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A spark of pretend passion
We asked for your racy IT stories, and Andy Simpkins has a reader’s true confession for us.
“I used to work for a small telecoms equipment manufacturer. We had one customer based in Switzerland doing adult teleconferencing services,” he writes.
Several times they returned blown DSP cards, so Andy had to visit the customer, where he discovered a room full of mature women employed to sigh and groan to premium-rate phone callers, while they read books and smoked.
At the malfunctioning PC, Andy found the source of the problem – an operator who wore nylon stockings without shoes, spent a long time brushing her hair, and then reached out to touch the server box.
As the spark zipped from the end of her finger to the server and blew another DSP card, she picked up her book and went off to read while she waited for support to arrive.
“Moral of the story: users will go to extraordinary lengths to break things if it means that they don’t have to ‘work’ – or in this case moan down the phone,” Andy points out.
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