ok. I'll see about reviving it on Monday
right its bedtime and I'm in a better mood. so here's (briefly) today's contribution to the need for a very large asteroid to strike the Earth. I lead..
<ring ring, ring ring>
hello, IT support..
is that IT support?
<sigh> no its Goods-in.
oh i wanted IT support..
it's ME u twonk!
oh.. err.... haha ...right.
get on with it.
errr these new printer cartridges won't work
are they the wrong ones?
um... no, i've checked the packet, they're for a HP3820c
which is what I gave u
y... but they won't work
why? have u left the protective tape on the bottom or something?
<sulkily> I don't know, do I? can u come up?
oh alright then. I need a cig anyway. i'll c u in about 10mins
(this lad's office is on the other side of the site up 3 flights of stairs in an unheated warehouse, no lift. I have to walk across the main yard which is BIG in the rain that's just started. it's freezing. I get splashed by a fork-lift truck. have to walk past this weird bloke, one of the warehouse labourers, who's really creepy. he' standing in the pouring rain staring into space. when i get there the pr*ck who called me keeps me waiting outside his office until he's finished grovelling on the phone to the Operations Director. I'm not happy)
hiya m8! sorry about that <cheesy cheesy grin grrrrrrr>
y whatever. what's up with these cartridges then?
won't work m8, here look!
(hands me UNOPENED packet of HP cartridges. I cannot speak for a moment)
is this the packet I gave u yesterday?
y m8! <cheesy grin again. just u keep smilin', chum>
and u say they don't work?
y m8!
and they're still in the packet?
y m8!
<perfectly timed pause>
don't think it might have been a REALLY... GOOD.... IDEA.... to have taken them out of the packet and put them into the printer, removing the old ones first of course?
<long painful pause while this revelation sinks home, which it doesn't quite>
errrr errrrrr errrrrrrr don't they do that?
no.
I have to do it?
yes.
and they go in the printer do they?
unfortunately.
<panics> well, errrrr, ..........can't u do it, now ur here?
I have two words for u, one begins with F, the other begins with O.
Edited by - Tawakalna on 01-11-2003 00:24:41