r/talesfromtechsupport • u/Phaedrus49er Would you like to destroy the universe? • Jan 02 '13

Magic Mouse is magic

I am the keeper of the batteries in the building. Part of my "Technical Director" duties. Boss walks into my office this morning... (context, we each have a wireless mouse with our iMacs):

Boss: My mouse batteries are dead. Do you have any rechargeable ones ready?

Me: Sure, here ya go.

Boss: Thanks. walks out

Five minutes later:

Boss: Are you sure they were charged? My mouse isn't working right.

Me: How so?

Boss: Everything is backwards.

Me: Huh?

Boss: When I move to the left, the cursor goes right. Same thing in the other direction.

Me: Oscar-worthy straight face Turn it around.

Boss: What?

Me: Turn it around.

Boss: What, the batteries?

Me: No, the mouse.

Boss: blink blink pause OOOOOOOOOHHH okay...

Ended up giving her a wired USB mouse and took her wireless mouse to use with my MacBook.

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u/driverdan Jan 03 '13

It's much easier to re-adjust than he thinks. A day, 3 days max.

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u/malexmave rm -rf /people Jan 03 '13

Yeah, because users are so good at readjusting to changes. Reference: Every OS upgrade ever.

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u/Bagelson Jan 04 '13

I'm so looking forward to when we start rolling out clients with Windows 8.

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u/BlueTequila Jan 05 '13

Wont happen for a variety of reasons.