Charles the Technician

Happened to come across this bloke's blog and it just reminded me of my days working in an Internet Cafe in London.

The premise of this blog is that people are stupid, especially those who are ignorant about computers. He has an Idiot of the Week and an Idiot of the Month award, which I find highly amusing and something that I definitely can relate to.

I've worked part time in many places before, but the one and only place where there was a barrage of idiots every day was that internet cafe. I just don't understand why, it's as if these people just left their brains at home.

Also, a lot of them would come up to me and start babbling away in Spanish and I look at them and think, What are the odds that this Chinese girl in London speaks or understands Spanish??

There are so many stories to tell, far too many to be written in one post. But one memorable case was this guy who came in. He was in his mid thirties maybe and he wanted to send an email.

"Ok, go ahead."

"Can you send it for me?"

"Mm, do you have an email address? Because I'm not allowed to use the company email or my own email to send out customer emails."

"I don't have an email address. I don't need one. I just want to send an email. I don't need an email address to do that."

"Em, yes you do. You need an email address to send an email. You can't just send it out like that."

"No, no you don't understand. I just want to send an email out, I don't need an email address to send an email. I don't want to go through the hassle of registering for an email address and everything."

And so we went on like this for a few minutes, until I gave up and told him to try sending an email out on his own.

About 10 minutes later, he came back to the counter and said, "OK, I'm not sure how to do this, can you help me with this?"

"Well, you need to sign up for an email address then."

"Yeah, alright, sure."

Always listen to the person who works there, there is a reason why they're there.