That is classic !

On Jun 10, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:

> When a customer costs more then what you earn make her a Jetson.
>
> YOU'RE FIRED!!!
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
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> Troy, OH 45373
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> “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
> continue that counts.”
> --- Winston Churchill
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Jerry Richardson
> <jrichard...@aircloud.com> wrote:
>> EEE GADS!!!!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless- 
>> boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Larsen - Lists
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 8:55 PM
>> To: WISPA General List; Mikrotik discussions
>> Subject: [WISPA] Customer ID-10-T problems
>>
>> So we get an angry call from a customer demanding that we come out to
>> fix their computer, because their Internet hasn't worked for a  
>> couple of
>> months.
>>
>> Check the system logs, and yes - her link has been down for 13 days.
>> Since we have an automated system that calls every two days when a
>> customer is down for 48hours or longer, and then we have office staff
>> call nearly every day after that period until we get an answer.   At
>> fourteen days, she had received no less than eight phone calls,  
>> none of
>> which had been answered.   We are very proactive about customer  
>> outages.
>>    Customer also had a long history of not responding to phone calls
>> and had twice not been at home when our tech made the 50 mile round  
>> trip
>> to her house.   There was a bit of a history there.
>>
>> Now that we had her on the phone, we dropped everything and sent the
>> nearest available tech to look at the problem.   She has no idea how
>> much of an effort that is right now because we have had THREE major
>> hailstorms and multiple tornadoes come through our area in the last  
>> two
>> weeks and all of our service staff and contractors are booked solid  
>> for
>> two weeks to deal with radios damaged by the storms, ripped off of
>> roofs, or "re-aimed" by the strong winds.
>>
>> It all boiled down to two simple things, one that is very common  
>> and one
>> that we had never come across before.
>>
>> 1)  Her POE was plugged in backwards.
>>
>> 2)  After plugging in the POE, she was still getting a "page could  
>> not
>> be displayed" page in Internet Explorer.   Tech sat down and started
>> doing some testing to see what was going on.  Pings were fine, email
>> seemed to work fine, technician's laptop got on and was able to do
>> everything normal on her connection.   Plugged it back into her  
>> computer
>> and got the same error.   Tech puts in our home page and it comes  
>> right
>> up.   Checks browser settings and find out that she had set her HOME
>> PAGE to the dnserror.htm file (IE - the file that comes up when DNS
>> isn't working)  - which was putting up an error everytime she started
>> her browser.
>>
>> #...@#$%@#...@#$%@#!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Her next bill will have a $35 service call attached to it.   I'd  
>> like to
>> deliver it wrapped around a large rock through a window, but we will
>> probably just put it in the mail.
>>
>> Matt Larsen
>> vistabeam.com
>>
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