Me = Epic FAIL

welly321 · May 9, 2009

So i didn't know where else to post this but anyways here goes. Right now i work as a teller at a bank and its soo boring. All i do is go on this website an dplay my psp all day. So i was looking to get into IT and i applied for this tech support job.
I went for the interview and was told this computer wont boot up, make it boot into windows. So all the normal things were wrong; loose ram, wrong hdd plugged in, power strip off lol, bad video card. The one thing i messed up on was the stupid power supply voltage. I never knew what that fricken red switch on the power supply was and of course that was on the wrong setting. Needless to say im pretty sure i didnt get the job.

reverze · May 9, 2009

haha.

daehxxiD · May 9, 2009

welly321 said:
So i didn't know where else to post this but anyways here goes. Right now i work as a teller at a bank and its soo boring. All i do is go on this website an dplay my psp all day. So i was looking to get into IT and i applied for this tech support job.
I went for the interview and was told this computer wont boot up, make it boot into windows. So all the normal things were wrong; loose ram, wrong hdd plugged in, power strip off lol, bad video card. The one thing i messed up on was the stupid power supply voltage. I never knew what that fricken red switch on the power supply was and of course that was on the wrong setting. Needless to say im pretty sure i didnt get the job.

Ouch. So you were in Amrica and had it set to 220v or over here in Europe and set it to 110v? If latter it must have given you quite the scare when it blew up :eek:

kyle2020 · May 9, 2009

Not sure I understand the switch on the PSU bit?

welly321 · May 9, 2009

LoL thankfully i was in america on 220. I never knew what that was for but he explained it after i said i dont know why it wont turn on

daehxxiD · May 9, 2009

welly321 said:
LoL thankfully i was in america on 220. I never knew what that was for but he explained it after i said i dont know why it wont turn on

But if it was just for that maybe you'll get the job anyways... Who knows, perhaps the other candidates went as far as to break something... :roll:

welly321 · May 9, 2009

Ya hopefully...The video card was bad and it took me a sec to figure out that onboard video is disabled when a card is in the pciexpress slot lol. But, ya he said some of the other people have never opened a computer before.

Kweku · May 9, 2009

Lol, sorry man, did you get the job though?

welly321 · May 9, 2009

Kweku said:
Lol, sorry man, did you get the job though?

this interview was yesterday so i dont know yet

Kweku · May 9, 2009

K, good luck man, just hope that the rest made far worse mistakes, that way you in for sure.

Mussels · May 9, 2009

ahahaahahahaha.

oh man, the red switch always gets the noobs. the sparks are always pretty, too.

largon · May 9, 2009

Looks like you'll be a perfect tech support person.

Mussels · May 9, 2009

i just cant believe someone else uses the same hiring technique that i used to use.

the only downside was how many generic PSU's we went through.

TRIPTEX_CAN · May 9, 2009

That's almost a trick question though. Switching the voltage on the PSU is something that NEVER happens in the real world. That is PC sabotage :roll:

.

Interviewee- "Sorry sir I couldnt make the PC boot"

Interviewer- "Jokes on you ****er we flipped the building's circuit breaker"

Mussels · May 9, 2009

TRIPTEX_MTL said:
That's almost a trick question though. Switching the voltage on the PSU is something that NEVER happens in the real world. That is PC sabotage .

Interviewee- "Sorry sir I couldnt make the PC boot"

Interviewer- "Jokes on you ****er we flipped the building's circuit breaker"

oh shit, ill do that next time. thanks for the idea.

We had a power failure at a lan, and someone yelled at "hey is this red switch a fuse? should i flip it?" someone yelled a reply "dont flip the red switch". A few minutes of silence in the dark, power comes back... three PSU's spew out smoke. You can guess who didnt hear the reply.

Kweku · May 9, 2009

Lol. But it is something that never gets done

1Kurgan1 · May 9, 2009

Mussels said:
oh shit, ill do that next time. thanks for the idea.

We had a power failure at a lan, and someone yelled at "hey is this red switch a fuse? should i flip it?" someone yelled a reply "dont flip the red switch". A few minutes of silence in the dark, power comes back... three PSU's spew out smoke. You can guess who didnt hear the reply.

You had a power failure at a LAN and people were thinking it was their comps? Power failure I just sit and wait for power to come back on usually

hat · May 10, 2009

That red switch thing is kind of a bs question because most power supplies don't even have that anymore, they use some sort of voltage detection system that tells the power supply what voltage outlet it is plugged into.

Steevo · May 10, 2009

Some still ahve it.

I would prefer something a bit harder, like a bootvirus and multiple infections on top of a system clogged and overheating.

a_ump · May 10, 2009

TRIPTEX_MTL said:
That's almost a trick question though. Switching the voltage on the PSU is something that NEVER happens in the real world. That is PC sabotage .

Interviewee- "Sorry sir I couldnt make the PC boot"

Interviewer- "Jokes on you ****er we flipped the building's circuit breaker"

lmfao if i was the interviewee i'd probly be like wtf then crack up :laugh:

and hardware wise i'm sure i could get a job as a tech, but ridding a pc of virus im not a genious at especially if it was a boot virus. i'd probly run and read up on solaris's disk utility lol where's that man been anways?

LittleLizard · May 10, 2009

if you know what is for that switch, u can be here a perfect pc repairman. here most dont know anything, hell, i have a friend that knows more physics that my teacher. to get a job here you dont need anything other than know read and talk.

Mussels · May 10, 2009

1Kurgan1 said:
You had a power failure at a LAN and people were thinking it was their comps? Power failure I just sit and wait for power to come back on usually

a whole new group of people had turned up for their first lan, with their parents dells and HP's.
After the explosions, not many came back next lan.

BradleyKZN · May 10, 2009

kyle2020 said:
Not sure I understand the switch on the PSU bit?

if you set the red switch on the back of the psu to the wrong voltage for your region, it goes boom! :evilgrin:

a_ump · May 10, 2009

hahahhaha, that sucks for them. Who brings a dell to a lan :shadedshu lol. We don't even have lan's here really, used to with just me, my bro, and some buddies. town is too small and not tech savy at all. i had to explain to my pc repair teacher last year the difference between PCI and AGP as he kept bringing me a PCI card when i was asking for an AGP lol

Duxx · May 10, 2009

What perfect timing for this to come up. Just the other day my friend thought he had fried is PSU, he came to me and was like I flipped this thing back and forth and got nothing. Then I told him that if it wasn't the PSU, it is now

. Luckily it was already toast so no harm done hah.

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