I’ve deleted the Internet
Heh. At Tel Con 8, one ISP Manager spoke about the challenges of dealing with customers, and gave the example of the customer(s) who rang up in a panic because he had deleted the Internet.
Actually he had just deleted the icon For Internet Explorer!
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June 26th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Reminds of the (possibly apocryphal) story about the tech support employee who answered a caller, who could not find the cursor. First, they checked that everything was switched on, etc.
SUPPORT: “Is it switched on at the wall?”
CALLER: “I can’t tell. It’s too dark.”
S: “well, switch on the light!”
C: “I can’t.”
S: “Why not?”
C: “There’s a blackout!”
S: “Ah, well. You need to take it all apart and pack it all up.”
C: “It’s that serious?”
S: “Oh, yes. You need to pack it all up and take it back to the store where you purchased your system.”
C: “Oh, dear! What do I tell them?”
S: “You tell them that you are too f**king stupid to own a computer!”
The employee was fired, but was reinstated after a wrongful dismissal hearing. (I actually have a lot of sympathy for the support person.)
June 26th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Actually he had just deleted the icon For Internet Explorer!
Trying to delete Internet Explorer? I wouldn’t call this guy stupid…
June 26th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I heard of an IT support guy going to the aid of the PE teacher who was having problems and nothing was happening after he was told to “right click” The IT guy turned up to find a piece of paper beside the computer with the word “click” written on it.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
My favourite is “I’ve broken Microsoft”
Heh.
June 26th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
And then there was the helicopter tour out of Seattle that encountered low fog on their return. The pilot was unsure exactly where the airport was located, but saw an office building rising above the fog.
The helicopter hovered outside one of the windows while one of the passengers hastily scrawled a note: “Where are we?”
The people inside hastily scrawled a reply:
“You are in a helicopter.”
The pilot nodded and went straight to their desired destination. The amazed passengers said: “But how did you know where we were?”
“Oh well”, said the pilot. “It had to be the Microsoft building – the answer was totally accurate but totally useless.”
June 26th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
At Google NOTHING gets deleted
June 26th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
“At Google NOTHING gets deleted”
Cept a few Chinese Bloggers Selma.
Don’t forget the Bloggers.
June 26th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Was it Win95 (I think it was) that mentioned in the help files somewhere that you needed to remember to “turn the Internet off” (they meant hang up the modem)
oooooohhhhhhh the power
June 26th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Imagine the poor sod’s panic by the time the damn Telco finally put a human on the end of the automatic phone service, he must’ve thought he had brought down the earth in the hour/s it took the ‘help’ desk / ‘service’ centre of an ISP to answer the phone.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Imagine the poor sod’s panic by the time the damn Telco finally put a human on the end of the automatic phone service, he must’ve thought he had brought down the earth in the hour/s it took the ‘help’ desk / ‘service’ centre of an ISP to answer the phone.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Imagine the poor sod’s panic by the time the damn Telco finally put a human on the end of the automatic phone service, he must’ve thought he had brought down the earth in the time it took the ‘help’ desk / ‘service’ centre of an ISP to answer the phone.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Imagine the poor sod’s panic by the time the damn Telco finally put a human on the end of the automatic phone service, he must’ve thought he had brought down the earth in the time it took the ‘help’ desk / ‘service’ centre of an ISP to answer the phone.
June 27th, 2007 at 4:44 am
those chinese bloggers are now working???in the $2 shop, toothpaste factory, situated in selmas chinese sister city
June 27th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Muad – no those Bloggers are serving long jail terms after Google gave up identifying information to the Chinese authorities.
‘Do no Evil’ isn’t such a good catch cry for them anymore.