Only in the IS industry

I was reading Jared's blog earlier today, specifically an article about a guy needing help settingup a computer monitor, and I thought to myself "Self, that is SO right!". I liked Jared's examples (go read the article, you layabout!) and decided to add a few things people have asked me to do over the years. This list is factually correct, and so may be used by anyone doing a research paper on the effect computers have on the average human brain (basically, they turn to a gooey, jelly type substance. Unless they were like that before.)

1. Switch on a computer. I kid you not. Doesn't happen so often these days, but as recently as about 6 years ago people seemed to feel they needed help turning on a new PC. Of course, you can't tel l them what you really think, so you stand there going through what's happening:
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