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... that is actually a picture taken with their phone will be shot  
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..starts dragging his screen to the photo-copier.. 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You bastard  .
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When asked to fax something, I usually email a scan of the document and a second scan that's a high res photo of my broken fax machine from 15 years ago.
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You know quick setup can fax like a printer - then you 'accidentally' set number of copies to 999.
Then email them saying 'I've faxed it to you, but I think something's maybe wrong with my fax coz it took a long time to send, please let me know if it didn't come through or I will just try again in 10 minutes.' (i.e. already covered the 'apology' in advance, plus an excuse to send it another 999 times if they don't reply.)
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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One place I worked my friend Matt faxed a photocopy of the floppy disk holding his weekly status report.
They were not amused.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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 [^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Well at least it's better than "it gave me some error message with some technical sounding stuff which I didn't think would mean anything to anyone."
On that basis, I'd argue for life imprisonment over execution.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Seeing that I'm a computer programmer and thus "work with computers", I am of course the first line support for the wife whenever she tries to use her computer without me to hold her hand.
So no matter where in the house I am at any given moment, she will yell out "Aaaaaah, I got an error!".
I will then have to run to her side and ask: "Well, what was the error?"
Standard answer: "I don't know, I didn't read the error message. I closed it as fast as possible!"
So I know exactly what you mean! I have tried educating her in the fine art of reading the error messages and solving the problems described, but
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: I have tried educating her in the fine art of reading the error messages and solving the problems described, but
This way lies madness.
Or divorce.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Especially when they send it to you pasted into a Word document.
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Bingo!
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I work in finance, embedded in Excel!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I get the same thing: I work with a bunch of hardware engineers. They write everything in Excel. I've received long specifications that were Excel spreadsheets  .
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even more when it's only some spam/phishing email message they've received they they feel they must send as a screen capture
- yeah, like we really like reading the cropped message and tiny text in a blurry 4MB photo sent to us on the road when you could have just forwarded the original message.
Sin tack ear lol
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I hate it when the Snipping Tool is removed/hidden from the workplace office base image.
Most useful tool MS made.
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It's better than nothing.
I recently got an email titled "Error in app !!!" (yes, three exclamation marks).
The body said something like "One of our users has been seeing an error in the app for the last few weeks."
So, please tell me, how bad is the phone taken screen capture?
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The 'captures' that triggered my current hissy-fit aren't actually that bad. They're fairly close to the screen, and I can see what I need to see. I've received captures that contained less than 25% of the screen content and were taken at off-angles rendering the image useless.
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You're saying your users aren't only bad at computers, but also at photography?
Next thing you know they'll fax you a Polaroid camera picture!
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Sander Rossel wrote: Polaroid
That's hysterical, considering I work for [^] .
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I didn't even know that! 
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Gary Wheeler wrote: that is actually a picture taken with their phone
Perhaps a video clip then?
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I received a phone video clip once in a bug report that was actually useful. It showed the sequence of actions in a way that a great steaming pile of trace information couldn't portray.
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You bought that person a beer dinner, right?
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I will the next time he's in town. He's in Japan, I'm in the U.S.
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