And I'm supposed to be 3rd line here...

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Last call of the day took about an hour. Some gems:

'No, that's a network cable. It won't fit in the ADSL socket on the filter.'

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'The black lead with the brick is an adapter. It provides power to the modem.'

'How?'

'...by electricity?'

'Oh!'

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'No, the yellow cable with the rectangular plastic plug goes into your computer. It won't fit into the filter.

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'Please plug the power lead into a power socket.'

'What does that look like?'

'...'

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'Please plug the phone into the phone socket on the filter.'

'What's a phone?'

'...'

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'The grey cable is the ADSL cable. It goes from the ADSL socket on the modem to the filter. The filter. The fil...The thing you've got plugged into your phone socket. No! That's your network cable! It does not go into the filter! No, the grey cable does not go into your computer. It goes into the filter. Yes. That thing. Got it? Good. What? The other end? You've plugged it into the modem. Oh. You've unplugged it? Okay, put it back in. No, in the socket you took it out of. Not the filter. The modem. Plug the end of the grey cable back into the socket you took it out of. On the modem. No, that is a network socket. Yellow cable goes into yellow socket, grey cable goes into grey socket. Yes, that's right. Yes. It goes in there. Good. Now tu...what? The other end? The. Other. End. The end I just told you to plug into the filter? Oh. You took it out. Why? Well, both ends need to be connected at the same time. Yes. Yes, they do. It won't work otherwise.'

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Aside to my manager:

'I'm going to ask her to change a microfilter. Gods help me.'

'Godspeed to you.'

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This is the future of our species, people...

*cross-posted to my own LJ*