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    <config param="desc" value="Humor section - Tech Support"/>
    <config param="rcsdate" value="$Date: 2009-03-23 00:35:32 -0400 (Mon, 23 Mar 2009) $"/>
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        <title>Tech Support</title>
        <summary>Tech Support humor</summary>
        <keywords>Humor, tech support hummor</keywords>
    </head>
        <para> Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop." Customer:
            "Ok." Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?" Customer: "No." Tech Support: "Ok.
            Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?" Customer: "No." Tech Support: "Ok, sir.
            Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?" Customer: "Sure, you told me to
            write 'click' and I wrote 'click'." (At this point I had to put the caller on hold to
            tell the rest of the tech support staff what had happened. I couldn't, however, stop
            from giggling when I got back to the call.) Tech Support: "Ok, did you type 'click' with
            the keyboard?" Customer: "I've done something dumb, right?"</para>
        <para> Customer: "I received the software update you sent, but I am still getting
            the same error message." Tech Support: "Did you install the update?" Customer: "No. Oh,
            am I supposed to install it to get it to work?"</para>
        <para> Customer: "I'm having trouble installing Microsoft Word." Tech Support:
            "Tell me what you've done." Customer: "I typed 'A:SETUP'." Tech Support: "Ma'am, remove
            the disk and tell me what it says." Customer: "It says '[PC manufacturer] Restore and
            Recovery disk'." Tech Support: "Insert the MS Word setup disk." Customer: "What?" Tech
            Support: "Did you buy MS word?" Customer "No..."</para>
        <para> Tech Support: "Ok, in the bottom left hand side of the screen, can you see
            the 'OK' button displayed?" Customer: "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"</para>
        <para> Customer: "Uhh...I need help unpacking my new PC." Tech Support: "What
            exactly is the problem?" Customer: "I can't open the box." Tech Support: "Well, I'd
            remove the tape holding the box closed and go from there." Customer: "Uhhhh...ok, thanks...."</para>
        <para> Customer: "I'm having a problem installing your software. I've got a fairly
            old computer, and when I type 'INSTALL', all it says is 'Bad command or file name'."
            Tech Support: "Ok, check the directory of the A: drive-go to A:\ and type 'dir'."
            Customer: reads off a list of file names, including 'INSTALL.EXE'. Tech Support: "All
            right, the correct file is there. Type 'INSTALL' again." Customer: "Ok." (pause) "Still
            says 'Bad command or file name'." Tech Support: "Hmmm. The file's there in the correct
            place - it can't help but do something. Are you sure you're typing I-N-S-T-A-L-L and
            hitting the Enter key?" Customer: "Yes, let me try it again." (pause) "Nope, still 'Bad
            command or file name'." Tech Support: (now really confused) "Are you sure you're typing
            I-N-S-T-A-L-L and hitting the key that says 'Enter'?" Customer: "Well, yeah. Although my
            'N' key is stuck, so I'm using the 'M' key...does that matter?</para>
        <para> At our company we have asset numbers on the front of everything. They give
            the location, name, and everything else just by scanning the computer's asset barcode or
            using the number beneath the bars. Customer: "Hello. I can't get on the network." Tech
            Support: "Ok. Just read me your asset number so we can open an outage." Customer: "What
            is that?" Tech Support: "That little barcode on the front of your computer." Customer:
            "Ok. Big bar, little bar, big bar, big bar..."</para>
        <para> Customer: "I got this problem. You people sent me this install disk, and now
            my A: drive won't work." Tech Support: "Your A drive won't work?" Customer: "That's what
            I said. You sent me a bad disk, it got stuck in my drive, now it won't work at all."
            Tech Support: "Did it not install properly? What kind of error messages did you get?"
            Customer: "I didn't get any error message. The disk got stuck in the drive and wouldn't
            come out. So I got these pliers and tried to get it out. That didn't work either." Tech
            Support: "You did what sir?" Customer: "I got these pliers, and tried to get the disk
            out, but it wouldn't budge. I just ended up cracking the plastic stuff a bit." Tech
            Support: "I don't understand sir, did you push the eject button?" Customer: "No, so then
            I got a stick of butter and melted it and used a turkey baster and put the butter in the
            drive, around the disk, and that got it loose. Then I used the pliers and it came out
            fine. I can't believe you would send me a disk that was broken and defective." Tech
            Support: "Let me get this clear. You put melted butter in your A:drive and used pliers
            to pull the disk out?" At this point, I put the call on the speaker phone and motioned
            at the other techs to listen in. Tech Support: "Just so I am absolutely clear on this,
            can you repeat what you just said?" Customer: "I said I put butter in my A: drive to get
            your crappy disk out, then I had to use pliers to pull it out." Tech Support: "Did you
            push that little button that was sticking out when the disk was in the drive, you know,
            the thing called the disk eject button?" Silence. Tech Support: "Sir?" Customer: "Yes."
            Tech Support: "Sir, did you push the eject button?" Customer: "No, but you people are
            going to fix my computer, or I am going to sue you for breaking my computer?" Tech
            Support: "Let me get this straight. You are going to sue our company because you put the
            disk in the A: drive, didn't follow the instructions we sent you, didn't actually seek
            professional advice, didn't consult your user's manual on how to use your computer
            properly, instead proceeding to pour butter into the drive and physically rip the disk
            out?" Customer: "Ummmm." Tech Support: "Do you really think you stand a chance, since we
            do record every call and have it on tape?" Customer: (now rather humbled) "But you're
            supposed to help!" Tech Support: "I am sorry sir, but there is nothing we can do for
            you. Have a nice day."</para>
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