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Orwellian Tech Support
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."
first post!
hehehe
piss
I didn't see any forced ad viewing?
Maybe that has something to do with me using a well configured Firefox...
Fuck that!!! Don't support those faggots!!!
But it's not a perfect world, it's tech support, and instead of taking it up the butt, Ken sucking some cock. Someone has gotten him a cake.
It's a troll repost, idiot mods.
thanks, i couldn't get to the article using w3m
My brain, my body, my stomach, my eyes, and my ears were under severe attacks this past day and night by Henry( Hank) Rumbarger( name called out from the high-tech machine), an employee of KBR (Kellogg, Brown & Root), a subsidiary of Halliburton. Hank Rumbarger,I did not renew my Professional Engineer license for the year of 2004 --the license which I believe that David M. Austgen, a project manager of The M. W. Kellogg Company helped me a lot to obtain that in 1991 -- and I have told you that I do not want to work for you,, so please end this kind of attacks or let me know that you were not the person who controlled the high-tech machine. Please read the following five letters, investigate the case, and/or response. Thank you. Letter 1: Charlie Wang [ADDRESS DELETED] December 16, 2003 To Whom it may concern: The high-tech machine in my letter is a very general term, meaning a very complicated device which may combine different functions of machines, such as computer, satellites or radio stations, and some mechanical and electrical systems. The pain I endured most is my brain, my skin, my eyes, my ears. my throat, and my body. My short memory is very bad because my brain has been constant under attacks no matter when I read, when I played tennis and computer games, when I watched TV, and when I was sleeping. the most frustrating thing is, when I was reading, I was constantly disturbed by voices and images, which, I speculate, can be transmitted through satellite, radio station, and/or brain wave. My skin felt very sharp pain as cut by a knife when it was under attacks. My eyes were under severe attacks while I was playing computer games, which can cause very temporarily blurred vision and/or tears. My ears will fell loud ring sounds and/or voices when they were under attacks, and it could happen any time, especially at night while I was sleeping. There are more regarding how I felt about the pain I suffered through the brain, throat, and my body, and I will tell more details if I go to the courts. Now, you know how dangerous this high-tech machine is. I tried my best to tolerate it to keep it as a secret and not to terrifying people, but whoever using that machine has no intention to stop but increasing it's power to damage my body. We all have responsibility to stop the person (persons) to abuse this high-tech machine, not just for myself, but also for the children and for this country. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Charlie Wang, P.E. Letter 2: Charlie C. Wang, P.E. [ADDRESS AND PHONE DELETED] January 19, 2003 To whom it may concern: I would like to tell you something which I have kept in my mind for a long time. How long is it? It is about five months. You probably think it is not long. All I can say is that it is all relative. If you live happy, five months is really too short and too fast. If you suffer unpleasant attacks on your brain, ears, eyes, mouth, fingers, heart, stomach, liver, and feet for that period of time, you know time just passed so so slow. You must ask why I kept it in my mind for so long. I only can say there are so many reasons. but once I tell you that those attacks were done by a very high intelligent machine (or machines), you can understand how complex this issue is. I was contract pipe stress engineer for Fluor Daniel from January, 2002 to May, 2002. I believed I performed my job very well, but I got laid off anyway. In July, this high tech. machine started to approach me at night and day. I could not fall asleep for the first week, because it attacked my brain or my ears all the time. I could hear different voices, but most important of all, I heard the names, Hank(Henry) Rumbarger and M. W. Kellogg. Henry Rumbarger was my supervisor while I was working as a permanent pipe stress engineer from 1989 to 1991 at M.W.Kellogg. After the first week of attacks, I slept better, but the attacks on my brain, ears, eyes, heart, stomach, and liver continued. In a few days, the attacks were so severe, I had to walk outside on side walks around and around in my subdivision, Williams
hey mods, might wanna take a look at the near end. not exactly the same aritcle.
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Because you're the troll, and hopefully the mods realize it.
If I got a call on the line that indicated it was from Ayanami Rei, I'd give her the best damn service available.
Because, you know, if I didn't, she might come step on me with EVA-00. And that would suck.
Brazil has decided you're cute.
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International Herald Tribune - 55 minutes ago
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Slovenia For anyone who ever spent time in the old Soviet Union, the
recent statement by 60 of the top scientists in the United States had
an eerie ring of deja vu. The accusatory statement, which included 20
Nobel laureates among its
Concerned Scientists Chemical & Engineering News
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consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... genuine support available 24/7/365, additional 'charge' included.
Two words: national security. More precisely, the security of the essential national digital infrastructure.
The net will become completely regulated, so get prepared to get your internet license and unique ID and say your anonymity goodbye.
You heard it here first.
Q: How many protestors does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Protestors can't change anything.
I've heard you can buy a kidney in India.
Mod me +5 insightful.
Fuck off! Who gives two rats asses about who owns the words on a screen??? I enjoyed the article and would not have read it otherwise... I am fucking GLAD that someone had balls enough to post it. Information wants to be free! Everyone is a hypocrite anyways.. GPL this, Creative Commons that.. but I bet if you looked real hard, you would find a shitload of downloaded mp3s, movies or porn. Hey, this is slashdot.. porn for sure!
Also specifically used to refer to a client of a prostitute.
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The ad wouldn't load for me at all. Don't know why.
I was grateful someone posted the story here.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
is that you??
I moved apartments a few years ago. I wanted the DSL to move with me. It should not have been a big deal, nor required any change other than moving wires within my building. The telco, on the other hand, thought differently. It took them months to tell me that they could not get the circuit hooked up. They would tell me it was in the queue, or techs were working on it, or all sorts of other BS. In the end I think there was a bug in thier database, and since they never formally disconected the 'previous' service, they could not connect the 'new' service. In the end I just cancelled the service and found went to another provider. They made me wait a month to fully disconect, but i got it done. The sad thing is that if the techs were just honest and admitted that they computers were screwed up, we would have saved 3 months and i would have let them keep me as a customer.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
Man, I hate that. It's stupid, because you could *legitimately* do that karma-whoring by just saying "some wise words from xxxxxx:", and throwing in a thought or two of their own.
Anyway, I modded down the offending post above, plus some of scumbucket's other posts (no plagiarism that I could see, but I dinged him on a few offtopic posts).
For some reason I've been getting mod points almost constantly, so I've been hunting down the plagiarists and punishing them.
You are a big man.
Crowing about how you are 'hunting down' plagiarists and 'punishing them' with your mod points. This is a noble pursuit, but why are you posting anomymously?
Coward.
> You mean soccer?
No, he does not. Duh.
I'm paying Bob for fast access, how dare Bill charge me for his content! Doesn't Bill know that Bob has the money and should just GIVE me whatever I want from his website?