Ok, I'll admit it, I'm a bad person...

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

...Sometimes I give problem customers 'penalty reboots'.

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[trenthamfamily.livejournal.com]

How do you do that? I want to try!

[saintrigger.livejournal.com]

I once had a total prick of a customer who gave one of our junior techs a really hard time (and really unwarrented since the jr tech was a great tech) reinstall a ton of software which took them about 2 hours and numerous callbacks to fix something that could have been fixed with a simple configuation change :)

CHEERS FOR YOU!!

[liquidmercurial.livejournal.com]

If it's not a penalty reboot, it's a penalty hold for being a moron and an asshole! HEAR HEAR!!

[whisperoutloud.livejournal.com]

i usually do the penalty hold during the penalty reboot.
they never see it coming, just bam!! .. i throw in the penalties.
*sigh* good times

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Generally, it goes something like "Ok, click on Network Connections.. No, not Internet Options, no, not Connections, go back! Whaddya mean, you can't.. Where the heck are you now? No, close Outlook... Agh! Ok, penalty, close everything shut down and restart the computer, do-you-mind-if-i-put-you-on-hold-*BOOP!*"

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Takes the fight out of 'em a bit while still seeming legitimate!

[pookieman.livejournal.com]

When I was on the phones I made obnoxious overweight customers crawl under their desk to check cable connections for the sheer joy of listening to them breathe hard when they got back on the line.

[liquidmercurial.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO!! OMG that's GREAT!!!

[zig-mover.livejournal.com]

How about writing down their IP address and rebooting their routers randomly, hopefully in the middle of an important download ;)

[trenthamfamily.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

"Ok so what we're going to have to do here is crack open your case...no, no that's ok, it won't void the warranty....ok yea you see that little LED light that's on even though your system's unplugged? Yea, that's the "It's ok to touch everything, in fact make sure your hands are wet so you won't dehydrate your motherboard" light. Ok yea, just reseat...sorry pull this out and put it back in...yea ...hello? hello?"

Ok so it won't be quite THAT bad...but one can dream.