Cussed out a Microsoft "support tech" Today

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by aigel

Makes no sense at all, yelling at some poor Indian schmuck that's working the phone. Like it is his fault, or he is going to change something. Now your misery just spread around the world and you ruined another guy's day as well.

G

yes, it is sad, isn't it?

I asked him to do certain things - like boost my call to another tech and he refused - I have always gotten another tech before & he also failed to explain why he was not doing that

he also did some passive-aggresive things that did not endear himself to me

like it or not, he is in the same position as the waitstaff at an eatery - he is the customer interface; if there is a problem not of his making then he should explain why he cannot resolve the problem

otherwise, get a job in the fast food industry

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

I speak a bit of Hindi. My wife speaks Hindi, Haryanvi, Punjabi and bit of Gujarati.

Neither one of us speak 'Indian'. Were you speaking to a Cherokee tech support person? Navajo?

thx for picking up on the (ugly amurican) joke - it did take 14 posts tho...

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by nostatic

Apple

do you use iWorks?

I'm curious how it would do at dealing with the many thousands of Word & Excel files I have generated in the last 30 years...

[stomachmonkey]

Quote de stealthn

Visio...

Omnigraffle

[Cajundaddy]

Originally Posted by RWebb

do you use iWorks?

I'm curious how it would do at dealing with the many thousands of Word & Excel files I have generated in the last 30 years...

Open Office (freeware for PC and Mac) would probably handle all of your files easily. It's strength is compatibility across most office software products.

[rusnak]

I bought a MBook Pro. Lifetime PC guy here. I also run Paralellis and win7. I have ms office for Mac. After a year of use, I'm starting to like the Mac and ms office for Mac. I think I can open my old stuff created a decade ago. So far, I've had no problems opening old files.

[emcon5]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

I challenge you to name just 1 piece of commercially available Windows software that the average consumer would want / use that is either a) not cross platform or b) does not have a comparable OS X alternative

Skyrim.

[89911]

Like working there, they've never had an angry caller

I've called their perhaps a few times to get repairs ordered and find it almost comical how they interact and questions they ask. Goofy statements like "Come now, Mr. *****, together we are going to solve this problem". "Can you verify the computer is turned on", "How is your day going". Must of been given a briefing on how the Americans like to chat.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by emcon5

Skyrim.

Was ported 2 years ago.

Besides, there are plenty of comparable open world RPG's available for Mac.

[id10t]

Originally Posted by regency

I have a Macbook Pro.........in order to "view" my shop cameras from home I needed to acquire Windows Parallels. So I did....$80.00.

After about 3 months of "parallels" taking over my Macbook, I finally had my Daughter help me "rid" my Macbook of this stupid "parallels software.

1973 911 T MFI Coupe, Aubergine

Steve

Streaming video from most cameras with a network stream available to cross platform is trivial

[Synchro Joe]

Perhaps they were telecommuting and you had a bad line (very poor landlines there)?

[Synchro Joe]

Or was that Apple (non) Customer Support?