Co-worker killing frenzy

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

N00BS! They're everywhere at my workplace now. Thank feck management hired more, but along with n00bs comes n00b grief.

We have a couple of gimps posting to our spam list with call notes they find HILARIOUS.

OUTLANDISH and STRANGE occurrences like CUSTOMERS OVERESTIMATING THE EXTENT OF OUR SUPPORT SCOPE AND WANTING HELP WITH A VIDEO CARD! HAHAH!

Or perhaps the timeless side-splitting jape of AN ELDERLY WOMAN NOT KNOWING HOW TO SCROLL AND ASKING FOR HELP WITH THAT!!! TOO GODDAMN FUNNY!.

Meh. At least they're taking calls.

RFC lepermime

[lepermime.livejournal.com]

I'm currently using gentoo as my linux distro of choice. However I've run into something that seems more than a bit odd to me. The difference between what packages I have installed and the amount of space that is being used seems to be at odds with eachother. It looks to me like there are packages installed that aren't showing up in world.

Cutting out output that is confusing me.

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I've deleted all of the portage tmp files in /var/tmp/portage
I've cleaned up everything that I can find that would be causing the problem. Not sure where else to go. And adding space really isn't an option at this point. Any suggestions, tips, hints?

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[thesawg.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder if people are really listening to my openings or if they really are just that dumb.

And what city are we calling from today?
Mississippi is not a city. Texas is not a city. Idaho is not a city. These are what are known as states.
I had to stop using And where are we calling from today? because I was sick of getting "My house."

May I have your phone number, area code first?
Ten digits here people, not seven. I'll even settle for eleven (some give 1-(area code)-number).

And what is the area code there?
Three digits here people. The five digit number is your zip code. And I have no idea where you can get four, but this is the same person who thought Texas was a city.


It’s usually not too bad, I get response like those maybe a few times a week. Today, though, they are all calling me. In half a shift I have gotten each of those three times each.

I think you called the wrong number.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

If you call me up to try to get help in refilling our cartriages with a third party vendor's ink I am going to be less then helpful. Please don't be surprised. If I'm in a good mood I will transfer you to sales so you can buy our special refill kit which comes pre-assembled and includes a fresh ink cartriage, no messy bottles to squeeze, no spills, just stick it in the printer and use it.

Clients :p

[heathwitch.livejournal.com]

Whenever a client orders web hosting from us, they receive a detailed email containing all their FTP information -- basically everything they'll need to upload their webpages to the space. It's laid out nice and simple, so even idiots can understand it. Or so we thought.

A client has just emailed, in respose to the instructions (which he has oh-so-helpfully left below the body of his email), and asked, "How do I upload files?"

*facedesks*

The FTP instructions include the line: Make sure that all your html code goes into the public_html directory. Having re-explained the instructions to the client, he now asks, "Does it matter what file/folder I store them all under?"

Waaah. *facedesks*

Best EUPOTD:

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

This is the best line I've heard yet...

When asked what his speed is currently going at (during a complaint about Slow Speed):

"It says it's 100 mega-balls per second."

I couldn't correct him. I would've started laughing and been unable to stop.

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[mtlchick.livejournal.com]

No firewall, no Windows updates, no anti-virus, no anti-spyware = No shit your computer doesn't work.
*insert sound of tech dying in shock that it's worked this long*

Holy f*ck

[hoffman-log.livejournal.com]

This today from my manager.

"What if we incorporate the forest into our local domain?"

O.o

I tried... Oh lord I tried to hold it back but such brewing energy cannot be restrained.  What started as a smirk and a cough soon turned into a chuckle and evolved into bellowing laughter.

If stereotypes prove true, I'm fired :-P

_MaH