The air conditioning in the main server room has broken down
so the network is down. Today I have been asked "When will it be back up" I have responded "I really couldn't even guess, we have to wait for the engineer and we have no idea when he will arrive and no idea how long it will take to fix and then no idea how long it will take to bring up the servers" they have nearly all responded with "So how long do you think? An hour?" We now have a game going on that if we have to repeat the line "We really don't know how long" more than five times we have to say "oh about 20 minutes" and see what their reaction is. Due to the stupidity of the people here I have already told three people that the network will be back up in 20 minutes.
( Peej, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 15:56, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I always found a resounding "Pfft. I dunno."
Accompanied by a shrug of the shoulders and a totally mongy look got rid of them. For 20 minutes. Coincidence or what?
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:01, Reply)

I hate that
Our exchange server went down the other day, it's looked after by a different department who had to call in both BT and IBM to get it fixed, explaining this down the phone along with "when they tell us we'll know" and "you'll probably be the first to know since your mail will start working again" with the frequent "we don't know how long it'll take" were almost always met with "but how long roughly?"

I don't fucking know, I'm not omniscient.
( Kroney, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:21, Reply)