I work nights and weekends in an ice hockey pro shop. Monday night I got a call from one of the other guys who works there. The owner was out of town, and the POS computer was dead. It was locked up when he came in, so he powered it off and on and got NOTHING on the screen. No lights, no sounds, nada. Dead.
So he went over to Walmart to get some manual receipts, and while there ran into a lady who had worked on their system before. He expained the problem to her, and she told him to bring it over to her that night and she'd fix it, saying it was problem with the hard drive boot sector. Did I mention the system was DEAD???? How could it be a hard drive boot sector? I broke speed limits getting there, knowing that the system was not backed up. The last thing I needed was for this lady to get her hands on that hard drive! There were 2 other systems in the back, missing various parts. One of them is now missing a power supply, which I installed in the POS computer. Up and running in under 30 minutes. My efforts easily saved the owner $100 had it been taken a store that knew what they were doing; and probably saved all if his data had it gone to that other lady. What'd I get for it? 30 minutes on my timecard at $9 an hour. This time. Next month we're going to transform his mess of computer parts into a REAL network, purchase 2 new computers, update his POS system and give him remote connectivity from home. And he'll be paying me more than $9 an hour. :) He's knows what I can do in a pinch, he knows I'm worth it. Sometimes it pays to do someone a favor. Unfortunetly it doesn't seem to happen often enough... Ls -----Original Message----- From: David Boatright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I fixed computers , created a website, designed flyers and buisness cards for this woman I worked with, all for free. No this person also had a second job cleaning apartments so I asked her one day if she would come around and clean mine. She said sure no problem it will cost you $80, she got offended when I said I wanted her to do it for free. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the originator of the message. This footer also confirms that this e-mail message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of Merle Norman Cosmetics or The Nethercutt Collection. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
