Mine was the secretary who stuck her floppy disks to the file cabinet with magnets, and then wondered why they quit working.
One time, I had a floppy disk drive that worked, but only when it was not in the client's computer. A substitute floppy drive worked in the computer, but didn't match the front panel (the customer was picky). The suspect drive worked in every other computer I tried it in. Finally I found the problem: One end of a label had peeled loose on the hard disk below the floppy drive. It rubbed on the drive belt of the disk drive that failed, but missed the belt on the other drives made by different companies.
Microsoft kept installing a standard mouse driver over the graphics tablet driver the client wanted. I had to make a copy of the tablet driver and rename it mouse.com to fix it.
One time, we had a computer that kept rebooting every time an orders clerk left her desk. I suspected trouble in a PlugMold strip behind her chair. It supplied power to the computer. Space was tight, so her chair hit the strip whenever she left the desk. So I got a big rubber mallet to tap the strip with (to see if I should call the physical plant about the wiring). When the secretary asked why I was there (to buzz me in), I was holding that big rubber mallet on my shoulder when I said, "I'm here to fix the order's clerk's computer."
Repair orders that came in to that orders clerk:
- Repair movie projector basketball coach threw (we lost).
- Jugs Jr. machine broken. The swith might be bad. Can you get a new witch?
- Fluorescent light smoking. Sounds like bearings are tight and motor burnt out.
- One basketball, painted as instructed in attachment.
- Replace projector blottom glass.
- Fix computmr kmyboard. "M" kmy makms an "m" instmad of an "m" charactmr.
- Repair computer moniotor.
- Can we get anudder truck? This uns broke.
- Phone off the wall.
- Computer down. Acting up.
