Tech support: apply Zen, answer simply

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Another tech support talk with a user. This time in relation to why things break down, and I try to apply some zen-ish shit about it all.

(not my) Emergency phone call: an eye for an eye

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

I’ve heard a lot of touché-varied and non sequitur-tinged dialogue between support personnel and users but this takes some cake.

User conversation: here be vampires

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

A user has a strange way of trying to convey something. I think she was a vampire. Here there be transcript. TransylvaaaaaAAAA!!!—transcript.

And now it’s ten years on

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

What happens when a user is toppled by hubris? Read on, Flav.

Tech support: speaking with The Mental Suicide Brigade

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

I’ve just spoken with a person working with Hewlett-Packard, a person who was supposed to be service-minded, yet clearly wasn’t. Transcript follows.