Can techs take a joke?

[mikadonovan]

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No. He looked more like a creepier version of the head bad guy in that Steven Seagal movie "Under Seige". Nice South Park reference, though...

Head bad dude in 'Under Siege" was Tommy Lee Jones, if I remember right. Great show.(The 1st one, Tommy not bald).

[Akitu]

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No. He looked more like a creepier version of the head bad guy in that Steven Seagal movie "Under Seige". Nice South Park reference, though...

I had no idea NAMBLA was a real thing... All these years after watching that South Park episode and I never bothered to look past the face value Matt Stone and Trey Parker offered.

Turns out they played it out pretty well.

[Dalamar]

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ThinkGeek :: The ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron

1.set it on 12 kHz
2.hide in drop ceiling
3.?????????????
4. PROFIT!!!


I bought 2 of them and hide them in separate locations.

[bglacson2002]

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This one is an actual story from a fellow tech.

One customer is having a problem on his earlier version of digital copier, that is having a rat pooh on his machine. He ask the tech what would be a good suggestion to solve this, the tech answered place a cat beside the machine. wow exclaim the customer maybe i'll try it.
after a couple of days the tech got another call from the same customer and told him your idea is working that seems solve the problem but he ask if he can have another advised in terms of security issue, because lots of users are copying on the machine without his knowledge.
so the tech advised him why not put a dog beside the machine. the customer burst into laughter and shook his head and he says to the tech your such an incredible tech you got lots of ideas on your head.
where in the world did they find you.

[mervyn]

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I was walking past the work area of one of our computer guys and noticed a magazine for high school cheerleaders. I looked at the cover and saw his name and the company address on it. I laughed and he said that one of the other computer techs subscribed him to it, but he still does not know who. I thought it was funny, do others play piratical jokes on each other?

Had a salesman once who none of us liked . One day we changed the copier language to Japanese , his face was a picture . He treated us better after that .

[tonerhead]

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Our old vans had luggage racks, it was not uncommon to find a can of pop, water bottle, or aluminum heat roller tossed up there only to rattle around as you cruised through town. A proper sized and placed pressure roller will nearly prevent a car from backing out of a parking spot. Then there was putting gravel into the hub cabs of our vans.

[gwaddle]

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Had a salesman once who none of us liked . One day we changed the copier language to Japanese , his face was a picture . He treated us better after that .

I did that once to the machine in our copier service. The lady that ran it made copies for 3 or 4 customers and never did notice. No fun.

[Billy Bob]

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It's a bugger getting old....I guess the joke was on you (old man).

[emujo]

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Left a message with my boss to call a "Mr C Lyon" in re customer issue. Phone # was local zoo.."can I speak with mr sea lion?" Had tears streaming and ribs were sore for a few hours after that. Ed

[igi]

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Left a message with my boss to call a "Mr C Lyon" in re customer issue. Phone # was local zoo.."can I speak with mr sea lion?" Had tears streaming and ribs were sore for a few hours after that. Ed

exelent one we did something similar with mrs G RAFF
cheers

[kingarthur]

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this isn't a work joke, but over here the surname " Behan" was very common in the 80's, quite often we used to phone up our local pub, and ask the barmaid if Les Behan was there , worked time after time, when the bar maid would shout out.."is there a Les Behan in here tonight".......

[+ve charge]

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Wasn't funny! I was working on an analog copier when my boss and his 6 year old son came in. As was the norm the little boy used to hang around the workshop with loads of questions whilst the boss used to go about his business. That day little johnny (as I referred to him) was particularly interested in the retractable head screwdriver I was using, when he asked me what it was I asked him to guess.... Needless to say that the bright spark only had the answer when the boss walked in to take him away... "I know" he said "you only put it out when you want to screw" WTF!!! was my thought that day.