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Star Ranger4
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"Oddly Enough..."
 
   LAST EDITED ON Feb-13-02 AT 11:42 PM (EST)

Well, its like this, I found the following link:

Reuters news story

Personally, I think that instead of having to appologize, this should become standard business pracitce. It certainly would make life in Tech Support SOOO much easier. Unless the person on the receiving end is the infamous BFOH. ^_^

{Edited to fix link markups. D'oh!}

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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: Oddly Enough... donnerjackadmin Feb-13-02 1
     RE: Oddly Enough... Star Ranger4 Feb-14-02 2
         RE: Oddly Enough... donnerjackadmin Feb-14-02 3
  RE: Oddly Enough... Laudre Feb-14-02 4
     RE: Oddly Enough... Kokuten Feb-14-02 5
         RE: Oddly Enough... Astynax Feb-14-02 6
             RE: Oddly Enough... Kokuten Feb-14-02 7
                 RE: Oddly Enough... Wedge Feb-14-02 8
                     RE: Oddly Enough... Laudre Feb-14-02 10
                 RE: Oddly Enough... Nathan Feb-14-02 9

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donnerjackadmin
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 Feb-13-02, 11:44 PM (EDT)
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1. "RE: Oddly Enough..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Feb-13-02 AT 11:46 PM (EST)

LAST EDITED ON Feb-13-02 AT 11:45 PM (EST)

>Well, its like this, I found the following link:
For some reason your link didn't work, this is the raw URL for those interested:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020213/od_nm/telephone_dc_1&cid=573

>
>Personally, I think that instead of having to appologize, this should
>become standard business pracitce. It certainly would make life in
>Tech Support SOOO much easier. Unless the person on the receiving end
>is the infamous BFOH. ^_^

Er, I'm assuming you mean the BOFH. The Bastard archives can be found here: http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html
For the amusement and inspiration of any tech support people in the audience.


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Star Ranger4
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2. "RE: Oddly Enough..."
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   Wierd that it didn't work. As to the other, my bad. Now I get to sit and wonder what ELSE is going to start falling apart; clearly my memory is already shot. ^_^

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donnerjackadmin
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 Feb-14-02, 01:01 AM (EDT)
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3. "RE: Oddly Enough..."
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   >Wierd that it didn't work. As to the other, my bad. Now I get to sit
>and wonder what ELSE is going to start falling apart;
>clearly my memory is already shot. ^_^
It actually seemed to work after I'd already posted my reply, which is very strange. Mozilla still has some bugs that need to be worked out I guess. For the other, I'd just been rereading the BOFH archives, so it was on my mind. <g> Getting inspiration for when I go back to admining full time.


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Laudre
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 Feb-14-02, 01:33 AM (EDT)
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4. "RE: Oddly Enough..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Feb-14-02 AT 01:34 AM (EST)

>Personally, I think that instead of having to appologize, this should
>become standard business pracitce. It certainly would make life in
>Tech Support SOOO much easier.

And it should go both ways. When I was working in retail (and it's starting to look like I will again soon -- god, I'm praying I get the software instructor job instead), there were times I wouldn't have minded handing the customer $5 and telling them exactly what I think.

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5. "RE: Oddly Enough..."
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   >>Personally, I think that instead of having to appologize, this should
>>become standard business pracitce. It certainly would make life in
>>Tech Support SOOO much easier.
>
>And it should go both ways. When I was working in retail (and it's
>starting to look like I will again soon -- god, I'm praying I get the
>software instructor job instead), there were times I wouldn't have
>minded handing the customer $5 and telling them exactly what I think.

I got to spend an evening with the police thanks to one particular customer.. Guy threatens to come down and shotgun me, and my officemates, and my supervisor twice..

I don't get very happy..

So we informs him in no uncertain terms that

a) he's lost his account.

b) he's welcome to come down to the office.

c) he'll never have internet access in Alaska again

then I called the cops, kicked back, and waited.
the cops showed up rather swiftly, we explained the situation, and me and one of the officers sat outside smoking while we waited for him to show up.. he never did.

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6. "RE: Oddly Enough..."
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>I got to spend an evening with the police thanks to one particular
>customer.. Guy threatens to come down and shotgun me, and my
>officemates, and my supervisor twice..
>

err, parse error: he threatened twice to shoot all of you, or he threatened to shoot your supervisor twice for good measure?

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Kokuten
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 Feb-14-02, 08:27 PM (EDT)
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7. "RE: Oddly Enough..."
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   >
>>I got to spend an evening with the police thanks to one particular
>>customer.. Guy threatens to come down and shotgun me, and my
>>officemates, and my supervisor twice..
>>
>
>err, parse error: he threatened twice to shoot all of you, or he
>threatened to shoot your supervisor twice for good measure?

Broken pipe Brain -> Keyboard

Disregard word "twice"

(Y)es/(N)o/(F)nord?
_

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Wedge
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 Feb-14-02, 08:34 PM (EDT)
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8. "RE: Oddly Enough..."
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   >Broken pipe Brain -> Keyboard
>
>Disregard word "twice"
>
>(Y)es/(N)o/(F)nord?
>_

That's quite possibly the first time I've ever seen the blink tag used where it wasn't totally annoying.

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Laudre
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 Feb-14-02, 08:40 PM (EDT)
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10. "RE: Oddly Enough..."
In response to message #8
 
   >>Broken pipe Brain -> Keyboard
>>
>>Disregard word "twice"
>>
>>(Y)es/(N)o/(F)nord?
>>_
>
>That's quite possibly the first time I've ever seen the blink tag used
>where it wasn't totally annoying.

Hey, there is a blink tag there.

(Mozilla doesn't recognize it. I'm amazed any browser still does.)

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Nathan
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9. "RE: Oddly Enough..."
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   >(Y)es/(N)o/(F)nord?
>_

Something I wrote a while ago, in an e-mail entitle "Nathan Rambles"


Hey, Nathan, rock climbing.

Rock climbing, nathan.

Yo Nate! Rock climbing.

RoCK CLiMBiNG, NaTHaN.

If YOU gO rOck clImbIng, thEn dEAth AwAIts YOU All, wIth nAstY bIg pOIntY
tEEth!

We're sorry b
ut we're currently e
xperieNc inG TechNICaL DifFi

cUltIes PleA
sEsDR tr
EsasDfV bNbg#######
###########
### ###
#

System Crash
Restart: crashed
Abort, Retry, F$@k it?
N:\GMCA>f

And that's just the last third of it (the first two had content, and are thus not appropriate to this forum).

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter, TGHEotL, RCWaL #232.

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