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Orwellian Tech Support

Posted by michael on from the tps-reports dept.

alteran writes "Here's a very well-written piece on what goes on inside a tech-support call center. Makes working for Initech seem good. Sorry about the forced ad-viewing - it only last about 10 seconds, and the article is worth it."

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  1. Re:Violation of copyright laws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And your justification for gross violation of copyright laws is what exactly?

    You must live in the Corporate States of America or one of its Partners. Maybe you aren't bombing enough violators lately?

  2. Re:Violation of copyright laws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Then again, maybe it's worth it for quality writing. If I wanted to read shit, I'd visit your weblog - or read any of your other posts, ever again.

  3. Re:Today only, free access courtesy of Slashdot by the+arbiter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Only here only Slashdot, news for NERDS who don't know anything about sports. It's "bunt", not "punt". Fuck.

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    Boycott everything - they're all trying to fuck you one way or another
  4. Re:Today only, free access courtesy of Slashdot by mcmonkey · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    In a Heller-esque world, you're only damned so far as you follow the written rules -- if you trump those and follow the ACTUAL rules, you can succeed quite well. Loni is a Milo Minderbinder.

    How does a comment like that NOT get modded up? It's insightful, informative, and interesting.

    Oh...it follows the rules. What he should have said is, if those lusers would stop using M$ and instead got linux help from HOW-TOs, companies would stop shipping jobs over-seas. And BSD is dead.