[Linux-Anyway] Re: Feel like messing things up
- From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:48:24 -0700 (PDT)
Horror,
While reading this:
> A friend I convinced to get internet got it from the
> post/telecom/ISP monopoly, and bought the modem they offered.
> It turned out that the modem supplied by that company
> conflicted with his phone, supplied by the same company, and he
> had to unplug the phone to surf faster than 9600 baud. He went
> to the post office where he bought it, and was told he needs to
> go to the telecommunications office. There he was told they
> can't do anything, he needs to call the support line. After
> spending about three hours a day on hold for about five days,
> he came through and was told he needs to return the modem where
> he bought it. He demanded a supervisor and told him what
> happened the last time he tried it, but was told the same. He
> wanted to talk with the supervisor's supervisor and was told to
> call later. I felt a bit responsible because it was me who
> convinced him to get into it, and I tried to find out myself
> who was responsible, where to return the modem, or to get a
> different phone model. We jointly waded through various
> hierarchies and were always refered to somebody else. He still
> has to unplug the phone to surf, because there appears to be no
> procedure to return the modem at all, and if there is, nobody
> knows how.
I was thiking, "This is so Kafka-esque". Then:
> Now imagine asking something about Linux. Kafka.
Heh. Wasn't it a Yes song in which was said: "The change
remains the same"...?
Meph
--
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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