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Old 11-03-2003   #30
Carrie
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Gonzo I hear ya. The paper techs couldn't believe that the job would actually involve working outside without air conditioning (gasp), or going into people's homes (eww) and opening up their computers. Most of them had never even cracked a case. They didn't know a mac address from a Macintosh and couldn't even set up email accounts in Outlook Express. They wanted to be at work at 9 and leave before 5 - working only in the office telling the DSL technicians what to do, of course.

The older guys coming would say "Look, all I've done is surfed around on the internet. I don't have any degrees but I promise you if you show me how to do it, I'll learn it." They were there every morning at 7:30 and they insisted on staying at the site until the problem was fixed, even if that meant going home at 10pm. Didn't matter if I wanted to send them down to Homestead or up to Jupiter, they were happy to go. The paper techs refused to drive their shiny cars into Miami because they might get carjacked and whined anytime I tried to send them further than Deerfield Beach. (This is from central Ft Lauderdale.)

It was pathetic.
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