On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:30:01PM -0600, Steve Wolfe wrote:
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>
> Back in the day when I did tech support, that sort of thing wasn't
> uncommon at all. We were all pretty good at doing things like carrying on
> conversations with other techs, playing hackysack, etc., while helping
> customers, unbeknownst to them. Every once in a while, we'd get a "noisy"
> mute button that would click, and if they asked what it was, we'd just tell
> them in was phone noise.
Our helpdeskers when they're just back from MacDonalds picking up food:
'let me look that up for you' *switch to mute* *scrunch scrunch gobble
scrunch scrunch slurp* *fix stuff* *switch mute off* 'sir? hi. blah blah'
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
