Saturday, October 09, 2004

the langoor and the modem

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, there was a girl who wanted to have broadband internet installed on her PC. After much persuasion by the girl, she was given the go-ahead to call the bestowers of this wonderful connection. The bestowers, henceforth known as dumbasses, sent over a friggin langoor to do a man's job. This langoor sat for a full five minutes, staring at the PC and wondering how to get rid of the Task Manager that he has used to abruptly terminate all programs that initialized on startup. Feeling the temper that is so close to the surface these days rising, the girl told the langoor to press Alt+F4 to close the Task Manager's window. The langoor calmly proceeded to press Shift+F4. Upon being corrected a bit more loudly, the langoor pressed Ctrl+F4. The girl bit back the urge to tell said langoor off.

An hour later, and langoor is still staring at the screen, wondering why the cable modem is not working and girl sits counting Venetian blinds. Langoor says he shall return the next day with a fully configured modem. Girl restrains herself from bodily throwing langoor out.

Why the hell is it so hard to find competent people to do anything these days?

PS: For the non-urdu, langoor = baboon.

Misha at Saturday, October 09, 2004

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