I just thought I
would make this post to let everyone know about an
event that happened the other night that I thought was rather
fascinating.
I am currently
making about half the income I was a little more
than a year ago, as I am now working for a Networking Help Desk that
provides support to business guests staying in hotels with high speed
internet.
Basically they
call us when they have trouble connecting to Al Gore's internet.
Anyway...
The other day,
one of my fellow co-workers answers the phone with, "Thank
you for calling The Connected Help Desk. What hotel and city are you
calling from?" ... "And what version of Windows are you using today
sir?" ... "Ok then, what version of Mac OS are you running?" ... "Uhm,
did you say Lindows? Could you please hold sir?"
So he places the
guy on hold and starts laughing. He tells those of
us around him that he's talking to some idiot who says he's using Lindows.
Everybody laughs along with him, except for me. I ask him, "What's so
funny?" He replies, "Dude, the guy says he's using Lindows."
I gather that my
co-worker has never heard of Lindows and thinks
the guy he is talking to is simply some schmuck too dumb to know what
he is actually using -- so I ask him to transfer the call to me.
I take the call
to find that the gentleman is using a Laptop given to him by his
company that
is running LindowsOS 4.5. Three short minutes later I have him up and
running on the wireless network.
When I get off
the call, all of my co-workers are looking at me
strangely and want to know what Lindows is. I go on to explain the
Linspire story and take them to Linspire.com; where the same goofball
who made fun of the caller for saying "Lindows" instead of Windows
begins studying the site and after a few minutes says, "What's the big
deal? It's just like Mandrake." I tell him, "Yeah, in the sense that
they're both Linux." He said, "Ah, they're all the same thing." I told
him they weren't hardly the same thing at all, and I was actually a
Lifetime Linspire Insider which means I get access to beta releases,
discounts, inside information, and the ability to test new technology.
In response to
my confession of being a Linspire Insider and still
holding onto his cynical and "Smart Alec" attitude he replies, "I'm sorry."
Rather than
fight back I simply ask him, "Why?"
"It's
obviously good stuff if that guy had to call in and get support because
he couldn't get it to work."
I grinned and
replied, "Well, that's our first Linspire call ever. How many
Windows callers have you supported today?"
Anyway...
