Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 13, 2020

I think the big guy with the tech will provide the support. IE he’s going to crack the whip

Think about it. 300 slaves all chained to their benches. They eat and drink and they can’t leave.

I think his hardware may impact your software.

Someone’s about to get rebooted.

“Re-image” prescribed the techie to the ’tooner.

Always blame the user. If that doesn’t work, blame the hardware.

“Problem at the distant end”, probably the most commonly used RFO (Reason For Outage) by Tech Controllers in the Military. (Tech Controllers were a jack of all trades military specialty that controlled, maintained, repaired and restored the DOD’s long-haul communications network.)

Recording 1: “Thank you for calling tech support. We care about your call. Our current hold time is 45 minutes.” (90 minutes later:)

Recording 2: “First unplug your device, wait 10 minutes, and plug it back in. If that doesn’t fix your problem, call us back.” (Repeat Recording 1.)

Little man talking to Big man with whip. Probably not too smart.

Fish food……………..

I hate calling tech support at work. 90% of the time I know more that they do which does not do me any good. Or I get the “We have never had a call about this before.” And the one that really gets me mad is “When you figure out the problem would you call me back and tell me what you found?”Some times I think I am on the wrong end of the phone when talking to tech support.

That overseer has a problem solver at the end of his arm.

The problem is he’s been installed backwards so that bench’s oar is malfunctioning.

Most of the time the rowers were also warriors, because the ships were warships and had limited capacity for non-essential people.

Reboot the rower.

If you are having a problem with your internet connection, try our online site.

Never underestimate the power of having trouble on ‘your end’. It can be a resume generating event.

I remember the days of dial-up modems when you connected to your service provider through the telephone company and the service provider connected you to the internet.

So the service provider blamed the phone company and the phone company blamed the service provider.

For some reason my phone line was never good enough to connect at 9600 baud. However, it worked just great with DSL (a short-lived experiment).

Also it all depended on whom you talked to when you called the service provider. Each technician had his own “secret” configuration for the modem.

He’s going to take that answer about as well as my customer’s do. And he’s in person with a whip.

Have you tried unplugging him and plugging him back in?

I think that one is called a PEBOAC. Problem Exists Between Oar And Chair. ;-)

You’re about to be outsourced to the Indian Ocean.

In overseas tech support facilities, people are crammed together, working long hours with few breaks. Replace oars with keyboards and you get the idea.

Seems a hard wire is in order.

Tim Conway to a newly arriving chained rower, and his new benchmate: “Hi. I’m a leper.”

A-hem. Business 101, Day 1: Management NEVER wants to hear that they’re the problem. Class dismissed.

“Worst cruise ever..”