For The Record: You Just Ordered Me To Cause A Very Expensive Outage
The Register, Thursday, June 27th, 2024
And ordered so rudely this techie had little interest in sticking around to fix the subsequent chaos
Techies are often beset by undeserving and despicable dolts who demand daunting feats of tech support. Which is why each Friday The Register brings you a fresh instalment of On Call - the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of defeating those dunderheads.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Norman" who is an electrical engineer by trade and during one phase of his career found himself doing a lot of office refit jobs, most of them in the financial district of the City of London.