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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wycen" data-source="post: 1913543" data-attributes="member: 13732">Well I started a temp job for some extra cash for the holidays, so I don't have much new stuff, but when I did tech support in a network operations center, one of my favorites was the lady calling up because she wanted access to her ftp files, which unfortunately were gone, due to the company being bought out and the old system simply being ignored.  All customers should have been informed of this, but I'm sure that wasn't the case.Looking through the files on her unix shell account I found her weblink and some attached files.  She had a blank contract to be a slave.  After finding that I would have liked to have helped get her ftp files back.Then there was the regular caller who would travel alot and sometimes need me to read her email to her.Then the wanker who calls complaining that the mail servers are slow and he's "losing millions of dollars and I'm going to <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ing bust somebody's head open" by the delay (5 days once).  Yes, losing millioins using a DIAL UP ACCOUNT!Then we had the real wanker using a satelite company's dial up connection which was $8.95 a month for unlimited access and gave you randomized login names like <a href="mailto:n000a56@network56.com">n000a56@network56.com</a>.  He couldn't access his email.  That was because his inbox was filled with 300 megs of porn spam.Then there was the old guy.  When the new company bought the old, they changed the internet access options.  This old guy didn't want the new stuff, he was happy with the old.  He kept calling for about 2 weeks until finally during conversation he says, "I like my Apple 2e and I don't wanna to buy a new computer". This leads me to the poor product manager for the dial up migration for our customers to the new company.  She couldn't understand why people who were paying $21 a month for dial up, shell access and web space wouldn't want to "upgrade" to the $100 web space product.  Apparently she or whoever she worked for had never heard of Xoom.com, geocities, yahoo or any of the other places providing small but free web space.  Which leads me to my current job, doing office admin.  I'm basically the supervisor's bitch, doing whatever she needs, plus the goal of getting the filing setup for the new year plus phone receptioning.  Yesterday I had to update an Excel file for her.  She wanted to email the file to me, which would have been a trick because I don't have a company email and didn't want to give a personal, though I had already created a hotmail account just for these situations a year ago.However I remembered I had been given a floppy disc earlier so I dug it out and presented it when she said she was ready.  "Oh I don't know how to use that."  I contained my dumbfoundedness and simply leaned over and copied the file to the floppy drive and left.  This explained to me why anyone would still display one of those training certificates, FRAMED!, for learning basic Excel.Today she told me to update the FAX machine phone list and I asked if there was a file and she said no, despite seeing the list which had to have been printed in Word or Excel, thanks to the font color and size.</blockquote>

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