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[the-paco.livejournal.com]

Paco: Me
Cx: Customer

Paco: "Thank you for calling *cough* dsl, my name is Paco, how can I help you?
Cx: "The internet won't work!"
Paco: *So start charging it rent.* "What's it doing wrong?"
Cx: "I've got no lights and I can't get to any websites."
Paco: "You mean you have no lights on the modem?"
Cx: "That's right."
Paco: *My head hurts* "Ok, stupid question, is the modem plugged in and turned on?"
Cx: "Of course it is! I've got this cable running right to my computer?"
Paco: "The yellow one?"
Cx: "Yes."
Paco: "That's the ethernet. Is there a black one plugged into the modem?"
Cx: "Black... one?"
Paco: "Uh-huh."
Cx: "There's a beige one, that leads right to the phone jack. Is that it?"
Paco: "It's not black, is it?"
Cx: "No."
Paco: "Then it's not the one I asked for. Where's the black one plugged in?"
Cx: "Oh, it's just hanging there near the modem."
Paco: "Plug it in."
Cx: "Ok. It still doesn't work!"
Paco: "Do you have lights?"
Cx: "Yes, but they're all flashing, the ready light, the ethernet, and the USB won't come on at all! This thing is messed up, I need a new modem!"
Paco: "Ready light stopped flashing yet?"
Cx: "Yes, it did, but it's still not *AIM sign-in sound* What was that?"
Paco: "You're online. Anything else I can help you with?"
Cx: "Oh, *click click* I AM! I guess I should have checked that 'power' thing first. Hehe!"
Paco: "Yes, I guess you should have. Thank you for calling."



Paco: "Thank you for calling *cough* DSL service. My name is Paco. How may I help you?"
Cx2: "I can't connect to the internet."
Paco: "Which DSL modem are you using?"
Cx2: "Westell Wirespeed."
Paco: "And are you connected directly, or using a router?"
Cx2: "Directly, well, this computer is."
Paco: "How are the other computers connected?"
Cx2: "Well I have two other computers, but I'm not using them right now."
Paco: "Do they connect to this DSL?"
Cx2: "Yes."
Paco: "How?"
Cx2: "Through the linksys."
Paco: "So there IS a router."
Cx2: "Oh, then yes, we do have a router."


I know misogyny is bad, but it doesn't help that both these callers are female. I hate women. But I feel okay with that because I think the only thing worse than women are men.

What's the equivalent word for 'man hating'? I know misogyny, but I need an equivalent word to express my derision of mobile phallus platforms as well.

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[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

Being a woman I too hate dealing with women.

And this is the line I hate:

"Oh this is too complicated! I'll have to wait until my husband comes home to unplug things! I can't do it. He handles all the computer stuff!"

When is unplugging a modem "computer stuff?"

I feel like saying, "Do you have to wait until your husband comes home to wipe your arse too?"

Stupid, fucking helpless women!

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

excellante! Thank yew!

[ximinez]

I think the word you want is misanthrope. ;)

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

that fits as well, but there are times when my hatred for each gender really stands out and is defined.

Such as when a woman plays flirty with me then asks for a $5 drink. What am I, an ATM/Barkeep?
Then there's the men who lap it up and pay for all these womens drinks. It's like petting a puppy who pees on your rug.

Then there's the women who say "Oh, you're so sweet, and I really like you. If only I weren't married/in a relationship/gay/sworn off all things phallic/x miles away (where x is the miles you're willing to travel to get laid plus 50), I'd SO go out with you!"

Then there's the men who stalk women into saying things like this, since they just can't seem to understand it when the woman says "No" or "I'm not attracted to you" or "I have mace". So I get to do the dance of escapism and lies just because women have been trained since junior high that they have to have an excuse to not want to have sex with us, and men reinforce it by acting like complete tits when they hear "No."

Gnar. We hates the genderses. WE HATES THEM!

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

You get to deal both with those and the sexist bastards who think you can't do anything technical because you lack a protuberance from your crotch that shares behavioral influence with your brain.

I've not had to deal with those directly, though my jaw still drops at the sheer audacity of their bigotry.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I hate women. But I feel okay with that because I think the only thing worse than women are men.

This is my new motto.

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

I hate it when such women are employed as technicians. Claiming you're helpless when doing your job is about the fastest way for me to want to smack you with the clue by four. Can't say as I know many men that pull the "helpless" line - they just pick different, often more obnoxious stupids rather than passive-aggressive.

(not you, of course, you rock :)

<- Yet another misogynist female. Hahhhh.

[nexilen.livejournal.com]

Gaaaah ... My bosses are all wimmins. It's just fucking messy.

To make things worse they also make our Helpdesk solutions DB ... Their damn solutions are incoherent, badly formatted and extremely fucking confusing. No wonder our helpdesk sucks so much.

I wish that for once we had a fucking programmer for a knowledge manager - someone with mental clarity and a better sense of organization ...

[taleya.livejournal.com]

And you've just summed up in a nutshell why I loathe the majority of the human race :)

[wildheavn.livejournal.com]

Amen!

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

Oh man, could I steal that icon? That's classic.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

heheheee go for it :) It's one I made anyways

Real daleks don't use the stairs! Real daleks level the building!

[ximinez]

*nod* gotcha.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

If only I weren't married/in a relationship/gay/sworn off all things phallic/x miles away (where x is the miles you're willing to travel to get laid plus 50)

"For you, I'm setting X to ten thousand!"

"...I'm on the moon."

"Aw, come ON!"

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

Whenever I hear anything like those statements, I know it's a lie. Well meaning though it may be, the woman saying it is %99 lying her butt off. I've had a few women give me that 'if I didn't have a boyfriend' shit in high school, and when they broke up, all of a sudden they saw me as a friend or a brother. There are not words for my loathing of such cowardice.

I don't let my female friends get away with saying anything like that. They all know I'd be open if they want it (hell, I wouldn't be their friend if I didn't like their mind), so I haven't had to hear that shit in a long while.

As for the girls who ask for drinks. I take extremely sadistic pleasure in attempting to make them cry. I've very little respect for someone who's willing to throw away generations of womens lib for something as idiotic as alcohol.



Sorry.. extremely off topic, I guess. Just one of my big red buttons.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

I have no problem dropping these ass's back in the queue (iff they're lucky), though I'm just as likely to drop them off in some one elses's queue, preferably in another country. If I'm really annoyed I just put them on hold and take a break.