sssiiiiggghhh....

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

work order summary:
monitor is unplugged but they can't figure out which cord belongs to it


is monday over yet?

Comments

[canray.livejournal.com]

No. I prescribe copious amounts of drinking as well as judicious useage of the Clue-By-Four.

[chaobell]

ay yi yi. How do those people dress themselves in the morning?

[canray.livejournal.com]

They have their Mommies do it, that's how.

That's why they're dressed so funny.

"Ray, those are called 'Suits', and that's what they're supposed to wear."

Gahd! Even worse. UNIFORMS!

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

How do those people dress themselves in the morning?

And why, more often than not, do they make 10 times what I do?

(Theories about inverse correlation between intelligence and income, as well as between intelligence and level of education, omitted to avoid getting my ass flamed .. :D )

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

there have actually been studies that show TALLER people tend to get more money.

bastards.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

i'm six foot why am i making shit all?

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

cause you're a GIRL, it cancels out the tall :(

[azurelunatic]

At least they were honest about it?

[canray.livejournal.com]

That and a Buck-Twenty'll get you a coffee.

[azurelunatic]

Think about the alternative.

"The monitor's broken!"
"Is it plugged in?"
"Yeah."
[troubleshooting]
[tech is sent]
[monitor is actually unplugged]
[tech slaughters users]

[canray.livejournal.com]

Justifiable Homicide.

[ichijo-hikaru.livejournal.com]

...or is it self defense?

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

mercy killing?

[chaobell]

In a few states, it would probably be covered under "he needed killin', Yer Honor."

[canray.livejournal.com]

Wow, a reason to move the US. Who'dathunkit???

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

this made me LOL quite loudly at work

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

not necessarily, this work order has been filtered through a tier 1 helpdesk, so they COULD have gone through a rigamarole to get to this point, you never know ;)

[azurelunatic]

In that case, Tier 1 may claim the head.

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

I've often resorted to the "scuba diver"* method of finding the cord .. find the monitor and follow the cable that comes out of it that isn't the power cord. That works more often than not.

(*from the method of finding a scuba regulator without having to look for it -- start at the tank and run your hand down the regulator hose until it catches the regulator .. handy if you're not able to see too well, like if you just got seawater in your mask during a bad water entry ..)

The related problem of why some people build these amazing rat's nests of cabling behind their desk that defy any sort of cable tracing is harder to solve ..

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

there is a certain point at which cables actually melt into one another

[azurelunatic]

My roommate had to give the bad news to corporate that one of the cash register monitors was damaged due to pulling the cable too hard in a nest of cable spaghetti. It's a very pink monitor now.