Yes, Your Network Is Down - You Annoyed Us So Much We Crashed It
The Register, Friday, October 18th, 2024
By the end of a working week, it can be tempting to just blow up whatever tech you've toiled for days to tame. Which is why each Friday The Register offers a (hopefully) cathartic instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which you share your tetchiest tech support tales.
This week meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Iain" who once worked for an IT services provider whose clientele included the publishers of a quarterly magazine.
"They tried their best to come across as big fish business types," Iain told On Call. But anyone who dealt with them came away thinking of the hustlers in a Guy Ritchie movie.
That impression was helped by the fact the publishers were reluctant to pay their bills - or even acknowledge invoices - until they needed something done in a hurry
Which was the situation when Iain took their call.