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Russ Grover
8 mins
Client
is having issues with Wake On LAN, on a new system, I tell him to call
Dell, the Dell support doesn’t know what WOL is and puts him on hold
three times, to find someone who does! Finally they have to push to PRO
account because non of the lower support people have never heard of WOL!
Boy we are getting old!
“For this one client I had to send the drives by brinks truck to a facility in Quebec to shred the drives document it and ship back the destroyed drives and a copy of the approved documentation.” Of course I could have ran Boot and Nuke + Eraser at 35 passes then destroyed the disks taking pictures as I go 😉 “
Karl W. Palachuk
1 hr ·
There are some strange people in this business.
One of our clients was purchased several years ago. The new owner
already had their own I.T. people. So they took over everything,
including domain name registration. Then they deleted all the email
accounts for the company they bought.
Now the domain name needs
to be renewed and all the emails on that account do not exist. They want
me to help (for free) and will not communicate by real email. Instead I
get email from a fake profile on LinkedIn. It’s like they’re hiding something.
At some point, someone is going to give me a legitimate credit card
with a legitimate name and address. Until then all I can say is that “it
sucks to be you” for hiring incompetent people to manage your tech
support.
Oh, and “Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”
Oh, and I’ve been wondering when I’d implement the next price increase. Now I’ve decided it’s 4 O’Clock today.
A lot of pepole say, that they own the same laptop as I do
I have a thinkpad