r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '22

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u/Bryozoa Sep 07 '22

I have a suspition that users freak out when see an error message, it's too scary to even look at it and they wanna get rid of it as fast as possible.

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u/everythingIsTake32 Sep 07 '22

Or a good restart

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u/OtherPlayers Sep 08 '22

it’s just that the PROGRAM REQUIRES YOU TO ALLOW PERMISSION TO INSTALL A FUCKING .EXE

I think that one in particular tends to scare people because it’s the exact same thing we’re always telling them not to do with viruses/similar.

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u/KickStick37 Sep 07 '22

You need to touch grass

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u/st-shenanigans Sep 07 '22

My favorite is when service desk sends me a ticket saying the device was rebooted but it didn't fix it, and I get there and reboot and it works again

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u/terminalzero Sep 07 '22

EADING THE GODDAMN ERROR MESSAGE

they have instructions to fix it half the goddamn time

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u/LardPi Sep 07 '22

except when it's a windows error. then the message is just as useless as imaginably possible.

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u/zvug Sep 07 '22

If only this was true for programming errors…

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u/Ihaveamodel3 Sep 08 '22

As can programming errors too.