TGIF is as TGIF Does

~ John W. Howell

 

Thank goodness it is Friday. It has been a hectic week. Right in the middle of everything my internet went down. After about two hours with the tech rep it was decided  they had network problems. Was kind of funny since they swore up and down it was something wrong with my computer. You have to wonder about service protocols when I explained that:

  1. My PC could not connect.
  2. My wife’s Apple iPad could not connect.
  3. My wife’s Apple Mac book could not connect.
  4. The Femto cell which allows us to receive wireless calls could not connect.
  5. The TV and VCR which are connected to the internet could not connect.
  6. All our iPhones could not connect.

Yet, the tech continued under the assumption the problem was with my computer. FINALLY the engineering group got on the phone and did a download and upload path test. GUESS WHAT? The @#$%^&* problem was in the network. That’s not all. In the process, the tech did a hard boot of my router and reset all the values back to default. The next day we figured out all our Apple products needed a different frequency which we had set up originally. ANOTHER HOUR ON THE PHONE. Totally frustrating.

I did have to think that no animals or children were hurt in the drama and as a result, got over the feeling of being duct taped to a phone. So here is a little Haiku to take you to the weekend:

Duct Taped to the Phone by John W. Howell ©2014

Been on hold an hour,

Internet is not working . . .

Told to visit web.

25 thoughts on “TGIF is as TGIF Does”

  1. Isn’t this the truth, John. How many times will they assume the problem is because you are an idiot and don’t know what you are going. ‘The Internet is not working… Told to visit the web’ – this is just priceless. They say this all of the time, yet we are the idiots. I hope it is all working okay for you now.

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    1. Thanks Julian. Yes all is good now and I was solely responsible for the phone company releasing a general out of service announcement. (they hate those announcements). Thanks for commenting.

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  4. Hope you stay up and running! These days, losing access to the internet is like losing access to the world. Try to get something out of the experience: write a story 😉

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  6. Phone trees suck. My husband took a half day off from work to prove that his payments had been made to his old student loan since October. (They are on auto draft from the bank.) They insisted they had not received them even though the bank provided the cancelled checks which THEY deposited. It is still not resolved because THEY can’t figure out what THEY did with the money. This is six hours of phone time later.

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      1. Oh not hardly. An internet outage would have affected me personally much more so than him barking up a phone tree all day. (Maybe I am a bit self-centered, but I empathized).

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  7. Your haiku is a thing of tempered beauty. I am in awe. Especially since the best I could have written over such a dilemma would have started with F%^$ and ended with F*&@, with every word in between? You guessed it . . F*#%

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      1. I do believe that was Hitchock’s inspiration for “The Birds”. He was right smack in the middle of a four lettered rant with a flock of seagulls when he thought to himself . . ‘Hey, what if the tables were turned, like in a really bad way?’ The rest,as they say, is Hollywood.

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  8. The Internet is a harsh mistress, and her providers thrice-blasted pottery knaves moulded by a superiority complex and fired by idiocy.

    That haiku was absolutely splendid though, Good Sir.

    Came here by way of Miss Hann-Basquiat. A pleasure to find this site.

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