It's quiet. Too quiet.

[tuba-man.livejournal.com]

It's a quiet day today, so I called my tech support line to kill some time.

*ring ring*

Me:  "$Company, this is tuba_man, how may I help you?"

Me:  "My computer broke.  Fix it!"

Me:  "What seems to be the problem?"

Me:  "No interbutts"

Me:  "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

Me:  "Not yet, let me try..."

...aaand the call dropped.  I just managed to hang up on myself by rebooting my computer whilst on the softphone.  I'm my own worst client today.  I feel accomplished.

Comments

[fluffydragon.livejournal.com]

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[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

No "interbutts"? Wow, for that one alone you win/lose. ^_^

[tuba-man.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) I wasn't intentionally trying to be that incompetent, but it provided some amusement, so I went with it.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

I'm totally stealing it. "Hey honey, you'll never guess what garbage they're pulling on the interbutts today..." ^_^

[tuba-man.livejournal.com]

Feel free. It's a great one-word preface to a story about the internet doing something dumb. :)

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

I think you've just given me some inspiration for my 2010 attempt at NaNoWriMo... a creative non-fiction short novel involving tech support. I believe interbutts will need to be involved.

I'm highly amused by this and also jealous of your quiet day. This has been a forced sanity (insanity?) break for me.

[tuba-man.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, I spent my afternoon getting wrangled into being the engineering portion of a couple of sales meetings later this week. Wheeeeeeeeee. :/ Not exactly my favorite part of the job, but better me than having a sales-only guy out there selling something we can't provide.