastly different back then, but I get what you’re saying.
‘80s “I need more kilobytes”
‘90s “I need more megabytes”
‘00s “I need more gigabytes”
‘10s “I need more terabytes”
‘20s “I need more WiFi”
i still can’t stop trying to keep file size down, i cringe at anything over 100mb!
“My Internet is low. Need to head out californi way to look for some more internet.”
Nobody:
People in the comments: haha refill my wiFe
You: makes fun of comments by commenting
Not having a go i just thought it was ironic
@@notevenhuman8141 😂😂
Note to self: give employees the cheapest flip phone possible.
Already use one
Note to self just issue dual SIM phone
Me: reads the title:
My -WiFi- Wife is low.... REFILL IT!
Same
Wife fluid
"Refill my WiFi", omg, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I only have a basic knowledge of computers but even I know that that is not how computers work.
As a tech guy, this hurts. Also, I have an abbreviation for those type of people. PEBAB (Problem Exists Between User And Brain): Cause: B = null
Ohhhhh boyyyyyyyyyyyyyy when I read the title I thought it said “Refill my Wife” and I never realized until it got the that point the video 😂😂😂
Me too😂😂
Asks for a fresh cup of wifi. Gets given a downloaded pic of “wifi” in a cup
"Broken laptops will be replaced with the same or older model" is a simple and effective policy to prevent that kind of abuse of the system.
If the employee watched and listened intently, they would've noticed the claw marks the computer left as he slid the computer back to the woman. They also would've noticed the faint "NOOOOOO!!!" of the new fan.
Based on the title, I now honestly hope that in the future, we invent a way to literally refill the WiFi of a WiFi network. I imagine the fluid would be coloured glowing cyan. And the only way to use the liquid would be to pour it all over a router. It then gets absorbed into the router and you can see the WiFi bars fill up.
It will come in small glass tubes the size of those mini soda cans and have a twist off cap that makes a satisfying fizzy noise when opened. You leave the empty tubes outside for the wifi man to take and your kids can send in the caps for stickers and pizza hut coupons.
Joseph Arellano no, pizza guys.
That Computer: kill me
The lady: Later
Nobody:
Comments section: Refill my wife!
ugh, old people and technology gives me a headache every time I see something on it
ReplayXPreplay my mother is like this, she’ll be 70 this year. It’s horrible, I’m not the greatest with tech myself so I have my son help her out.
Their defences are something incredible.
My mom calls: "x doesnt work. I says *errror message*"
Me: what did you just before you got error
Mom: nothing
Me. You did something
Then mom gives some explanation.
Last time it took 45mins and screenshots on WA to explain how to assign a programme for opening certain files.
Then she just goes OH!
Or the every goddam time my dad calls "my phone doenst work properly"
Did you reboot it?
No.
Reboot and then call me again if doesnt work.
No call.
And the best of them. When things dont work right away, my dad starts angrily tapping things in tablet even he knows nothing about the system. So once my parents were on holiday abroad, mom used tablet as her camera because she had cheap phone.
She calls "your dad started tapping the screen, it said something about resetted to factory settings and i cannot find any pics i have taken".
"Well. Its all gone"
"Whaaat? But there was two years of photos and and"
"Yup. All gone, cannot restore. Thats why i have told you zillion times to make backups or get them printed. Have a nice rest of the holiday"
@@duckeh1952 omg that's so horrible. That gives me a headache hearing it. Sorry that happens to you
Being a tech support representative, I relate to this.
"I could almost hear the machine thanking me"...oh god, this poor thing must be saved and go into a shelter to get a new loving mom
I read the thumbnail as “refill my wife!!”
That would’ve been a completely different story
Refill her with what? lol
@@13bgunbunny42 bruh
@@13bgunbunny42 -fill me up ;)-
*im gay*
13B Gun Bunny milk
Same
Wait so you're telling me a windows 10 computer was on for 2 years and was never forced to update??????
