Friday, January 23, 2009

PEBKAC

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I am not a 'help desk' worker, never have been one.

But I have tried, more than a few times, to help co-workers or my kids drill their way through a computer problem or two. I do not think I made things much worse than they already were...


But when I saw this cartoon on teh intertubes recently:




...I just had to laugh.

I am sure I will be thinking 'PEBKAC' about many things I see online going forward.



...tom...
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My colleagues and I refer to those as Id 10 t errors...

Anonymous said...

That's really funny. I had also heard of Id10t errors, but my husband is in IT and he is going to love this comic.