Re: It's Friday, I want to hear a funny IT, system i, computer Story.

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some years ago I made a graphical report for a department manager.  She 
was belligerent towards me because I was so far off from the real data.  
I checked and rechecked and it looked right to me, but she kept on about 
it and finally left the office and went to her boss to complain about 
the nincompoop in the IT Department.  He looked at the graph and said. 
:yeah, looks right to me.  What is the problem?"  She said "Look, if I 
am doing that great a job I should get a raise!"  (although the way I 
heard the story she was way less courteous than that.  )

He looked at her, said he agreed, and would see what he could do.  A few 
days later she came in with a pan of cookies and a huge thank you.  
Apparently she'd gotten both a raise and a promotion.  And my boss got a 
recognition for creating an environment where new stuff was being developed.

She and I shared a lot of laughs about that as time went on.


Chuck Lewis wrote:
> LOL - THAT was funny !
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Liotta
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 5:24 PM
> To: midrange-nontech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: It's Friday, I want to hear a funny IT, system i, computer
> Story.
>
> Harvell, Joel wrote:
>   
> > I'll start.  I heard of a woman who called into customer support
> > complaining that her cup holder didn't work any more.  When asked to
> > explain, she elaborated, "You Know the cup holder that comes out of the
> > front of my computer.  The one labeled "CD"!!!
> >     
>
> Possibly apocryphal, but I did read this one many years ago.
>
> A programmer happened to see a user respond to an ugly error message 
> that showed up on her display -- "Not authorized to object." The 
> user simply canceled and went back in to the next step.
>
> Programmer sputters something like "Wait! What was that? How often 
> does that happen?"
>
> User: "It happens when I go through that last option. I do it every 
> week."
>
> Programmer: "Why didn't you tell someone? Why haven't you complained?"
>
> User: "Well... it says I wasn't authorized to object..."
>
>
> Tom 
>
>