"CBIC" <> wrote in message
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> As some of you know, I gave my notice where I currently work. Today one of
> my soon to be former lusers wanders up to me and starts telling me about
> this problem she's having. Now she's not the sharpest knife in the drawer,
> but I'm bored so I listen to her go on and on, using the work "like" at
> least 435 times. I know exactly what her problem is by the time she's
> halfway through "like" explaining it to me. It seems to her that she's
> missing a bunch of information that she like entered into our system. Now
> our system is strange in the fact that there are several places you can
> enter the same information. So I ask her where she put this information
> and she goes on and on about how like she puts it in the same spot like
> everytime. By now I'm bored with her so I tell her to bring me some
> customer numbers so I can verify the problem. This is usually the best way
> to shut them up and get them to quit bothering me. Well, she shows up an
> hour later with a list of numbers. So I put the first one in and go to
> where she "always puts like this information." Nope, nothing there. I go
> to a different module and bingo, there it is. "Like how did that get
> there?" Obviously she entered in the sales order module and not the
> invoice module. So I tell her to take all these customer numbers and
> re-enter the data correctly. She gets p1ssed at me and throws a hissy fit,
> threatening to tell my manager and get me fired if I don't fix this for
> her. I start laughing and ask her if she knows that my last day is next
> Wednesday. "So you won't like help me then?" I told her I'd be glad to
> help her but I won't get to it until next Friday. I wonder how long it
> will be until she catches on to that one.
I've probably told this story before, but what da hale.
Twenty one years ago (yeah, I'm old) I was working my last week at my first
IT job, a company called XtraSoft in Sunnyvale, CA. We marketed a
Point-of-sale system in DOS (originally in CP/M). The programmers would
share the tech support, and on that particular day (my turn) I got a call
from a men's clothing retailer who was trying to backup his inventory files
(on 5.25" floppy - state of the art at the time) but it was telling him the
diskettes were full. I explained that the program needed a set of blank
floppy diskettes for the backup, and he said he only had the one set. So I
said no problem, we just need to erase the contents of the diskettes and
then you'll be able to backup with no problem. "Type Format A: and press
Enter," I said. "Okay, I'll do that, I have to go now because I have
customers!" and he hung up without waiting for a response.
The next day he called and asked to talk to the manager. Apparently all of
his data on his computer was wiped-out. He said he did exactly what I'd
told him to do. He typed FORMAT and a colon. Not "A" and a colon, a colon.
After I explained to my supervisors (the company owners) what had happened,
I told them that they should call him back and tell him that the employee in
question had been fired. They liked that idea but they didn't do it.
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