Network OS
I have been reading this forum for a while and I decided to share with you one of my favorite stories from my days at the help desk:
I was working a weekend shift, just me and one other guy playing video games, watching TV, and generally being bored. The phone rings, my coworker jumps for the phone, I check him out of the way and answer it myself eager to do something that may require thought. I was, of course, disappointed. The caller states that her computer is frozen, and my brain immediately switches back to auto pilot..
“What I would like you to do is hold the power button on the front of your tower for ten seconds until it turns off.”
“Umm, I don’t have a tower.”
“Sure you do, it might be under the desk, but it has to be close by since the video cable isn’t very long.”
At this point I hoped she would say something like, “Oh! There it is. I’m a fucking moron” I would of course agree with her, wish her a good day, and go back to watching Mad Max
But no, if that had happened, I wouldn’t be telling you this story. Would I?
She once again insists that she has no tower, she even asks her co-worker to confirm. Her co-worker is obviously just as dumb as her and agrees that there is indeed no tower.
Now here is the kicker, she actually told me that we are on a “network system” (yes the quotes are necessary) She than proceeded to ask me how long I worked with the organization. I told her a year, than I told her she would have to wait until Monday for her computer to be fixed because the desktop teams did not work weekends.
Stupid bitch.
I was working a weekend shift, just me and one other guy playing video games, watching TV, and generally being bored. The phone rings, my coworker jumps for the phone, I check him out of the way and answer it myself eager to do something that may require thought. I was, of course, disappointed. The caller states that her computer is frozen, and my brain immediately switches back to auto pilot..
“What I would like you to do is hold the power button on the front of your tower for ten seconds until it turns off.”
“Umm, I don’t have a tower.”
“Sure you do, it might be under the desk, but it has to be close by since the video cable isn’t very long.”
At this point I hoped she would say something like, “Oh! There it is. I’m a fucking moron” I would of course agree with her, wish her a good day, and go back to watching Mad Max
But no, if that had happened, I wouldn’t be telling you this story. Would I?
She once again insists that she has no tower, she even asks her co-worker to confirm. Her co-worker is obviously just as dumb as her and agrees that there is indeed no tower.
Now here is the kicker, she actually told me that we are on a “network system” (yes the quotes are necessary) She than proceeded to ask me how long I worked with the organization. I told her a year, than I told her she would have to wait until Monday for her computer to be fixed because the desktop teams did not work weekends.
Stupid bitch.
