Taps V13.2

Ticket #xxxxxx
User – EmployeeA
Issue – Tried making an interoffice call between OfficeZ and OfficeX. Other end can hear me, but I cannot hear them. Tried calling multiple extensions to verify. Even had EmployeeB call from their phone to check to make sure it wasnt a problem with just my phone. They are having the same results.

My Response – EmployeeB has confirmed this to be an issue. So I have done everything I could think to do:
1) I Made a pot of coffee
2) I ate a donut
3) I stared at the phone in the break room really hard with one eyebrow raised.

I think the phones could “Smell what I was cooking” because I was able to call multiple people in OfficeX now and it appears to work now.

It is all in the eyebrow.
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Initial response from my boss in another office :

You have donuts in your office?

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Sometimes it IS who you work with/for.

Ice storms rip through Georgia, Paralyzing the city??? Im OK with that. Grew up a Yankee. Driving in cold weather is like the tortoise in the story. Slow and steady wins the race.

Tornadoes destroy surrounding areas??? I can handle that as well. Had to make my way through some rubble to get to this office. But I was there doing my job just a little bit later than usual.

Flooding in our city streets???? OK… so I may have to get to work in a kayak instead of my bike. But still… I push forward.

No Hazlenut Creamer in our fridge for my coffee???? FUCK THIS!!!! How am I supposed to live like this. I am not a caveman. Screw you guys. Im going home. Its ANARCHY BABY!

And people wonder why IT are usually in pissy mooods. It is because we have to deal with shit like this:

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Stolen from SisD / Holly Hitch

- original post -
It’s simple: Listed below are some of the most successful singers and bands of the past 50 years. Name your favorite song by each one. Do this however you want. You can do them off the top of your head or think long and hard about each one and even do research to jar your memory. If you don’t know or like any songs by a given artist, feel free to type in “none” or “pass.”

Copy the rules and post your list as a note and tag me and whatever other friends of yours you think would enjoy this exercise. If I didn’t tag you but you are reading this list, post a list anyway and also tag me. Feel free to add comments to your choices.

Eagles
-Take It Easy

Led Zeppelin
-The Lemon Song

Rolling Stones
-You Cant Always Get What You Want

Stevie Wonder
-Superstition

Elton John
-Your Song

The Temptations
-I Cant Get Next To You

Bee Gees
-Stayin Alive

Paul Simon (with or without Garfunkel)
-You Can Call Me Al

Bob Marley
-I Shot The Sheriff

Earth, Wind & Fire
-Shining Star

Fleetwood Mac
-Landslide

James Taylor
-How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)

Queen
-Fat Bottomed Girls

Rod Stewart
-Maggie May or Young Turks

Steely Dan
-hey Nineteen

Tom Petty (solo or with the Heartbreakers)
-American Girl (If I had to pick one. Petty annoys me.)

Madonna
-Lucky Star or Like A Prayer

U2
- None. U2 is way overrated.

R.E.M.
-Man On the Moon

John Mellencamp
-Little Pink Houses or Play Guitar

Hall & Oates
-Private Eyes

Janet Jackson
-What Have You Done For Me Lately

Journey
-Faithfully

Wham!/George Michael
-I Want Your Sex

Lionel Richie/Commodores
-Easy

Duran Duran
- The Reflex or Girls On Film

Michael Jackson/Jackson Five
-Dirty Diana or Smooth Criminal

Billy Joel
-The Entertainer

Bruce Springsteen
-Going Down (Just because he says the word down 93 times in 3 minutes. )

Bryan Adams
-Summer Of 69

The Police/Sting
-Every Breath You Take

Talking Heads
-Psycho Killer

Van Halen
-Hot For teacher

Whitney Houston
-How Will I Know

Sheryl Crow
-Picture (Duet with Kid Rock)

Mariah Carey
-Dont have a favorite…..

David Bowie
-Ziggy Stardust

- added by derek –

The following bands should be on the list too… all of them are surely more popular and sold more records than Sheryl Crow, John Mellencamp, Bryan Adams or Wham on the previous list…

ABBA
-Take a Chance On Me

ACDC
-Thunderstruck. I already own a clock, and I can count to 4. So I dont need to listen to ACDC.

Aerosmith
-Hangman Jury

Beatles
-Paperback Writer

Blink 182
-Dont Leave Me

Chicago
-Hard Habit To Break

Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)
-Teach Your Children

Dave Matthews Band
-Happy To Be Stuck With You (What? Thats Huey Lewis and The News? Sounds exactly the same to me.)

Deep Purple
-Smoke On The Water

Def Leppard
-Photograph

Depeche Mode
-People Are People

Eric Clapton
-Layla

Foo Fighters
-Dont have a favorite

Foreigner
-Juke Box Hero

Goo Goo Dolls
-Honestly cant recall any song of theirs I like.

Green Day
-Longview

Guns ‘n Roses
-Dont Damn me

Heart
-Barracuda

Jefferson Airplane / Jefferson Starship / Starship
-We Built This City (C’mon… I grew up in the 80’s)

Jimi Hendrix
-Hey Joe

Live
-LIghtning Crashes….. its the only one I know.

Metallica
-Am I Evil?

Nirvana
-Ugh! I just wish the other two would have taken Cobain’s lead.

No Doubt
-Just A Girl

Pearl Jam
-That one that bores me…. oh wait… .That was all of them

Peter Gabriel
-Sledgehammer

Pink Floyd
-Wish You Were Here

Prince
-Darling NIkki

Radiohead
-Dont know any of their songs actually.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
-True Men Dont Kill Coyotes

REO Speedwagon
-Take It On The Run

Rush
-Time Stand Still or Freewill or Tom Sawyer or 4 hours of Neil Farting…. Dude… you cant pick just one favorite Rush song.

Santana
-Black Magic Woman

Smashing Pumpkins
-Eh… Not a fan.

Smokey Robinson (And The Miracles)
-Tears Of A Clown

Steve Miller Band
-Jungle Love

Styx
-I’m OK

Sublime
-Eh…. not a fan

Supertramp
-Give A Little Bit

The Cars
-Tonight She Comes

The Clash
-Should I Stay Or Should I Go

The Cure
-Friday I’m In Love (The only Cure song my wife doesnt like :] )

The Doors
-The End or Roadhouse Blues

The Stylistics
-You Make Me Feel Brand New

The Supremes / Diana Ross
-Baby Love

The Who
-Squeeze Box or Baba Oreilly

Weezer
-Buddy Holly

ZZ Top
-La Grange

I am leaving in a couple of days. And I will be out of the office for a week.

I am the one person in this company who builds laptops for every class we give.

We have 15 different classes.

We have 3 different versions of each of those classes. Each version depends on a specific version of the software.

When requesting machines for a class, the person is asked both class and version.

The idiot that waited until the last day to mention that they needed a different version can suffer a facial burn.

No really…. I have a lot of free time. And it only takes an entire day to ghost all the machine you need for the class and then reinstall the software necessary for them. I like doing it 3 or 4 times. Makes me look like I’m earning my money here. Please feel free to change your mind again. I am sure I can postpone my business trip because you are a special little flower.

Normally, I would chalk this up to a mistake, rebuild the machines, then go about my day. But this same guy has done this on the last 5 classes he has scheduled.

Next time I am going to accidentally miss the emails he send saying what version he needs. Just like he accidentally missed the 10 I sent him 2 weeks prior asking.