My Supervisor's Tale...

[canray.livejournal.com]

Here's my Old Supervisor's Favorite story. He's typically called into training groups to relate it.

(After the typical, "Give me a Supervisor NOW!" sitch)

Caller: "How fast do your modems go?"

Supervisor: "Well, depending on what area you're in, they have a bandwidth of..."

Caller: "In Miles Per Hour."

Supervisor: "Huh?"

Caller: "OK, sit tight, and be ready for a story. I just got the service installed, Internet only. The Tech had to run a line to my house, in fact. It was working great, then, suddenly, the wire started ripping itself from the wall. Then my modem went with it, and then the computer. Very quickly."

Supervisor: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh kay..."

Caller: "Well, I decided to follow it, seeing as it took my computer with it. I found my computer a half-block away in the ditch, and the modem wrapped up in a Transport Truck with the cable used to connect it to the post. The Truck Driver asked if it was my modem. When I said 'Yes', he punched me in the face."

Supervisor: "Oh, look at that, I found a Supervisor."

Caller: "Good. Know this isn't your fault. I'm going to complain to the highest place I can go."

Apparently, enough of this actually happened that the guy got a full refund, and replacement for his Computer.

Comments

[xforge.livejournal.com]

No, I was being facetious; I know he didn't *actually* string it at eye height. FTR you did say "transport truck" but I didn't realize it delineates a specific kind of truck. Or would that be the same as "tractor trailer?"

[canray.livejournal.com]

One of these:

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Yah, in the US, "tractor trailer." That was what I thought.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Whoa! THat's a tractor trailer? Thanks for that, I had NO idea!

[xforge.livejournal.com]

That was sarcasm, right? 'Cuz I was just pointing out that the OP was using nomenclature that us rubes to the South didn't also use, and in fact I didn't even know Canadians use a different phrase for that thing.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Nope, I honestly didn't know that was called a tractor trailer . I'm not sure if that's an australian thing, or a me-being-oblivious thing, though! Oooh, husband just walked in - he says it's called a Prime Mover here. I feel better that he wouldn't have called it a tractor trailer either :)

[wibbble]

I guess that's where Optimus Prime got his name from, then.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, that makes sense! I never even connected that. I just thought Prime for number 1 because he's da man :P

[canray.livejournal.com]

I guess it has a different name depending on where you are.

Prime Mover, however, is a Military Term that probably just carried over in Australia.

"That's just Prime." ;-P

BTW: One thing that most North Americans don't know about is the Australian "Truck Trains". Prime Movers/Tractor Trailer/Transport Truck with a number of Trailers behind it. Three, Four, even Five after it, all going through the Outback.

(Dad's a Truck Driver, so I get a few strange tidbits here and there.).

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

I've always known them as "Road trains". I'd never really thought about them not being a North American thing, but I suppose we would have more areas with no normal trains and stuff to use for transporting stuff.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Road_Train2.jpg - there's a picture here of one :D

[canray.livejournal.com]

That's the right term. *Shakes Head*

Sorry, my bad.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

That's ok :D I'm impressed you knew about them! Yay for your Dad :)

[canray.livejournal.com]

Big YAY!

He's also got his own Tech Support Tale, despite never working as a computer tech.