Humor from the Shark Tank

Published on October 8, 2004 By citahellion In Personal Computing

Computerworld sends out a daily humorous e-mail about peoples' misadventures in computer support. Some are mildly amusing, some outrageously hilarious.

Today's was hilarious, and it ties in to computer gaming, so I thought I'd share it with you all...

Shark Tank: Sometimes the quickest solution is the best one

This pilot fish is the lone IT person at a small manufacturing company.
So when the music-on-hold system stops working, you know who has to
deal with it.

"The music-on-hold player continuously replayed a CD and fed into the
simple phone system we were using," fish says. "Eventually the player
broke. Since I had a spare PC in my office, I wired the audio jack on
the PC to the phone system, ripped the CD and set the media player to
continuous replay.

"I gave myself a pat on the back for coming up with an immediate
solution and made a mental note to order a new player the next time I
made an equipment purchase."

A few days later, a buddy from another department drops by fish's
office so they can spend lunchtime blasting each other in a multiplayer
computer game.

"He used the spare PC in my office and I used my workstation," says
fish. "We were well into destroying each other when the CEO's secretary
frantically burst into my office, scared, panicking.

"She explained in horror that our music on hold had turned into death
screams and hellish demonic noises!"

Fish knows instantly what the problem is -- the game's audio was
playing on the music-on-hold system -- and he takes instant action. He
leaps up, tears the old music-on-hold player from the wall, throws it
to the floor and stomps on it.

Meanwhile, his friend quits out of the game on the spare PC, and the
music-on-hold system goes silent.

"They bought a new player that day," fish says. "And for a long time,
you could still hear them talk about the possessed music-on-hold
player."

To read more true amusing tales of IT woe, visit the computerworld shark tank archives at www.computerworld.com

Comments

BlueDev

on Oct 08, 2004

That was very funny. Thanks for passing it along.

chiprj

on Oct 08, 2004

That was hilarious! Quick thinking by the guy! I got a really good laugh out of that one! Thanks!

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