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[serinde]

[Where "outage" = "a card gone bad on the DSLAM"]

DSL Customer: Well, can't you tell them to have these outages after business hours?

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[pir.livejournal.com]

"I want to know beforehand about all unscheduled outages."

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Last Thursday's Dilbert calendar entry...

Dilbert (on psychiatrists couch): All week I felt like I was drifting through alternative universes. I was me, but I was different.

Psych: Have you been near any dense objects that would make the fabric of space-time fold onto itself?

***ONE WEEK AGO***

PHB: Will there be any unforseen problems?

Dilbert (shaking): What's happenning to me?!!

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

Well, you could tell $TELCO to have their outages after business hours.

So can I, or any man, but will $TELCO listen to you?

Or even understand what you're on about?

Besides, if the outage is outside business hours, some poor bastard is going to get paged. Best to have them when we're all at our desks, I say.