there is nothing so intimate as a whisper
Oh fack, I just put in the tech request everyone hates. The "MY PRINTER COMMITTED SUICIDE, COME QUICK, COME QUICK!!!" I didn't include in the request that at Time of Death I had been printing a 60-page document because I thought that might actually be the cause, and maybe we are not supposed to overtax the poor things with 60-page docs.
So he came quick, plugged the thing in, and left. Left me sitting in the dunce corner mumbling ha-ha whaddaya know apologies, grimacing at the 4050, thinking it might be worth having to put in another tech request just to give it one swift kick. Anyway I think he said he would go delete the request which means maybe he doesn't hate me (you know, instead of filling out the Services Provided part of the form with "I plugged it in for her").
So now they're learning tricks - unplugging themselves AND laughing at me. I'll show you.
5 comments:
a) we never care if it gets us out of our chair.
b) we will talk about this instance to our friends, names may or may not be mentioned.
it's like the classic IT service desk story, basically a guy calls he's got a blue screen and it tells him to hit the "any" key. he asks the tech guy where the "any" key is on the keyboard. he's found "esc", "del", and "alt" but no "any" key.
which is why now the computer says hit a key to continue. see? a historical lesson.
trust me, i've had to do that plenty of times and had it done to be just as many.
"did you try turning it on?" - tech
"oh. there's an on button?" - me
"yep."
"where?"
at least i never used my CD-ROM drive as a cupholder.
who do you know used the cdrom as a cupholder?
i thought for sure everyone had heard THAT techie urban legend ...
omg, and that's for real. that belongs in a reader's digest or something ...
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