IMPOSSIBLE
I often use a program called Don't Sleep to force my PC not to update. This is because I use my PC to host my Discord bot, and if the machine restarts in the middle of the day when I'm not there, there goes an entire day of possible traffic. -_-
@@turkeyboy5543 Oof why not use a vps? I think it might be cheaper than having ur windows desktop on all the time
Open Core It sadly isn’t. At least none of the VPS’ that I’ve seen. The computer I ran it on at the time was one of those ultra-compact desktop toasters that I had upgraded by installing 16 GB of RAM (as opposed to the stock 4) and an SSD to replace the slow HDD. Now I just run it on the same PC that I game on, because it’s simpler and I don’t really need a dedicated server until my bot gets bigger. Thanks for the suggestion though!
@@turkeyboy5543 Np, happy to help
Must be using XP
On the second story, I read “oh jeez” as “oh cheese”. I’m currently eating something that has cheese.
That last story was kinda sweet. Someone trying to navigate a world he has no idea about without getting angry. I hope the ISP has as much patience with him as OP.
i thought the thumbnail said “REFILL MY WIFE” and i was really confused 💀💀
I mean we can but our lord and savior would not like that
Hello Misfortune
Refill her with what? lol
@@13bgunbunny42 good quality of being a wife
@@13bgunbunny42 Some *S* if you know what I mean
Got to share this with you all. Back in the days of the really big floppy disks we had a new school leaver in the tech department. One day the manager saw her with one of the disks and asked her why it was folded in half? Her reply was that she had to send a daily backup to head office but they had run out of the envelopes she normally used so she was going to put it in a smaller ordinary letter envelope and post it. ..............
Both me and my friend started watching this when we came home, togethet lol
It's better when you read right from reddit. This guys voice gets hella annoying after a few stories.
GonnaLoveYa Does Art 🖼
@@tonysolar284 well then, why do you watch his videos?
@@tonysolar284 Annoying? Lmao I never even heard anyone say that also just go to reddit what are u doing here?
@@tonysolar284 why are you on his videos then?
Just wanted to say that my girlfriend and I LOVE your videos. I've been watching/listening to reddit stories on RUclips for almost a year now, but all of them are narrated by that British "robot" voice, which my girlfriend HATED! She recently discovered your channel and got me hooked! We've spent hours on end (sometimes very high) listening to your videos, and love every second! Thank you, and keep up the great work!
The computer is like “ let me die”
KILL MEEEEEE, PLEASE
This is why tech support must be respected!!! I’m hopeless with fixing anything wrong with my work desktop and IT is a godsend. I think our IT guys are the most liked employees at my work lmao.
Seems like I was the only one who traded the thinner MacBooks for the older white ones with better keys and chargers.
It has an HDMI, 2X USB and stronger hinges.
That user probably told the fan "Dying is Gay"
Ironically we call renewing a router subscription in Saudi as "refill" lol
oh boy, the reboot one, i've told my dad like 3 times now he has to actually shut off the laptop he has when he's done with it, and exactly why in layman's terms (basically telling him the laptop needs "sleep" and only gets it when shut down.) he's gone through 3 laptops so far "because they're slow".
i've resorted to not helping him anymore and just saying okay boomer whenever he comes to complain.
if you refuse to learn from your mistakes, i refuse to help.
"This message just popped up on my screen saying that I've won a free Internet. Will it be delivered to my address, or where can I pick it up?"
The person who didnt reboot is my hero. Cant get away with that nowadays with microsoft rebooting and/or "upgrading" every chance it gets.
I legit thought it read refill my wife on the thumbnail.
Refill her with what? lol
At first look I did too & then I looked again cause my brain said “well that don’t seem right”. 🤣
Same lol
Computer Fan: Let... Me..die
Woman: So um....What’s wrong with it?
I tried just closing the lid.
