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More Job From Hell 30 June 2014 - 2 comments

So it wasn't what you could really call a happy office.

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The Job From Hell 01 June 2014 - 4 comments

It seems that everyone who's worked in more than a few jobs has had one like this. This one was mine.

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Still more tales from Tech Support 17 May 2014

The last Helldesk stories. For now.

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More tales from Tech Support 06 May 2014 - 2 comments

Some more things that happened while I was on the Helldesk. (Of course that's what we called it. Sometimes we challenged each other to answer the phone that way)

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Tales from Tech Support 28 April 2014

My first tech job was doing tech support by phone for a certain large ISP. (It's still around, but it's just a brand name now.)

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Ping My Finger 22 April 2014

In my first serious ISP job, we sold leased lines (among many other things).

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Getting into Telehouse 16 April 2014

This was late in 1999. I had to get into Telehouse.

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The Voice of God Camera 09 April 2014 - 7 comments

You tell it to the kids these days, they won't believe you. This happened some time late in 2000, when I was working for a medium-sized consumer ISP (that's now a forgotten asset owned by a brand name of a business-only ISP).

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