Classic,
I remember the time when this Compaq dealer phoned trying to sell us some windows NT servers with Exchange, he wanted to speak to my boss (as he had spoke before) but I was determined to not pass him on, I tried to get rid of him and he was like this is my name, office and mobile number. I pretended to write it all down to get the call over with and just as I was about to say goodbye........he asked me to read back the details he just gave me!
....Busted!
I think I just hung up with embarassment.
At PC world, a guy was in front of me in the returns queue and I heard some script kiddie worker telling him that the hard drive could be fixed but it would need to be sent to........a lab containing a room with no air in it! I did not know that PC world staff had access to an Interstellar Medium! very clever. I think NASA would be interested with PC world offering this service on earth.
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:40 +0100, David Simon Cooper wrote:
Plusnet "don't use TCP/IP, it is non-standard"
Blimey, plusnet developed their own ethernet stack!...lol
Gotta love first line support, reminds me of my dealings with BT (we don't support anything without a MS license sticker)
Me (pretending to be running Windows XP Pro) BT Customer support "ok sir if you can open the control panel" Me (cd /etc) "Ok done that"
It did go horribly wrong a few times when I (from memory) gave them the wrong error box, or described the wrong GUI feedback as I converted it in realtime from the Linux error logs I was seeing. Usually I played the "sorry the line is breaking up, can you repeat that" game as I frantically tried to get my (unconnected) windows laptop to a similar point in the configuration...fun times
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