Bad Toilet...

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

Recap: IS/IT Helldesk for a hospital.

Received an email today (I swear, it's the long weekend that makes people absolutely insane) from someone in the surgical part. People know that we're tech support, but this made me giggle:

Subject: Bad Toilet

We need someone to come fix a running toilet.
Thanks

The subject alone made me snicker. "Bad toilet! No cookie!" Maybe it has a virus... :)

Comments

[falnfenix]

you know, i LOVE when we get calls like that.

seriously. they make me laugh 'till my sides hurt.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

One of my mottos is that we get calls for everything more complicated then a light switch.

I'm so glad I don't work there. It's bad enough here.

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad we don't get those here...

I'd be half-tempted to tell them to plug it in and stick a fork in it, wiggle it around.

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

Hey... I lol'ed. :)

Truth is, I could probably fix it... I took apart my own toilet to fix it at home. But...

That would make the Helldesk short-staffed, plus there are liability issues (not to mention hygiene!), and if I broke it, it would suck.

...that's why we have Maintenance/Engineering. :)

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

I dunno... light switches can be pretty complicated...

That up/down motion constitutes as "moving parts."

/teasing. <3

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

an oldie, but one of my favorites. and something about a bad, running toilet brought it to mind.

[jecook]

Kinda like this?

[toxico.livejournal.com]

"Problem sounds like memory leak issue.

Toilet would not respond to ping request or Telnet. Monitoring shows toilet as online. Further inspection shows port blockage; toilet will not allow traffic out at all, or in without buffer overflow. Suspect DNS issues.

Flushed DNS cache and restarted. Toilet accepted/processed packets normally."

[laviededavid.livejournal.com]

priceless...

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

*snicker* DNS cache is somehow much more fitting for me than you probably intended (DNS was the old German acronym for DNA...)

Also, gratuituous icon for the OP.

;)

[toxico.livejournal.com]

I was born in Nürnberg, so it's kind of relevant.

Also:

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

That reminded me of Koko the gorilla, who learned sign language and invented names to call people when she was angry. One of them was "dirty bad toilet".

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

O noes! The ants are taking over! :OOO

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

/win

:)

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

He-ey! Jokergirl! I remember you from wow_ladies! /glomp

And I love that icon. <3

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

/snickers

Excellent. :D

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

Heya! :D

I still miss the wow_ladies, though I haven't played in ages...

;)

[zendequervain.livejournal.com]

Doesn't mean you can't come on over there and hang out! ♥

[rorted.livejournal.com]

Asset tag or GTFO.