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Tales from Tech Support

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So we're having a meeting with a software vendor about a new ERP solution. Representatives of every department and the boss himself present.

Since all they know is some ancient piece of shit software that had the worst search imaginable, they keep yapping and asking about the search features.

Vendor's representative demonstrates and explains the different search options in depth and mentions the possibility of using wildcard search, the wildcard being an asterisk, as in pretty much any search tool anywhere.

This launches a salesman (who was specifically selected to be on this meeting for being the most IT competent in that department) into a tirade, wildly gesticulating and waving his open and running laptop all about the place while pressing random keys on the keyboard, about how unusable that is, because his keyboard doesn't even have an asterisk. (it does) Anyone who actually knows a thing about computers or two sinks into the ground in embarrassment. Boss keeps nodding in agreement and making supporting interjections on behalf of the salesman.

The end.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That makes more sense.