BEEP

[akage.livejournal.com]

First call of the morning:

User: "Hi, yes, there's something beeping in our telephone room and I don't think I can take it all day. Fix it, please."

Now, we're PC support. Not telephone support.

Me: "Telephone room? Have you called the telephone support desk?"

User: "Well I don't know if it's the telephones or not. There's a lot of boxes in that room too."

Me (realizing that this is probably their server closet): "Oookay. Are you having any computer issues?"

User: "No."

Me: "Telephone issues?"

User: "No, everything's working fine, it just won't stop beeping."

Me: "What exactly is beeping?"

User: "I DON'T KNOW! JUST FIX IT!"

Me: "....Ma'am, I can't just send a tech out because something somewhere is beeping..."

User: "Look, if something's beeping, then there must be something wrong."

Me: "Granted, but you just said that you're not seeing any problems with your computers or phones, and you can't tell which item is making the beeping."

User hangs up.


Is it wrong to hope it's a bomb?

Warning. yahoo acct fishing scam.

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

there is a yahoo acct fishing.

look at the link.
http://www.geocities.com/xl0lx_loverz_xl0lx/

even click on the link.

DO NOT ENTER ANY INFORMATION

they are useing it to steal yahoo login data. and therefore your yahoo account.

its very well done technically speaking i know i fell for it half asleep in the morning

keep aware i hope ti helps.

brain go down the hooooole

[ramennoodlegirl.livejournal.com]

quote from one of my favourite work orders of all time... "in room *** the way the computer has been set up makes it awkward for the faculty to use. they would like to have the computer turned to that it faces the class and they also want the wires placed out of the way so that no one hurts themselves."
solution? we walked in the room, turned the computer (which was in a cabinet ON WHEELS) about 45 degrees to face the class, and left. the wires weren't even a problem. sadly, i was the one that had to place this work order. i felt my i.q. plummet just typing it up. and these are nursing students and the people that are teaching them! imagine... our lives are in their hands!

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[hiroe.livejournal.com]

Completely offtopic, but how many of you geeky people have been following along with what's being called the "World Wide Web War I"? It's almost like watching serious thespian theatre for geeks. I can totally picture this onstage, with all the tards clashing like ancient roman/greek warriors. Horns blowing, helmets with brushes, plate armor made from old computer parts, riding furrback into battle.

( cut for those that have no interest )

Customers and coworkers aren't the only hassles techs have to deal with.

[shirenomad]

Consider the investor meeting. Consider presenting the software product, and then opening the floor for questions. Now consider hearing this one lobbed your way:

"How do you intend to compete with something like Mozilla Firefox?"

Is the proper answer:
a) ...because that's a web browser and this product isn't?
or
b) Oh, we've got that well in hand, sir. It's Jack in the Box we're really concerned with right now; we just can't match the tastiness of their milkshakes.