My mother once asked me to change a web page for her [rolls eyes]
My mother asks me what a browser is every time I try to help her with the computer. I think her hard drive is full
Do have a little respect for her and patiently teach her. She’s done a lot more than that for you I’m sure. Show your gratitude and don’t mock her
@@swetasmani
That's exactly what I did and do. I respect my mother deeply and I always will. I was polite and patient when I explained that if she wanted a page changed she would have to speak with the people that actually created the page.
If you don't like the way that I demonstrate the way that nobody is immune to unwilling ignorance then you can take your comments elsewhere.
@@swetasmani - One has nothing to do with the other... I can pull someone out of a burning building during an anthrax outbreak, and it still wouldn't be disrespectful for them to have a laugh at me constantly forgetting what I'm doing, while I'm doing it. They're two completely separate things. No need to be so negative.
This entire subreddit is summed by the catchphrase of Roy from I.T. Crowd
Roy: I.T. Have you tried turning it off and on again
Commenting from a 2009 MacBook:
It still works as a work computer.
How? Didn’t Apple make your computer slow and unusable 10 years ago?
I’m a teen and this stupidity baffles me (it’s ridiculously funny)
7:35 why do only apple people demand for the newest and latest?
Peter Strick, I don’t know man. I had an iPhone SE until a few months ago. I had all the money I needed to go upgrade but didn’t want to. I upgraded to a XR but some people are crazy
I heard it's a status symbol in some countries because Apple products are so expensive.
because apple products are designed to slow down after like a year to "save battery life" and apple products are generally inferior to a mid level pc build
Because Apple users are the only ones who think that the newest is the best, and they must have the best!
Because Apple users are elitists and think that having $1,000+ phone makes them better than everyone else even tho iPhones are built to die so you'll have to replace it with the new $1,000+ phone they release the very next year....
I love when Tales From Tech Support is seasoned with Choosing Beggars...😍😍😍😍😍
“Please sir may I have some more”
You can refill your wifi with a bit bucket. Just go to your local computer store and ask the Tech for a 1 gallon bit bucket.🤣🤣🤣
I was so dumb. I couldn’t connect to the internet. The guy showed me how to find the password for it since it was connected with a cord. I felt so dumb because the password wasn’t capitalized.
I love r/Talesfromtechsupport... it makes me feel smarter.
4:30
You know she never turned off that PC. I'm shocked the processor didn't melt down on her.
Most people dont turn off their laptop. Do you now what sleep mode is?
@@krystofktd HDD/SSD dying in 3... 2... 1...
@@giovannilemos8109 ?
@@krystofktd Not turning off your laptop *ever* in favour of sleep mode damages it. The damage is slow, but cumulative, and can shorten the lifespan of the machine. Computers are *designed* to shut off regularly, and certain vital proccesses are queued to happen on shutdown and only on shutdown. The SSD (solid state drive) or HDD (hard disk drive) would be hardest hit by this.
Obviously, this Low WiFi person saw the connection strength meter, and thought it was like a fuel gauge. It's not. Poor little fool.
eSlash: Come on lady this is internet 101, everyone knows you can't get internet without those *blinky books*
Me a smartass: what about hotspot tho
The hotspot is also a blinky book.
@@NeuronalAxon that's a blinky slab
Then your phone/other device is the blinky book.
Honestly, that last person sounded really respectful. Although he was misinformed, he did follow instructions without getting mad.
macbook boy sounds like he wants to game on his work computer haha
Yet he uses a MacBook...
i worked on tech support in a call center for an internet company for a few months, when we got calls like that last one it was the best, we usually just laughed it off and explained what needed to be done, people like that, specially older folks were super sweet in general
Ngl I read both the thumbnail and the title as “Refill my Wife”
I totally have the millions of tabs open. I don't overly care about it being slow
I need to replace my phone, I just opened up a helpdesk ticket
*really, I didn't know*
4:36
"The string wants to collapse, but constant stress wont allow that."
