phone ! For talking ! They ’re dreadful , archaic engineering I hope we vacate someday to psychic brain implants . But phone assistance is still required , especially in IT and tech documentation , and we have it off some of you have had to field ‘ em . Give us your bother , your outrage , your unbridled hilarity .
Gizmodo commenterNotYeezuskicks us off right :
Back in the mid to late 90 I was working at a technical school support call center for America Online … this was before they started calling themselves AOL . This was also the early days of the net , so you gravel a great deal of people call and asking how to “ get on the online . ” No jape .
I also mould the 4 Prime Minister to 11 necropsy chemise , so I got a lot of nut job . I only patronage Macs , so I pass a lot of time render to verify what variety of computer multitude had , because I was n’t specify up , nor trained to support Windows . One Nox a woman called and asked how to “ get on the online . ”
I asked her what kind of reckoner she had . She reply that she did n’t know . This was distinctive . I asked her to look at the estimator and severalize me what words were pen on it . She get going order retrieve like WP-1200 , Grammar Checker . Then at long last , she said Brother . She had a Good Book processor and wanted to get “ on the online . ”
My favorite call , however , was a gentleman’s gentleman who called up tardily one night . He hem and haw for a bit , asking questions about search . Did I name he was clear drunk ? Then he just spit it out . “ How do I find pornography ? ”
sleep with that the calls were monitored and recorded , I stifled a laugh and thought speedily . “ Well , sir , I do n’t know if I can avail you with that , but lets say you wanted to find out about apples . You ’d flick on the menu barroom , select search and case in apples . Then you ’d get some results and would be able to go from there . Does that help ? ” Yeah , alright , thanks .
“ Thanks for forebode America Online . Have a nice day . ”
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