On 4/21/07 8:38 AM, Agnes Boddington wrote:
. . . . Actual dialogue of a former WordPerfect Customer
Support employee. (Now I know why they record these
conversations!):
As a rule of thumb, don't believe any story that could
survive on its literary merits.
I believe this one has been surviving for a long time,
told on various companies.
So I checked Snopes: the incident did really happen -- but
right after the discovery that the power is out, a passage
was snipped:
This woman was good friends with my supervisor, who was
also a French professor (still is, matter of fact--and
> in addition, she's now also my wife), so I couldn't deal
with her the way I really wanted to, and was forced to
explain sweetly and gently to her that computers needed
power just like office lights, and if the office lights
were out, then the computer was too, and that yes, if she
hadn't saved her work she had probably lost everything
she'd done so far in WordPerfect. But I could still
fantasize:
[copied from
http://www.progress.demon.co.uk/Fun/Trouble-with.html ]
and many flourishes were added as the story passed from hand
to hand.
I think the real story is better -- "and she is now my wife"!
--
Joy Beeson
http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/
http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange
http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather)
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
