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Your Favorite Support Anecdote
Most of us have had the unfortunate opportunity to have worked tech support at some point, whether it was for a paycheck or for a relative. The Register has offered up a vote for several of their favorite support stories but I'm sure there are many more out there to be had. My favorite horror story was while working a tech support call for a governmental employee, when asked to take her mouse and click on the "start" button all I could hear over the phone is what I later found out was the user banging her mouse against the monitor. What other horror stories have people seen from the trenches?
I remember this one time I got an IP ban here at Slashdot, so I called up my ISP's helpdesk to get a new IP address issued. The guy on the other end kept asking me all sorts of questions. "Have you checked the cables?" "When you click on My Network, does it show you all your NICs?" ad nauseum.
I yelled into the phone, "I just want a new IP address issued. I don't have time to answer all your idiotic questions." That apparently set him off because he kept blabbering on and on about not having to take my abuse. MY ABUSE?? Holy shit! This retard (I apologize to all actual retards for associating them with him) is working the easiest job in the world. Whose bright idea was it to make the stupidest computer geeks in charge of keeping customers happy? For chrissakes, promote them to management or something. Let someone who has a clue help the customers. Just get these morons off the goddamn phones.
Anyway, I got my new IP address after escalating it to his manager. And here I am! Yay!
Tech support is for idiots. If you worked tech support, you were an idiot supporting idiots.
I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
Bull. There's nothing that's impossible to do on Windows. Nor are you any good judge, since you seem adverse to learning newer technologies. I bet building a website on Asp.Net is much easier than one on PHP.
Gee, I can't imagine why you were banned. Next time you want a new IP just change your MAC and reboot, unless that's to stupid for you.
For a story all about tech support humour, there sure are a shitload of humourless cocksuckers commenting. The parent post was so obviously a joke that anybody who thought otherwise should simply commit suicide immediately. Fuck you and the other hundred self righteous donkey raping retards.