Monday, June 2, 2003		Cyber Humour

Smart business
From Sunil Sharma

WHEN my printer’s type began to grow faint, I called a local repair shop where a friendly man informed me that the printer probably needed only to be cleaned. Because the store charged $50 for such cleanings, he told me, I might be better off reading the printer’s manual and trying the job myself. Pleasantly surprised by his candour, I asked, "Does your boss know that you discourage business?" "Actually it’s my boss’s idea," the employee replied sheepishly. "We usually make more money on repairs if we let people try to fix things themselves first."

Santa gets e-mail

This incident remind us how much the world has changed. At a department store Santa Claus asked a little boy who was sitting on his lap:

"What would you like me to bring you for Christmas?"

The boy replied, "Don’t tell me you didn’t get my e-mail!"

Tech support guffaws

• This guy calls in to complain that he gets an "Access Denied" message every time he logs in. It turned out he was typing his username and password in capital letters. Tech Support: "Ok, let’s try once more, but use lower case letters." Customer: "Uh, I only have capital letters on my keyboard."

• A woman called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer. The tech asked her if she was "running it under Windows." The woman responded, "No, my desk is next to the door. But that’s a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his is working fine."

• Customer: "So that’ll get me connected to the Internet, right?"
  Tech Support: "Yeah."
  Customer: "And that’s the latest version of the Internet, right?"
  Tech Support: "Uhh...uh...uh...yeah."