The Story of the Roach Infected Computer

[trinnyg]

While working for a computer help desk.

We got a call from the Service support Desk saying that they have to get the place fumigated as they had a customer's computer come in with coach roaches in it direct from the customer. EWWW

Anyone remember the HP computers with the place to put the recovery cd's on the top. We had a call from the service desk advising that the computer was slow because the user used the plastic holder at the top as an ashtray.

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Are we allowed to comment about bad customer service we GET
A local convience store has multiple promotions on chocolate bars and they never seem to get it right.
Cadbury 100g varienty 2 / $5 you get your receipt and it shows the following
Cadbury 100 $2.79
Cadbury 100 $2.79
subtotal + 5.58
GST 0.28


when pointing out the error I was advised that the price was plus GST. Kay My math is rather good last time I looked provincial / GST taxes were separtate and 2.79 + 2.79 = 0.58 cents to much.

As customer service we get all people. is scary when we can't get good customer service ourselves when we take the time to be polite.

[candyshopgirl]

My dad works as a repairman at full ****.Anyways he was the one that talked to his boss and got a "roach" fee.Basically my dad got tired of opening computers and other electronics and hundreds of roaches running of his arms.So if my dad has to deroach your computer,its an extra 300.00.Sorry but you want to live in filth then you deserve to pay extra.Also when my hubby went over to fix his sisters computer(I've wrote about my lovely sister in law).He opened her computer and roaches came out and went up hubbys arms and all over his feet.He just got up and left.He came home and put his shoes and clothes in trashbags and refused to bring them in the house.My neighbors got an eyefull that day.Naked hubby.

[Spork4pedro]

*shudder* ok..the thought of someone opening a computer and then having roaches crawl out makes me want to vomit! Now I have to ask my Firedog BF if that's ever happened at his store. BLECH!!!!

[Chromatix]

I'm glad to say it hasn't happened to me.

But then, I don't repair other peoples' machines, except occasionally my parents' or one or two of my closest friends. And they keep things clean enough to avoid getting insect invasions.

I've heard that roaches like to live in something clean and sheltered, and only come to the dirty place for food. So the computer itself was probably the clean place, with the advantage of being warm. Of course if a roach gets tangled in the fans, the computer is likely to stop working fairly quickly.

[Gravekeeper]

Ugh, god.

There is absolutely nothing living inside of EVE or Rin-chan.

Plus the inside of EVE would be a death trap seeing as I have an airflow of 133.6 CFM in her atm. =p

.....yes they have names. Leave me alone.

[MadMike]

I guess I'm lucky. The worst thing I ever came across when I opened up a computer was a lot of dust that smelled like an ashtray.

[Amina516]

Ugh, god.

There is absolutely nothing living inside of EVE or Rin-chan.

Plus the inside of EVE would be a death trap seeing as I have an airflow of 133.6 CFM in her atm. =p

.....yes they have names. Leave me alone.

Thats ok! My husbands main PC is named Harold....not sure why. His Zune is Blanche ( tho its black) and he named by Laptop Henrietta (ewww!) and my Zune is Brown Bear. I understand.

I guess I'm lucky. The worst thing I ever came across when I opened up a computer was a lot of dust that smelled like an ashtray.

Mu hubby fixes computer on the side. No bugs [yet] but he has found mounds upon mounds of cat hair(on several different comps)...and hes allergic..

[Stryker One]

Ugh, god.

There is absolutely nothing living inside of EVE or Rin-chan.

Plus the inside of EVE would be a death trap seeing as I have an airflow of 133.6 CFM in her atm. =p

.....yes they have names. Leave me alone.

Eh, I've got a whole theme going for my machines:

Enola-Gay
Fat Man
Little Boy
Einstein
Oppenheimer
Missouri
Trinity

[Animae]

That is just gross.

All I have is dust and hair, which is why I open mine once a month and clean it out.

[evileatinggrasshopper]

I know it's quite dumb, but my laptop is Sir Laptopimus Maximus II (he's II because he replaced a stolen one)

[Nyoibo]

Are we allowed to comment about bad customer service we GET
A local convience store has multiple promotions on chocolate bars and they never seem to get it right.
Cadbury 100g varienty 2 / $5 you get your receipt and it shows the following
Cadbury 100 $2.79
Cadbury 100 $2.79
subtotal + 5.58
GST 0.28


when pointing out the error I was advised that the price was plus GST. Kay My math is rather good last time I looked provincial / GST taxes were separtate and 2.79 + 2.79 = 0.58 cents to much.

Where the hell was this that someone doesn't understand the concept that GST is already factored in to the shelf price?

I want to blame Tasmania and it's inbreeding, but there's a slim chance it's not.

[Gravekeeper]

Where the hell was this that someone doesn't understand the concept that GST is already factored in to the shelf price?

Canada. Where it's not already factored into the shelf price. =p

[Nyoibo]

Well that's just dumb.

[Broomjockey]

Well that's just dumb.

No, it isn't. Because all taxes are added at the register. This includes Provincial Sales Tax which changes from province to province, and some areas may have local taxes for different things. To print up seperate signs for every area with the exact price every time the tax changes, especially when the GST alone has dropped 2%, 1% at a time, would be really expensive. Just because it's different from your system doesn't make it dumb. Just different.

And to Trinny: It's fine to tack on a "bad service gotten" story to a thread you're already making, but if you've ever got just one story about it, and nothing else, it's best put in the "Sightings" section of the main board.

[Nyoibo]

I meant Canada's dumb.

*runs and hides from screaming hockey stick wielding canucks*

I kid, I kid I like canadians and their gooey malpe syrup centers.

It just seems wierd, In australia we have different taxes from state to state, most of thats gone with an across the board 10% GST, but it's all factored on the price tag, so what it adds up to from the tag is the total at the register, confused the hell out of me first time in the US when a $20 purcase came out at something like $21.