Techie Fired For Inventing An Acronym - And Accidentally Applying It To The Boss
The Register, March 16th, 2023
On-Call, The Register's weekly column in which we share readers' stories of tech support trauma, usually opens with a short reverie about the approaching weekend.
This week we're just going to launch straight into an enthusiastic "TGIF" - the abbreviation for Thank God It's Friday - for reasons that will become apparent after we introduce you to a reader who we'll Regomize as "Hal".
"I had just gotten a job in Florida working as an in-house on-site tech support rep," Hal told On-Call.
It wasn't a happy job. "People really did not like tech support because they were a bit snobbish and off-putting." Well, that'll do it.