Archive for May, 2006

If I didn’t know for a fact that this was recorded years ago I would think that I was listening in to Jerry Taylor from Tuttle Oklahoma as he called CentOS about his website… This recording just goes to prove that you don’t have to be an elected government official with 22 years of experience in computer systems engineering and operation to make a complete ass of yourself. I guess Jerry Taylor can’t patent his approach to getting technical support, since this constitutes prior art. :)



Language and cultural barriers can be a painful obsticle when attempting to get technical support. Now that almost every major computer and networking company has outsourced some part of their tech support we encounter it all the time. This recording gives English speakers a bit of unique perspective, since we are able to perfectly understand the tech support agest as he tries to describe a common paper clip. Keep in mind as you listen to this that when you spoke to ‘John Smith’ in India about your Netgear router that everyone in his office understood what he was saying and they couldn’t understand why you were having such a hard time understanding his simplified explanation… This is a prime example of walking a mile in the other tech support guy’s shoes:



This sounds so much like an obscene phone call that it tends to creep me out.