techrecovery | Internet is LIIIIIIIFE!

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customers_suck

I work in an internet cafe. Our primary ISP is a cable provider, but we have a dsl line as backup and a few of the computers stay on that router all the time. So who knows what just happened... but the router for the dsl magically disabled itself.... wheee.

Immedietly all the people on that router leap to their feet and rush my desk to let me know "The Internet is Broken!"... Fine, as soon as I realize it's not a single computer's problem, but everyone on the router I just have to enable the router and make sure the settings are ok, but those 45 seconds are an eternity for some people I suppose.

One guy was literally running in circles, yelling "oh shit oh shit oh SHIIIIT!"

I'm sorry, but I just had to laugh. Out loud. To his face.

(Of course, this was just after some idiot came in, unable comprehend the instructions "sit at a computer. I will start the timer and you can go ahead. *A* computer. Pick one computer, and sit down at it. No, leaning on the armchair in the center of the room is not sitting at a computer. Sit in a stool at a computer." and then got mighty bitchy I wasn't making her americano already while i was in the middle of a relay call with a deaf customer who was right pissed off that we made her pay for her computer usage AND tax on her printouts, when all she wanted was printouts. *rolling eyes* I love Mondays. And ooo... look. Impatient Woman is done, and this plastic doesn't work, and the second is also declined, so before we try the third we have to insist MY machine isn't working... Sigh.)