Foamy the Squirrel says it so much better than I could…behold the story of my life for the last 48 hours. The MP3 player’s program will load on the Pentium III/Windows 98 machine but will not run. The PIII will download, but not run, drivers for memory sticks and other USB devices, although it HAS a USB port. Perhaps it’s not so “U”. Somebody tell Nancy Mitford!
The Laptop running Windows XP Pro will install the program, but not get online. It will run the program, but not connect to the MP3 player. It will also Copy from CDs inserted in it, at playing speed only, making lovely little album folders with icons and everything, but when you open them, they are empty.
Steve Jobs, we need to talk. Hiring a blogger? I werk foar tek.
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Poor Rain. I feel your pain. Only mine is with Time Warner who has been screwing me around on bills and service ever since October when I first set up the account at the new place. Sigh.
Is that STILL not fixed???
Hey–that portrayal of the Indian tech support guru was totally inaccurate.
These days they hire language coaches to help them talk with, among others, Texas accents. Besides, half of them learned at English universities and speak better Queen’s lingo than we do.
Oh, and they make rather more than $20 a day–which is why so many companies make do without any sort of customer help.
Thank you. Fact-checking slow at work today?
Still. I cannot even call any more either even talking to the people on the phone one more time will give me an anneurism.
Write a spec script about a poor customer’s revenge on the call center dweebs who fuck her over one time too many.
Gee, a horror script, that might be fun.
Make sure to slant it for Jake Ggyylleennhhaall and write lots of shower scenes into it, k?
You have such good taste in men.
Well, Jake and Viggo and I think so. Maybe a steam room wrestling scene too? Or…midnight skinnydipping? Those are always in horror movies!
No, no … write it for Maggie. Oh, and include a role for Gillian Anderson.
Well I’d watch it.
Anyway, there’s already a script that might be more readily adapted to the purposes of confounding tech supporters:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html
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