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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno writes:
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> Thanks Dave.
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> I was going to have a lot of fun, earning all about your craft, and the
> ways in which you deal with fools. -- but you pointed me to a funny Gord
> page.
The Gord is good. The Gord knows how to handle the foolish and the unwise.
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> i don't think i would last very long at your job. not that I could not
> solve those tech "problems"
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> more like-- I'd just lose it.
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> What do you mean you NEVER PLUG In THE PHONE!!!
Eh, they pay me well. I shut up and never say, "Oh you foolish beings--why
do you task me so!" It makes a good 'headspace' for dealing with other
avenues of my life, such as o.t-d ;)
The one I got last week was one of my own in the IS dept was having
difficulty walking thru a user installing a printer. Those are the ones
where I really want to lose it--someone in the IS dept can't walk someone
thru how to install an HP4 on LPT1. "Wait," I say, "Don't you just plug it
in and turn it on?"
That one drove me crazy 'cause I'm sitting here at my desk, listening to the
conversation one cubicle away, for like an hour and a half... "Click here...
click there... do this, do that...."
I had to drive to Barrie just to undo all the mess that was done. Then I
plugged in the printer and, oh wait! Windows 2000 just detected an HP4! Done.
35 cents a kilometer and a free lunch are the only things that made me happy
that day.
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> "..how the hell can you make executive and not be smart enough to plug
> in the phone. what did you want me to do? use my special tech psych
> powers and tell you that a phone jack is provided in the base of the
> lamp??"
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> you must have the patients of a saint.
Nope, just knowing that at 5:01 I get in my POC pickup, drive home, and sit
my heinie amongst 500k+ of little pieces of ABS keeps me sane and (mostly)
rational.
Dave K
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> Chris
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> Why do solar calculators have an off button?
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| (...) Dave, dave, dave! (shakes head) what have you done to me. after spending a LOT of time reading up on this gord guy, I have felt a rekindling of my disdain for stupid humans. an there are a LOT of them. Talk about coincidence. after reading (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| Thanks Dave. I was going to have a lot of fun, earning all about your craft, and the ways in which you deal with fools. -- but you pointed me to a funny Gord page. i don't think i would last very long at your job. not that I could not solve those (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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