I like to give the guy a hard time, but boss-across-the-hall does have some excellent qualities, which is why he gets to be the boss. One of his strengths is customer service. No matter who you are or how pissed off you are, boss-across will do his best to help.

Right now he’s talking to a friend who’s building a Microsoft Access application for his company, a small biomedical equipment outfit. I can only hear boss-across-the-hall’s half of the conversation:

Ok, so you can’t run a report. What happens?

The application just shuts down? Which version of Access are you using?

Your company bought Office from a guy in Russia? He e-mailed you?

Yes, I’m sure it was cheaper.

It’s a little unnerving to know that a biomedical equipment company is getting software deals from Russian spammers.

Ok, so that warning alarm on the ventilator didn’t go off? What happened?

The ventilator just shut down? What model was it?

Your company got a ventilator via e-mail from some guy in the Ukraine?

Yes, I’m sure it was cheaper.

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25 Responses to “Boss-across-the-hall update”  

  1. Gravatar Icon 1 DCA

    If you think that your example sounds scary, then you shouldn’t talk to any of the engineers or clinicians at your hospital. You really don’t want to know.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 Clair

    Hey, what do you have against Russian spammers? I suppose you wouldn’t have an issue if it was a spammer from New York would you? Let’s try to be a little more accepting of those different from us.

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 Clair

    Oh, now I get it. It was just the fact they bought software from a spammer. Yeah, that is pretty scary. Dumb too.

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 Mark

    Holy crap!

    So was that ventilator supplied by the same biomed company, AND was the ventilator keeping somebody alive?

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 Becky

    Heh. For the record, the second conversation is the phoney one that happened in my head.

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Mark

    I’m catching on…

    Bonk on forehead.

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 Dana (the crack whore)

    ROTFLMBO!
    you know if you could just be a little more PC about the foriegn spammers vs. the local spammers!

    The comments are ALMOST better then then the post–not QUITE but ALMOST!
    LMAO!!!!

  8. Gravatar Icon 8 Judy

    I know this is off point but exactly when did Dana become a crack whore?

  9. Gravatar Icon 9 Becky

    A few weeks ago, when I noticed that someone had gotten to this site via a “dana the crack whore” google search. I’m sure the decision to become a crack whore was the result of much soul searching–we should give Dana our support.

  10. Gravatar Icon 10 Clair

    What exactly is the proper way to support a crack whore?

  11. Gravatar Icon 11 DCA

    “What exactly is the proper way to support a crack whore?”

    Ten bucks at a time?

  12. Gravatar Icon 12 Becky

    I meant “support” as in “emotional support.” My bad–next time I’ll be more specific so that the male readers understand ;)

  13. Gravatar Icon 13 Mark

    Is there a term for a higher class of hookers who charge for services by the gram?

    Crack Call Girl, Crack Mistress perhaps?

    Ok now I’m stretching… maybe I need to get back on medication.

  14. Gravatar Icon 14 Clair

    I still don’t understand how to give her “emotional support.” Do I tell her those fishnets are very slimming?

  15. Gravatar Icon 15 Dana (the crack whore)

    look–i can solve all this right now!
    the best way to support me is to GOVE ME MONEY FOR PROJECT BLOG TOMORROW!

    i promise–if i get over $1,000 (and i am only $49 shy) I will repent, change my ways and become simply a regular drug free whore.

    Though hearing that the fishnets are slimming wasn’t bad. Breast comments are always appreciated too.

  16. Gravatar Icon 16 Dana (the crack whore)

    look–i can solve all this right now!
    the best way to support me is to GOVE ME MONEY FOR PROJECT BLOG TOMORROW!

    i promise–if i get over $1,000 (and i am only $49 shy) I will repent, change my ways and become simply a regular drug free whore.

    Though hearing that the fishnets are slimming wasn’t bad. Breast comments are always appreciated too.

  17. Gravatar Icon 17 philip

    Dana send Becky a picture so she can post it and we will be able to criticize your assets more accurately.

  18. Gravatar Icon 18 Becky

    Philip, here is Dana.

    The story behind that picture, and many other entries from Dana’s recent blog-a-thon, are at her weblog, Think Pink.

  19. Gravatar Icon 19 philip

    Great teeth, nice hair, stylish top, can’t see fishnets nor breasts. Maybe a bigger camera. (I know, I just didn’t want to comment on the thing on her forehead in case it was covering a bullet wound from Iraq. Not PC).

  20. Gravatar Icon 20 philip

    Jesus Becky. You should have warned me! I made my smart ass remarks before I went to think pink. Sorry Dana.

  21. Gravatar Icon 21 Becky

    Philip–sorry about that. I can’t speak for Dana, of course, but she has a pretty good sense of humor, else she wouldn’t have posted a picture of herself with a big nipple on her forhead.

    Dana, do you like smart ass remarks? I can’t image why else you’d read this website. If I’ve offended, please chime in, and I’ll do my best to make amends.

  22. Gravatar Icon 22 Dana (the crack REFORMED whore)

    HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
    NO TOTALLY not offended (what you couldn’t link ‘em to a good pic or something??)

    life is too short to get offended over tranny nips and crack whores–i’ve got save that for the big stuff like who the hell has been in here eating my secret stash of GOBSTOPPERS!

    And honestly –i’m not really crack whore. I used that as a ploy to get in with the cool, tiny-assed, agnostic Becky. In all reality, I am a simply home schooling youth pastor’s wife (that is the real truth of it)who occasionally sports a giant nipple pn her forhead. It’s ok really, I am liscenced to influence the youth of america with a State of Florida Educators Certificate.

  23. Gravatar Icon 23 Dana (the crack REFORMED whore)

    addendum:
    I do Question Phillips use of a dietical title in referring to you–
    though Jesus Becky has a nice ring, donchya think?

  24. Gravatar Icon 24 Becky

    WWJBD?

  1. 1 IrishEyes