Stupid questions you get asked at work.

[shinigam1]

I work at Moes South Western Grill and people always ask me what Queso is :

Its is the nancho cheese stuff

[Tdog]

I use to be a waiter at On The Border a mexican grill type restaurant here in Arizona and I had an east coast customer on a particular night. I asked her if she wanted some Jalapenos pronouncing it in proper spanish as it is a spanish word. She looks at me like I'm the dumbest person alive and in a very snotty way says to me, " You mean Ja-Lap-Pen-Noes?" I shot her a even bigger ' you got to be the biggest retard you the world' look and said to her in a stern voice, "Nooooo, I mean Ha-La-Peen-Yo-Sss. It's a spanish word and does not sound how it looks in English."

[Zite83]

I'm a su chef at my restaurant and while on line helping the cooks out, the servers always ask, are you hot back there..? I reply "No the chef coat keeps me cool and sweat free while I'm in front of this 400 degree grill..." (while sweat is just pouring from my face.)

[Sarduci]

i work in advanced tech for like wireless internet and blackberry servers and such, and i get people that call in sometimes about their internet service and i say ok, lets figure out what's wrong with you internet, let get to your start menu...and they say "what's that?"

right then i know it's gonna be a long call...

another one my but i didnt think anyone could actually be this dumb but...

My friend starts laughing one day uncontrollibly (sp) and i was like WTF?...so i go over to his desk and after like 5 minutes of him not being able to talk cause he's laughing so hard. He said someone called him and said they broke their cup holder on their pc, and he was like what? a cup holder? (keep in mind we dont support general computer questions) and he started asking him what model he had and he said it was a HP and he was like...crazy...so my friend jumps on the HP website too see the new computer that has a cupholder in it and he couldn't find it and he started asking this guy about his pc and where the cup holder was and it ends up he was using his dvd drive for a cupholder and he broke it when he put a cup of coffee in it...and my friend started laughing and had to transfer the guy cause he couldn't talk to him... i also laughed my ass off when he told me that...

I read that on a BBS post like 15+ years ago. (I think i was 14 at the time.. 14.4k modem FTW). At the time a CDROM drive was about $500 and required a special interface card. lol

Special interface card? Ha! my Sound Blaser AWE32 with Wavetable extension had one built in! And i bought the 4 x 1mb SIMMs to put on it to load MIDI instructions to it! I still have it sitting on a shelf because I paid $500 for the whole dang thing. Too bad new computers don't have ISA slots anymore.... or run MFC hard drives..... dang it....

[Sarduci]

" You mean we have to pay you and THEN you'll support it?"

or my favorite

"Why didn't you tell me that we don't pay you for support??? You wasted 3 hours of my time waiting for you to call back on something you don't even fix!!"

Yes, calling back people who don't pay me anything is a top priority.....

[Zaelar]

I'm usually the one asking the stupid questions.

I find it funny that forum admins could just copy/paste threads in their own forum into these threads.

[Marathon]

Still on summer vaction so I am not dealing with stupid questions on a regular basis. However, people do ask me if I like summer vaction and I kinda think that is a stupid question !!!!

[Psybercop]

My Top 2:



1. Is it really Illegal to ______________ ? (Probably or you wouldn't have to ask/be in handcuffs)

2. Are you really writing me a ticket for _______________ ? (No it's small joke I play on myself to see if I can laugh later)

sme of the questions I have heard over the yeas make me set back and go wow!

[Marathon]

1. Is it really Illegal to ______________ ? (Probably or you wouldn't have to ask/be in handcuffs)

2. Are you really writing me a ticket for _______________ ? (No it's small joke I play on myself to see if I can laugh later)

sme of the questions I have heard over the yeas make me set back and go wow!

LOL !!!

Thanks for sharing those. My wife works as an assist D.A. - so i kinda get the same stories at home, but from the court room side of it.

[Molt]

I was giving a tech demo of an then-upcoming satellite television service and got asked "So, with this new satellite television service will I be able to pick up television channels?". Somehow I did manage to resist saying "No, you've found the one flaw in our system".

My brother though doesn't bother to resist these things. For a while he worked the phones at the complaints desk of the Royal Mail and someone phoned and furiously demanded "Does your company have a policy of hiring incompetents?" to which he calmly asked "Are you after the recruitment line?". As he said if a boss'd been listening in on the call and asked him about it he can always just say that he was enquiring about the recruitment policy and thought they'd know more than he did.