Random haiku #8

[lilfluff]

Follow directions?
Wow! How did you think of that?
You are a genius!


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It is a bit discouraging sometimes how many problems a day I fix by pointing to the directions sitting in front of someone and asking, "Have you tried following the directions?" Followed by shocked amazement from the one helped when following the directions actually works.

Called a genius for suggesting trying to directions at least once? Um... Well, I suppose for certain definitions of genius. Somehow I still manage to be optimistic about the future.

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Isn't tech support fun? Much like me telling Medicaid patients that they have to call the patient help line ten times a day.

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that. I've sometimes debated answering the phone with random business names just for fun. "Greasy's Pizza," "Ghoti Bait and Tackle," "Rule 34 Therapy Line;" because so many of the people who call are most certainly not paying any attention to how I answer the phone (often barely repeating back a vaguely similar name to what I gave, and sometimes not at all the same).