Nice Sweater
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Nice sweater!
It was rumored that one particular user in a company I used to work for,
believed we could see her through the laptop's screen. In fact, it was
once said that the user went so far as to power down her laptop and
close the cover while she was dressing. Anyway, she called one day about
a problem she was having trying to get her modem to work. She was very
pleasant and I walked her through a couple of quick fixes. She was in
the process of rebooting and I casually remarked, "By the way, nice
sweater." She went ballistic. "I knew you could see me!" she screamed
and hung up.
Well, she must have called her boss, who, in turn, called his boss, who
called his boss, who called my boss's boss and 30 minutes later, I was
asked to step into the office of the head of sales and explain why I was
looking at users through their laptop screens. My immediate supervisor
went with me, and could hardly contain her laughter when she heard the
complaint. It took us 20 minutes to convince the head of my department
that there was no way that we could see our sales staff and I'm still
not sure he believed us.
- Bob
Appleton, WI
