Contrary to popular belief, I do not have magical powers because I can replace your keyboard.

[hairbrush]

Background: I do freelance repair while I'm finishing up school. I work out of my home.

Okay, this client dropped off his Sony laptop with me because the keyboard needed to be replaced. Seems simple enough, right? Well, I fix that, call him to let him know he can pick it up, should be end of story, right?

...Of course it isn't that easy.

Colonel

Comments

[erunamiryene]

I think to respond to this appropriately, I'd need gifs (which I don't have at work). XD

If I leave it with you a few more days, can you make it an Apple for me?

Beyond "... bzuh?", you shoulda slapped a white coat of paint and an apple sticker on his computer. And then said "bazinga" when you gave it to him. XD

[mouser]

Screw that!

"I can, but it will cost you $2000. Up front."

That would be a nice little profit on a $1200 purchase.

[erunamiryene]

Agreed. This is an excellent plan.

[historychick49]

This.

[tattooofhername]

I think this is probably up there among the dumbest things I've ever heard from a customer.

[hairbrush]

It was insanely difficult not to just turn into someone from an episode of Maury and respond with, "Bitch, you crazy?"

[tattooofhername]

If I ever have a customer-facing job again it will be one where I am allowed and encouraged by management to respond like that.

[dave_iii]

See, somewhere along the line he must have heard *something* that gave him this idea. I find myself curious as to WHAT that event was.

[hairbrush]

I'm hoping he just misunderstood what a Hackintosh is..

[ghostdandp]

Sometimes you have to make it a basic analogy for them, they don't get the world of computers and think it's all magical and we can change physics and put the sony into a replicator, have it reclaim the matter, and make it into a apple.

I probably would have used something along the lines of "If I give you a Ford Focus, can you convert it into a Toyota Camry for me?"

[cai1987]

"No, what do you think I am, a mechanic?"

[ravenofdreams]

I actually recently used this analogy to explain to someone why they couldn't just move their Windows computer's programs to their brand-new Mac, even if they changed the file extension from .exe to .app. "Putting a Ferrari sticker on your Ford doesn't make it a Ferrari, does it?"

[dave_iii]

I blame TV and movies. So many absurd expectations, so little payoff.

[notthebuddha]

Was this guy an actual, commissioned officer rather than a fried chicken salesman? Because I think his boss needs to know this guy's post has been abandoned from the neck up.