'Could you fax us some paper for the fax machine?': 25 Times coworkers asked utterly clueless questions

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    Product - Con n What's the stupidest thing you've had to explain to a coworker? Had to explain to the cashier that typing 0.5 into the calculator when when closing equals 50 cents, not 5 cents. She insists that if you don't put the zero after the 5 then it only counts it was 5 cents. C/CE MRC 7 8 52 CITIZEN OFF M- M+ 9 6 LC-210NR AUTO POWER OFF % + X
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    Font - What's the stupidest thing you've had to explain to a coworker?
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    Font - Mighty72 Not me but a friend had to explain that it's 3 hours between 9am and noon. Not to one, or two but to three coworkers. Finally he flips his s and screams "Anyone who think it's four hours between 9 and 12 is a ING MORON!". He tried everything, even made a sketch on paper of a clock and tried to explain. The way they did it was like this: they put up one finger and said "it's nine, (puts up another finger) ten, (puts up another finger) eleven, (puts up another finger), and twelve.
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    Font - ExxInferis "In the English language, if a word starts with a 'Q', it is almost always followed by a 'U'." "Oh yeah? What about croissant?!" sigh
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    Font - ffxivthrowaway03 A screen that says "Enter your telephone number" with a box under it to type in your telephone number and click Continue. That's literally the only thing on that screen. "What am I supposed to do here?" I... how the f do you not starve to death because you forgot how to eat food?
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    Font - apostasism All the same person: That you can keep typing when you reach the right side of the screen, the text will wrap to the next line. He would hit enter when his text reached the side of the screen, like a typewriter. I swear it's like I blew his mind when I told him to just keep typing. That color printers need black ink/toner. He was asking why the color printer needs black toner. That the printer is not in fact low on cyanide I miss working with him because he gave me the best sto
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    Font - Saintblack That the 2nd monitor she requested is not just for sticky notes. Literal sticky notes, not the windows version. Her entire screen just has yellow pieces of paper on it.
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    Human body - [deleted] that a hippo isn't a bear, or a fish.
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    Font - + [deleted] That mini horses were not regular horses that did not have enough room to live and grow....
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    Font - majortentpole A woman at work was complaining that the scanner she was using wouldn't read a barcode. I looked over at what she was doing, and said "you have to hold it far enough away that the laser is wider than the barcode". She did, and then claimed no one has ever told her that. She's worked here for years, and scanning paperwork is something that's done multiple times per hour. She's not bright.
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    Rectangle - YellowFlySwat That looking at an eclipse while pregnant won't make your baby deformed
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    Font - The Ugly_One82 Just because we switched you all over to gmail, you can't just call everything "Google" and expect me to know what you're talking about. IE/Firefox/Chrome = Google. Email of any sort = Google. Bing/Yahoo/Google = Google. Windows/Network login = Logging into Google.
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    Font - Chadwick_Sexington That ham comes from pigs.
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    Font - slice_of_pi I'm not sure this counts, because I didn't explain much, just sort of boggled at the stupidity of it. Phone rings (Me) "Department of blah blah, how may I direct your call?" (other party) "Hey, /u/slice of pi this is Dimwit at the satellite office in Podunk. Could you fax us some paper for the fax machine? We're out." (Me) "Sure th...wait, what?" She actually meant it.
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    Gesture - BurntUmberit It's chilled gazpacho not chilled Gestapo. Big difference.
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    Font - [deleted] Don't f ing manually sum numbers from a spreadsheet, then manually enter the total back into the spreadsheet. YES, REALLY.
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    Font - Had to explain to the cashier that typing 0.5 into the calculator when when closing equals 50 cents, not 5 cents. She insists that if you don't put the zero after the 5 then it only counts it was 5 cents.
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    Font - xAlkaline13x We hang Christmas stockings along the walls of our bar. A waitress was real excited that we hung one for Jesus. I had to explain it was for Jesus, he works in the kitchen.
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    Font - A 70-something year old coworker of mine has been manually typing out the same confirmation email (about three paragraphs) for at least the last ten years. I had to show her how to copy and paste because none of the other morons in my office ever thought about helping her.
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    Font - NWBoomer If the printer doesn't print your document the first time, repeatedly clicking the Print button a bunch more times won't convince it to pint.
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    Font - PM_ME_UR_XYLOPHONES You have to plug in the usb receiver for your wireless keyboard and mouse to function.
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    Font - jakelikesnaps Explaining on why he shouldn't click on links from junk emails. Just don't. I don't care if it says it's from a financial adviser of a distant relative you've never heard of before who had recently passed away. Don't do it.
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    Font - sassyjordo I got so tired of trying to explain it, so I had to physically show a coworker how to break down an empty cardboard box.
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    Font - o bpnj Worked in an area known for bad commuter traffic. Coworker was convinced that if she stayed late in the office and left after traffic cleared up she would get home sooner than if she left at 5pm. Arguments took place for WEEKS. I couldn't get her to understand that she would spend less time in the car, but still get home later than if she left at 5. Most frustrating experience of my life made worse because she made fun of ME for not understanding such a simple concept.
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    Font - [deleted] "This is how you are supposed to do your job. You do not come to me immediately with work, it gets scheduled through someone else and if I am not busy with another project I will work on it. You've been at this company for 2 years and I've told you the difference between a JPG and a PDF about 40 times."

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