When you come from the discord server :D
I can't even imagine how much suffering that pc has to go through for 2 years. The fan really lived it's entire life cycle in just 2 years.
wow end part pretty interesting
but its been a minuite🧐
I work for an MSP, and do ordering and procurement for our clients. We had a client that had older machines running Windows 7. They were somewhere in the 8-10 year old range. Dual core old AMD processors, 4GB of RAM, and very old spinning hard disk drives. They often complained about how slow they were, and we did our best to help -- CCleaner to make sure there wasn't any junk filling up disk space, defragmenting, making sure there weren't extra applications, etc. There wasn't much that could be done, however, simply due to the age of the machines. They really just needed to be replaced, or at the VERY least, they needed more RAM and an SSD. Well, with the retirement of Windows 7 around the corner [this was about 3 months ago], they were convinced that they needed to go to Windows 10 to keep their company legally compliant with certain laws... But they didn't want to spend money on new machines.
Fast forward to about a month later. I'm sent to pick up one of the machines, which seems to be near death, begging for release. I tell my boss, who's been in IT for nearly 30 years, that I don't think upgrading it is a good idea, and with a defeated sigh, he agrees, but we have to do what the client wants. So I start a backup; that took 5 hours for the 500GB HDD to spit out the 100GB of data that was actually on it. I ran the upgrade -- it took about 10 hours to run. Took about 10 minutes for each reboot. RAM and CPU and disk usage were all at 100%. After about a week, it was finally upgraded and updated and all that, but still with that sad old dual core processor and 4GB and an old HDD. I set it back up and was on my way.
We're still getting complaints about the computers being slow, and how they're worse than ever. They want it to go faster. They still don't want to even upgrade to an SSD and 8GB of RAM. They still don't want to replace it.
I WARNED THEM.
If someone asked for free iPhone I would say “buy it yourself” the end
Guy where wifi juice is a thing watches this video:
Also guy:
VISIBLE CONFUSION
I read the title as
“Refill my wife!”
Cyvader 101 you ain't the only one
U ain't alone on that buster.
The thumbnail of Fred Schneider screaming "I told you to bring your juke! box! money!" is the best part.
For the laptop replacement story:
I work in the IT industry and our company's laptops are all Lenovo ThinkPads. My own ThinkPad is a T440 from around 2013 or 2014.
Out internal IT department has offered to upgrade multiple times and I tend to go full goblin mode, protective of this baby. She's been a loyal, stalwart laptop for nearly a decade and still going strong as the day she shipped!
Just got this vid today. I CAN RELATE! In prehistoric times a user called me and told me the floppy disk we mailed to them didn't work. Yep it was a LONG time ago and a 5-1/2" floppy. She had never done this task before and was just subbing for someone. After some back and forth, I asked if the disk she put in the disk drive looked like a 45 RPM record. She said "Yes" and I managed to hit the mute button before I lost it. I laughed for at least 5 minutes. Then I told her we would send her a new disk via over-night delivery and she should call me and I would walk her through the process. Worked fine and she was happy.
LOL! How much fun can you have in a day?! I only started going on the internet with my very own lap top about 6 years ago. I have learned soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much about computers since then!!! Only because I had no idea what to do!! I am pretty good now, but my good lap top got dropped and smash all the hell and back, and I couldn't afford to purchase a new one, so now I have an Acer Chrombook. We have a love hate relationship, but it works for the most part. Love to hear the stories! You are the one of the best narrators out there so keep 'em coming!! I only started going on the internet 6 years ago because I retired from my job! Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks!!
THE LAST ONE WITH WIFI MADE ME FLIP WITH LAUGHTER
As a Tech support technician, i felt this in my soul.... Right now i'm dealing with a user who is blaming her inconsistent connection on the elevator.... furreal.
New pick-up line!
"Hi, that's a nice phone you have there. Can I borrow a cup of WiFi?"
😄
👍👍👍
The story of the man wanting to 'refill his WIFI' ... that was exactly my level of knowledge when I got my first PC, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Years later now, I understand the ways of the WIFI a lot better.
I drink at least two cups of wifi every morning so I never have to worry about running low. It's just sad that some people are so lazy they can't even bother to find a reliable wifi fountain.