Postscript to Hold, Please
28 November 2005
Filed under Technology, Text, The Interweb
Since my modem mysteriously stopped working a couple of weeks ago, I’ve spent approximately a million years on hold to my ISP trying to get them to sort out the problem. Today, after the replacement modem they sent out didn’t work, a really nice guy called Shane RANG ME to help with things, and after getting me to try a few clearly ineffectual things, said “hang on - if I just click this button marked ‘activate’…”
Der.
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Views from the Floor
kate says:
does he also know about turning it off and turning it back on?
Virginia says:
The funniest bit was when he said "I'd never even SEEN that button before. I didn't know it existed." Hah.
Chai says:
And who now dares to say Intelligent Design is bunkum?
Speak, friend, and enter