In the beginning...

Welcome to I-Tarded, a celebration of the stupid shit people ask us every day of our miserable lives. These are real questions and conversations, asked and said to us in all seriousness by people who should REALLY know better-- by that we mean that this is not a forum to berate the people who are honestly seeking answers and have never been exposed to this stuff before. It's a place, rather, to bitch about the i-tards (IT retards) that surround us and waste our oxygen with questions anyone who has 5 seconds and access to Google should be able to answer. It should be noted that I am, in fact, NOT an IT worker, but a data analyst who happens to be unlucky enough to know more about hardware and software than the complete idiots that surround me...and they all know it.

Today's entries:

"How do I draw a line in PowerPoint? I click and nothing happens."
Solution: User (with a Masters in IT) is not clicking and dragging to give the line length, preferring instead to click once and stare at screen.

"I want to attach a file to an e-mail, but it keeps getting inserted in the message instead. That's confusing to the recipients....they might not know there's an attachment if it's way down in a string of e-mails."
Solution: After futile arguing that the end result was the same and that Outlook puts a paperclip next to messages with attachments, showed user (20 year veteran of computer use) how to change e-mail type from Rich Text to plain text back to HTML to avoid troublesome insertion issues. Suspect that user has other insertion issues beyond the scope of this blog.