Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Steve Dunn" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: [Humour]The trials of Tech Support Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:11:53 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 63 Message-ID: <781lpa$hoo17@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <77o193$lbv@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk> <77tfaf$hoo9@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <77v5ph$hoo11@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.4.27.1 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0810.800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 Thought the green light indicated it was keeping you coffee warm? =) Steve Rad wrote in message news:77v5ph$hoo11@chuka.playstation.co.uk... > >I've heard this joke before, twice infact, it may have happened once but I >can't belive every support department experiences this!?! I mean the damn >drives have "compact disc" written on them for god sake :) >Not to mention a drive light, ear phone sockets, volume control, etc........ > >Rad. >rad@cyberdude.com >http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~radpsx > >Tones wrote in message <77tfaf$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!! >> > >