[Publib] Belated Friday: Favorite Interview Questions

[Donna Jo Atwood]

Back in the old tractor-feed printer days we had a printer that was
possessed by evil spirits.  Just to make life more interesting it was placed
up high and far back on the top of a hex-module.  Whenever the paper would
jump the track all the tall people on staff would be a) working with other
patrons; b) in a meeting with the director; or c) out of the building, so
that short arthritic moi would get to climb up on a chair, take the lid off,
climb down and get the bent paper clip, climb up, etc.  to the accompaniment
of a chorus of "I"ve got to have my print out right now."  (Of course, the
problem never happened if the print out was of 15 copies of Mickey Mouse
posing with a banana-all destined to never be picked up.) 

Anyway, the point of this rambling is that computers and their ilk know when
to pick their moments.  Don't ever turn your back!

 

Donna Jo Atwood

Reference Librarian 

Olathe (KS) Public Library

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of K.G. Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:54 AM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] Belated Friday: Favorite Interview Questions

 

I can tell you all from personal experience that the exception here is if
said support person happens to be wearing a once-in-a-blue-moon skirt and
pantyhose, say for some fancy event. At that point the computer problem will
not resolve itself until she has climbed over a desk and is crouching behind
a computer, shouting "Are you getting a little blinky in the upper left
screen or are you seeing the Windows logo now?" The other rules here are
that she MUST get a hole in her pantyhose before the computer mysteriously
burps to life again and she must NOT have a spare pair in her purse, and she
MUST spend the rest of the day with strange grey dust balls all over her
dress. 

 

Also, if she is on the way out the door for any scheduled event, she must
avoid walking past computers, as they know this and will spontaneously
malfunction. 

 

Karen G. Schneider

 

 

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