#when technology fails

[sweetcritique]

I love technology, but I don't love it when it doesn't work. Because then it's my problem to fix. And I think I get so frustrated and annoyed quickly because I'm the only one that fixes it.

Every techy thing in the house: tv, internet, phones, gaming consoles, VR, wifi etcetc It's me. The husbandpartner is so inept at it, doesn't even use a smart phone omg, so I need to handle it all

So when the youngest comes home and turns on the tv and none of the streaming works because the TV is offline. I have to deal with it.

Of course it wasn't anything simple because it can find my network but isn't connecting to the internet. Today is the two week mark of installation so it should still be covered under Geek Squad but I had planned on doing something else with my time instead of this

And I think they picked up the phone, because the hold music stopped and it was ringing and now I'm on hold again. This is so sus (as the kids say :P)

[pink-peony-princess]

When you're 30 mins from posting a new teaser and your computer decides to delete two thirds of what you've written! I could actually cry right now, I've managed to get some of it back, but I'm going to have to try and go off memory to restore the rest 😭 Needless to stay it's going to be longer than tonight..,. I'm so sorry guys! I really will try to have the teaser up in the next day or two. I really just want to cry!🥺

[jawnbaeyega]

I was halfway through a really long and detailed post the whole fanon v. canon, marginalized group v. marginalized group in the quest for representation situation and my browser collapsed and IT’S ALL GONE. I am in MOURNING.

[retailgirlcanteven]

Clock into work, and everybody’s freaking out because the POS keeps freezing and glitching... Sure, I guess  I’ll take care of this. Step 1 and 2: Log out of the system and reboot each computer. Step 3: Email our IT guy and tell him the system’s broken again. Step 4: Our IT guy emails the boss company’s IT people, and they maybe can fix things because they’re the ones who’ve been using the system longer than us. If they can’t, they pretty much tell us to deal with it as is. Thanks people.

Direct Commerce Suite, you are a useless, antiquated point of sales system. You don’t make our lives as retailers any easier. You should be ashamed for developing this trash. Pretty much every five minutes while customers are waiting to have their purchases finalized, we’re standing there twiddling our thumbs while the order screen times out, we have to back out of the program, reboot the system, ring up the order again, watch it freeze again, try a different register, apologize to the customer for the umpteenth time and thank them for their patience, and then pray that the order screen doesn’t freeze again while trying to scan in the merchandise or bring up the payment screen.

My catch phrase has become, “No, computer! Why aren’t you letting me do the things I want to do?!” I’ve actually gotten to the point when I wonder if just smashing the computer will make it work better. It might, actually. We’ve had to write up manual receipts (so, using pen, paper, and manually calculating tax and discounts) for customers when the system fails us; at least this way we can send the customers on their merry way in a timely fashion and just deal with the system failures on our own time.