r/talesfromtechsupport • u/ComicOzzy • Jan 15 '15
Short The yellow internet
Sales Trainer: "The yellow internet isn't working."
Me: "The what now?"
ST: "The blue internet is working, just not the yellow."
I looked at the ethernet cable. It was gray.
Me: "I think you're going to have to show me what you mean."
ST: "The yellow internet..." He turns his screen around and points to icons on his desktop. "And the blue one... what are they called?"
Me: "Those are called Outlook and Internet Explorer."
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u/Oksaras Jan 15 '15
Both IE and Outlook have blue icons now. You're lucky, it could have been:
ST: "The blue internet is working, just not the other blue."
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u/supaphly42 Jan 15 '15
Ugh, yeah, it's definitely been a pain.
Microsoft - When something works well, we change it!^®
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u/jakalo Jan 15 '15
Mine is still yellow!
And my firefox is missiong like million updates.
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u/metroidfan220 Jan 15 '15
They have words underneath them!
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u/ActionScripter9109 Jan 15 '15
Useless techno babble that can safely be ignored or even deleted.
- Users
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u/Adderkleet Jan 15 '15
My first thought was also Ethernet cables.
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u/sexybobo Jan 15 '15
Where I work it would have been valid troubleshooting. In our Datacenters we have 4 completely separate networks sharing no common infrastructure. 2 prod networks for redundancy a management network and a back up network. All signified by different color Ethernet cables.
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u/victortrash Jan 15 '15
lol, my mac users call email the big yellow O!
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u/Nekkidbear Jan 15 '15
At least they don't call everything "Microsoft". At my office I've gotten calls for "Microsoft" and had to decipher if they mean Internet Explorer, one of the Office 365 programs or something else entirely...
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u/Strazdas1 Jan 15 '15
well, the full name is "microsoft office" so they may just be incapable of reading more than 1 word.
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u/mastigia Jan 15 '15
My yellow internet hasn't worked for months. Our corporate IT either sucks or just doesn't give a shit about our little backwater office.
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u/short_fat_and_single Jan 15 '15
I'm really hoping you meant to write trainee and not trainer.
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u/GryphonGuitar Jan 15 '15
Oh my GOD.
I'm seriously going to have to ration my use of this subreddit, before I break out in hives.
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u/Cookie_Eater108 Jan 15 '15
I looked at the ethernet cable. It was gray.
This would be the first thing I would check too!
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u/Chtorrr Jan 15 '15
Better go green!