Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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SpeakersI used to work as a Java programmer for a subsidiary of IBM in Indianapolis. We wrote software to manage large corporate networks - servers, PCs, printers, what have you.
One day my phone rang, and the caller ID showed an area code of 514 (which I happened to know is the area code for Montreal). The guy said (in the thickest French accent I've ever heard, and yes I've been to France and Quebec several times each) that his speakers weren't working. I was confused, since our software had nothing to do with multimedia, and I wasn't a tech support employee. I asked if he meant that his speakers had stopped working when he installed our software, and he said yes. I asked how he got my phone number, and he replied that it was printed in his manual. Oh, no, I thought - some software manual has accidentally been printed with my phone number, and I'm going to get tons of these calls!
To cut to the end, he didn't have our software at all. The manual he was referring to was the manual for the speakers. They were manufactured by a company called Klipsch, which is headquartered in my town, and their phone number is 1-800-KLIPSCH and by coincidence my phone number was 1-317-KLIPSH (317 being the area code for my town).
You probably had to be one of the people crowded around my desk listening to this conversation on speakerphone to find it funny, but it took about 20 minutes and had several of us with tears streaming down our faces.
Click "I like this" just because I'm not making it up, and you haven't heard it before.
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 19:27, Reply)
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