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From: "Rad" <rad@cyberdude.com>
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Subject: Re: [Humour]The trials of Tech Support
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:24:05 -0000
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I've heard this joke before, twice infact, it may have happened once but I
can't belive every support department experiences this!?! I mean the damn
drives have "compact disc" written on them for god sake :)
Not to mention a drive light, ear phone sockets, volume control, etc........

Rad.
rad@cyberdude.com
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~radpsx

Tones wrote in message <77tfaf$hoo9@chuka.playstation.co.uk>...
>Hehehehehehe!!
>
>That's quite a good one!
>
>Almost beats my mate's problem he had...
>
>He used to work on a support line for a company which had just published
his
>program - he was on hand so he could offer users expert advice on a system
>which he had written.
>
>Anyway, one user called up who was having a problem with the installation
>procedure.
>
>User:"I'm having trouble getting my software to work."
>Mate:"Right, well what exactly is the problem...."
>User:"I don't know where to put this CD in..."
>Mate:"Sorry ?  What do you mean you don't know where to put it in?"
>User:"I can't see a slot for it to go into on the PC!"
>Mate:"Oh, well you just find the button below the CD drive, and a tray will
>come out to collect the CD.  Then you just put in the CD, press the button,
>and do what the computer tells you to."
>
>User: "What CD player?"
>Mate:"You mean you don't have a CD drive!  What HAVE you got."
>User:"Um, a floppy disc drive, a power switch and a coffee holder..."
>Mate:"A coffee holder?"
>User:"Yeah, it works like the CD thing you were on about.  I press a
button,
>the tray comes out and I put my Coffee cup on there"
>
>Sad, but true!
>
>Cheers all,
>
>Tones 8)
>PS: Got my new PC!! Anyone with Half-life I'll see you on the 'net.  I'm
>called Belcanto if you see me!!
>