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[โ€“] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (16 children)

As someone who's an IT person I can tell you the vibe is actually, "Well shit, I guess I'm going to actually have to diagnose something."

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I swear I could hear the call center employee (probably not really an IT guy at this stage) sweating when I called them after a thunderstorm fried my router's entry port and I read them the list of troubleshooting I already went through before calling them.

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