June 26, 2006
Urban Legend
Verbose Jay has had a problem with the power for his net connection being unplugged by nice men working on the gutters or something. Until today I would have sworn that only happened to life support equipment in the ICU of some hospital in Jo'burg.
It so happens that I just started a new cellular contract. I'm working with a guy who started wireside back when Mother Bell owned everything. He told me about an ongoing service problem he worked wherein a company's phone system would die at 5 PM about once a week, taking out the alarm and anyone working late. Serviceman would come out the next morning and not find any trouble. Finally my cow-orker told his dispatcher he was taking a late lunch break in the telecom closet there. Sure enough, the guy from the cleaning crew came in and unplugged the PBX to plug in his vacuum cleaner. I told him it was an urban legend but he swears it's true.
Posted by triticale at June 26, 2006 05:53 PM | TrackBack