My job sometimes seems entirely pointless
I have had to send an engineer from Birmingham, West Mids to Redruth in Cornwall today for a faulty printer at a certain supermarket. Bear in mind that the site have already been asked basic questions and made to check leads before an engineer is despatched.

Here is what I gave their helpdesk as a closure:

Printer found to be unplugged from wall outlet. Plugged back in, and now working 100%. All working on departure.

Brilliant.
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:42, 23 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

oh god
that's shocking. *giggles*
:)
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:44, Reply)

Another fine days work where a difference is made.
Redruth, it's not red, and it's not called ruth...
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:45, Reply)

It's a nice day in cornwall though
so I vote he spends the rest of the day hanging out at the beach.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:45, Reply)

Ha yes.
It does have its upsides, Cornwall is a nice place and I have done that run many a time. Thing is though most people go there for a week and spend the day before leaving dreading the drive home cause its a grueller. 800 miles in one day? There is no way I can relax on the beach....:P
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:48, Reply)

It's never a nice day in Redruth.
Baby-eating country.
( thealternativefact, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:50, Reply)

the only thing worse than the waste and inefficiency
of the above is the lack of accountability that allows such a situation to occur in the first place.

"OK, you're allowed to call out an engineer but if it's something you should have been able to fix yourself, the electrodes go on your nuts. Agreed?"

"Erm... let me just go and check it's plugged in."

"There's a good chap."
( djtrialprice, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:52, Reply)

woss this about
baby eating?!
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:52, Reply)

Redruth
is a fucking awful place. Don't go there, ever.

Doesn't surprise me that they had that problem and couldn't figure it out for themselves even with guidance over the phone.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:53, Reply)

Even Cornish people take piss out of the inhabitants of Redruth and Camborne.
They can look like extras from The Living Dead.
( thealternativefact, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:54, Reply)

I remember seeing signs for it
but I was staying in St Ives at the time, so didn't feel the need to venture out that way.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:55, Reply)

Very wise, Becky-With-The-Letters
St Ives, yes. Mongville, no.
( thealternativefact, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:58, Reply)

Well it was actually a beach side place called lelant
and the local pub was called the badger inn...but hey
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:01, Reply)

Cambourne = Crimebourne
From what I was told by a mate of mine who used to work for the Police (but not actually a copper) after Cambourne was knocked up all the dodgy families in Cambridge were offered new houses out there by the council.
( djtrialprice, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:03, Reply)

St Ives and immediate vicinity is very nice
coastal places, mostly nice.

Inland, not so good. Apart from Truro, which is acceptable.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:05, Reply)

Most People I've encountered
In Cornwall appear to be either from Scotland, or Teh Midlands.....

The worstest place Ive seen for sheer butt ugliness has got to be Boston and Sleaford. Fuck me they were bad. Never even saw a ten pinter!!
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:07, Reply)

Oh Lelant - they used to have a model village place there.
Vipros, yes the coast is best, but there are lots of beautiful and interesting places inland.
Fortunately, emmets don't tend to know where they are :)
( thealternativefact, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:10, Reply)

I don't know whether this is the right thing to suggest,
but at least it demonstrates that you're not alone in your suffering, never-right:

www.b3ta.com/questions/clientsarestupid/
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:15, Reply)

God I wish I'd been a b3tan then
I belong to a facemong group where vets and nurses from around the world berate their clients for their innate stupidity.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:17, Reply)

That's proper vintage QotW, that is
There are usernames on there I've never seen before...makes you wonder what happened to half of them.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:18, Reply)

I got my account so I could post on 'Dad Jokes'.
I'd lurked before then - I must say, I do miss the early days of QOTW a bit...
( thealternativefact, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:20, Reply)

Were they better questions back then?
Or did people just have funnier stories?

Or both?
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:21, Reply)

Hmmm...
some of the questions were still a bit rubbish, but I think that there were fewer people just writing anything they could think of in order to come up with some sort of answer.
I'm not saying it's not so good now - it's just different.
( thealternativefact, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:23, Reply)

The questions for the last few months have been rubbish
so people haven't had as good answers to them. Not surprising really.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:31, Reply)