Note to Acer

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Dear Acer -

Okay, maybe I should have expected this. After all, how dare I ask for assistance regarding one of your products. And I even had the part number and everything for what I wanted. So it should have been a case of letting me know much such said part (a part intended to be replaced in the field) is.

But that got you thrown for a loop as it seems I'm the only person that ever got one of your systems in the Middle East and brought it back to the US with me. Certainly the only one who ever asked about getting an NTSC TV Tuner to replace the PAL one that came with it. But I guess that actually looking into the matter rather than being a script monkey is just a bit too much to ask for.

So it looks like my Acer RC950 desktop is an orphan in the United States. I'll keep that in mind should I ever decide to replace it.

No love
- Me

Comments

[preserver3.livejournal.com]

Well said, but on an unrelated note, I lament that the term "Script Monkey" identifies a tech support rep who merely follows a script, as opposed to a talented script writer who automates processes with a large tool box of scripts.


Please, please, internet, don't destroy code monkey or code mule for me. I beg of you.

[fnordx.livejournal.com]

People who write scripts that are actually useful are Script Magicians, since, surely, to the rest of us, what they are doing is just like magic.

[utoxin.livejournal.com]

In programming context, a script monkey would be someone who uses a script without understanding it. The people developing in are clearly script wizards (or maybe warlocks.... scripting is black magic.).

[utoxin.livejournal.com]

Also, since there's no edit here, my disclaimer:

I'm a professional developer, and don't really think scripting is black magic. But lots of other people do. ;)

[preserver3.livejournal.com]

There were script kiddies in the 80's who gathered on CompuServe chat to figure out how to share small snippets to get large gain.

There were script bunnies, who couldn't do anything without scripts written for them by others.

There were Script wolves, who tore bits and pieces of scripts together to produce malevolent forces for evil.

Then there were the script monkeys, who were basically just the monkey's at typewriters who made scripts because it saved keystrokes. They made scripts for every occasion, things that sent birthday reminders and scrubbed comments, did Rot13 on IRC, and generally made the world of that time through the 90's work.

There were script wizards, but the average gurus on a bulletin board were script monkeys. Wizards were reserved for collegian realms.

[buckaction.livejournal.com]

What can we expect really? They're not paid enough to think independently.

Luckily for my customers however, I am. (sort of)