Tech Support South African Style!

[cybirea.livejournal.com]

This is from an e-mail sent to me by a South African Tech Support colleague. It's second hand information. Just thought I'd pass it on. :-)

'Hello, technical support, how can I help you'?

Customer: 'Last night my computer started making a lot of hissing noise at me so I shut it down. This morning when I turned it on the computer started hissing and cracking, then started smoking and a bad smell, then nothing'.

SUPPORT: 'I will have a technician come over first thing this morning, just leave the computer just like it is, so they can find the problem and fix it, or change it out with another computer. Give me your address; phone number and the technician will be there just as soon as they can'.

When the technician got there, the lady showed the technician where the computer was, said what happened to it; this is what the technician found.



Click to get a bigger image. :-)













It's a South African Spitting Cobra better known as a 'Mfezi' the 'Staffie'!

The worse thing I have to deal with is house spiders and dust. I love living in a temperate climate!

Comments

[hopefulnebula]

My dad was remote-supporting someone in Hawaii when I was little whose keyboard wasn't working. The thing was, half of it wasn't working, and then it would be fine but the other half wasn't working, etc. etc. etc.

First thing he had her do was turn the keyboard upside-down and give it a good, hard shake.

He had to take the phone away from his ear shortly afterward, as the woman started shouting "THERE'S A GECKO IN MY KEYBOARD!!!!"

(The point being, even if the story in the original post isn't true, stuff like it has happened before.)

[falnfenix]

HEEE!!! i'd be tickled to BITS if there were a gecko in my keyboard.



...then i'd keep it and love it and hug it and call it George.