Domino Effect

[u8drtsox]

Have you ever had a time when because one thing happened, whatever it may be, a whole bunch of crap happened in the background because of it. Funny thing happened today at the Office and I just had to share it with the rest of the Tech community. I'll try to explain it as best I can.
We had a Dell tech show up to service a laptop that had some issues today and I was busy so I couldn't go up and get it for him from the end user so I had someone call the user and he stated that he was leaving for the day so we can take his laptop and do whatever need to be done. Well the person that I had call this individual sent the Dell tech up to the clients cube "at least it used to be his cube" Tech came back down to IT with "A" laptop and proceded to start working on it. He ended up taking about 4 hours to fix it and he had to get going. I told him I would bring it back up to the user's desk for him and said see ya. When I got up to the Clients "old" cube (Mind you, I just got back from vacation and was unaware of the move" I noticed an empty cube. After asking a neighbor where the user moved to I went to his "new" cube that he just moved to and found that "HIS" laptop was still sitting in the docking station just like the user left it. I ran back down stairs to our area to find that the Dell tech had done like Elvis and "Left the Building". I also found out that security had been by earlier and asked if someone had seen a laptop that belonged to an outside sales rep who was onsight for the day. Hee Hee Meanwhile through all of this I also came to find that the reason I hadn't seen the network admin for the past few hours was because he was imaging a new laptop for the sales rep who thought his laptop was stolen. What a day. The best is going to be tomorrow when I have to tell the original end user that nothing was fixed on his laptop yesterday because someone forgot to update their phone list. What a mess...........Anyone else have a good one???

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[xKr0N0sx]

Sounds like you had one hell of a day! LOL

[Grider]

ROFLMAO

Thats great! I love it. Hope it all works out and everybody their sees the humor in it.


Grider


[This message has been edited by Grider (edited November 29, 2000).]

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[pcshark]

Yesterday I was driving to work, got as far as about a mile and a half and then my horn went off. Scared the crap out of me. At first I thought it was someone else's horn. Then I realized it was mine, so I pulled into a parking lot and yanked out the fuse. The horn shut off, and so did the car. Of course, I couldn't start the car again. So first I called AAA, then I called work and told them I wouldn't be in. The shop fixed it, it was a bare wire in the steering column. I bought the mechanic a basket of coffees and chocolates. Total on the day?

Tow: $3 (God, I love AAA!)
Fix: $108
Basket: $25
Total: $136

Well, OK, the basket was my idea. Maybe this doesn't apply to this thread but I thought I'd share my day with you all (-:

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[Grider]

Originally posted by pcshark:

Tow: $3 (God, I love AAA!)
Fix: $108
Basket: $25
Total: $136

Well, OK, the basket was my idea. Maybe this doesn't apply to this thread but I thought I'd share my day with you all (-:

The basket will keep you in their memory! Always a good idea to dote on the good mecha..er...technicians. I used to have a big tub of cheap bubble gum in the truck with me and I always made sure I put a bunch in the top drawer of my wrench turner before I left. I always have been able to get stuff in and out quickly :-)

Grider