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Sunday, April 09, 2006 -----

Weekend Coffee

Don't you just love the weekends? I know I do. Even my coffee tastes better on the weekends! I was finally finishing unpacking from moving (2 years later one box left!).

And I found a coffee mug I used to use in my old gig as a systems admin for huge LAN/WAN computer network. Along with keeping that baby running smooooothly, I had to help people who had problems and it made me remember this one really funny incident.

This brand new branch manager who happened to be a the daughter of someone with a lotta stroke in the company called me screaming she couldn't log into her network and she had a payroll to process.

I calmed her down and had her tell me what the problem was, well the network wouldn't connect. I had her check her cables, all connected and good, then I had her attempt to log into her network, nothing happening she told me.

I went through all the other usual trouble shooting methods and she's just getting more and more frustrated with lots of heavy over exaggerated sighs and so after 20 minutes of going through everything I could think of and the answer every time was "Nothing is happening" and she wouldn't elaborate any further when I pressed her details. All I got was a loud, long sigh.

I said "Well I'll be right out there, I have one stop to make on my way there and then I'll be right out to troubleshoot your network".

She gave one of her over-exaggerated :::::::;sighs:::::::::: and said Okay but call me on my cell phone BECAUSE ALL OF OUR POWER IS OUT!

:::::::insert the sounds of screeching brakes here:::::::::

I explained that computers and networks need silly things like electricity to run and that pretty much fixed her problem.

I'm so happy I'm a full-time artist now.....I don't miss Tech Support one bit!
But I'm happy I found my old favorite coffee mug! Off to fill that baby up with some Espresso!


PS - get a zbean account for yourself and get cool coffee discounts just for using that email address when you order. Is it kept private? You bet!

::  Posted by: 3am Art  at 9:26 AM
  

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