To address an emergency call, a doctor came to see a rich patient at his home, who was screaming with extreme stomach pain and was surrounded by his anxious relatives.
To address an emergency call, a doctor came to see a rich patient at his home, who was screaming with extreme stomach pain and was surrounded by his anxious relatives. Doctor kicked all the relatives out of the room and closed the door.
After a while, he came out and said, ‘Please give me a pair of scissors.’ People gave him a stainless steel scissors. He again went inside, closed the door, came back, and said, ‘Please give me a hammer.’ He got one. He repeated the routine of going inside, closing the door and then coming back for a new tool a few times.
He came outside one more time and asked, ‘Please give me a screw driver.’ With each request for surgical tools, tension amongst the relatives mounted high. The oldest son could not hold himself, broke down and lost his patience.
In a crying voice he pleaded, ‘Doctor, please tell us what has happened to our dear dad. Will he live?’
The doctor said, ‘No, I don’t know that yet. I am still trying to open my bag as I have lost my key.”
Height of confidence!
A hypothetical situation where 20 CEOs board an airplane and are told that the flight they are about to take is the first ever to feature pilotless technology and it is an unmanned aircraft. Each one of the CEOs is then told, privately, that their company’s software is running the aircraft’s automatic pilot system. Nineteen of the CEOs promptly leave the aircraft, each offering a different excuse.
One CEO alone remains on board the jet, seeming very calm indeed. When asked why he is so confident in this first unmanned flight, he replies:
“If this is the same software that runs my company’s IT systems, this plane won’t even take off.”
No yellow: customer support
I had been doing Tech Support for Hewlett-Packard’s DeskJet division for about a month when I got a customer’s call with a problem I couldn’t solve. She could not print yellow. All the other colours would print fine, which truly baffled me because the only true colours are cyan, magenta, and yellow. For instance, green is a combination of cyan and yellow, but green printed fine.
Every colour of the rainbow printed fine except for yellow. I had the customer change ink cartridges. I had the customer delete
and reinstall the drivers. Nothing worked. I asked my co-workers for help; they offered no new ideas.
After over two hours of troubleshooting, I was about to tell the customer to send the printer to us for repair when she asked quietly,
‘Should I try printing on a piece of white paper, instead of this “yellow” construction paper?’
