The sweet taste of revenge!
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Jack Coats <j...@coats.org> wrote: > So Sweeeeet. ... > > > From: > https://plus.google.com/+ChrisBlasko/posts/GzCuzTyUXNq > > Chris Blasko > Shared publicly - Aug 5, 2014 > #Mortgage > > Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer. Did I yell > and scream at them, you ask? Certainly not. Like a good IT > administrator I put my skills to use for their benefit. Here's how the > conversation went: > > Computer: "Press 9 to not be contacted in the future. Press 4 to speak > to someone about your mortgage issues" > <presses 4> > TM: "Hello, are you having problems paying your mortgage?" > Me: "Hi, this is the IT department. We intercepted your call as we > detected a problem with you phone and need to fix it." > TM: "Oh... ok, well what do we need to do?" > Me: "We're going to need to fix the settings by pressing 4-6-8 and * > at the same time" > TM: "Ok, nothing happened." > <alright, so he's not using a Polycom> > Me: "Are you using the new Polycom phones that we deployed?" > TM: "No, it's a Yealink" > Me: "Ok, I see. You haven't had the new Polycom phone deployed to your > desk yet. Let me check our technical documentations for the Yealink." > <did a quick Google search, "yealink phone factory reset"> > Me: "Alright, do you see an "OK" button on your phone?" > TM: "Yes I do" > Me: "Alright, you're going to press and hold that button for 10 seconds." > TM: "OK, pressing it now" > Me: "Perfect, let me know if you get a password request" > TM: "OK, nothing has popped up ye----" > <click> > > That's right. I made a telemarketer unwittingly factory reset his > phone which means he will be unable to make anymore calls until > someone is able to reconfigure his phone and that will take at least > an hour or longer if they can't do it right away! > > -- > Charles Gagnon > charlesg at unixrealm.com > > > > > -- > ><> ... Jack > > "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 > "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - > Henry J. Tillman > "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - > Albert Einstein > "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral > Grace Hopper, USN > "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - " > - http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 > "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin Terma > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
