Darth Homer Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 Well, my day balanced itself out nicely... This morning I go to work (tech support for local supermarket chain for those who don't know/remember). It was going fairly smoothly until we got a call form the store's HQ saying that they are going to reboot every single store's main server at the same time. To add insult to injury, they did it right at lunch time...one of the busiest periods (also note, that this is on a Saturday, the busiest day). Rebooting the servers cause the store's ability to take such things as debit cards, credit cards, & checks go down the tubes (read: CASH ONLY sales). So, all 1400 stores or so call at the same time...we were answering calls as fast as we could for 2 hours (there were about 10 of us on staff at the time). I, probably took as many calls in a 2 hour span as I would all weekend normally. So, to recap, morning = bad Now, to make up for that, I decided to head out to the local music festival (the 3 Rivers Music Fest) which is winding up today. Well, I picked a good day. Checking the schedule, I saw that the two bands at the end of the day on the rock stage were The Donnas and Queens of the Stonage! After a few local bands and lesser knowns, the Donnas came on and gave a pretty good show, they had a few technical issues, so it wasn't as good as it could have been...and after they were done, on come Queens of the Stoneage (who said that we were the last stop on their US tour) . These guys just straight out, ****s-to-the-walls rock! Unfortuneatly, no Dave Grohl, but that didn't slow 'em down any...they actually stopped in the middle of No One Knows to get a hurt fan out of the small mosh pit that had formed. So, to recap, evening = great All-in-all, it was a good day. Oh, and I'm gonna go out and get QotSA's album now...my god that was awesome...still can't really hear very well... :D:D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 WELL hope you enjoyed your day because i didn't did **** all today:mad: :mad: AHHHH!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannibal Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 The Donnas!!!! *whistles* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetorian Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 Originally posted by Darth Homer Well, my day balanced itself out nicely... This morning I go to work (tech support for local supermarket chain for those who don't know/remember)... So, all 1400 stores or so call at the same time... So, it's local, but it has 1400 stores...um...do you have a store on every corner??? And I know how you feel, I used to work for a supermarket and the same happened. Had to listen to customers yelling and complaining to no end. Most of the time, though, only the debit would go down, which was bad enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Homer Posted April 7, 2003 Author Share Posted April 7, 2003 ok, it's local as in the east coast local...it's not a nat'l chain, but stores range from Fla up to Maryland. Sorry for the confusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Groovy Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 Tune in for next week's episode of "The Real World" starring Darth Homer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Homer Posted April 7, 2003 Author Share Posted April 7, 2003 Originally posted by Darth Groovy Tune in for next week's episode of "The Real World" starring Darth Homer. Dude! And then Melissa went and like completely destroyed Steven's cd...I was like, whoa, and Steven was like YOU BITCH!!, and Melissa just ran...dude.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jediduo Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 At the store I work at, we weren't able to process any credit/debt transactions for the entire Christmas season (Day after Thanksgiving to December 26). We told the phone company that we were having problems, and they said (and I'm quoting) "No you're not. You can't be having problems. No one else is, so you're not." We were pretty mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetorian Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 Originally posted by Darth Homer ok, it's local as in the east coast local...it's not a nat'l chain, but stores range from Fla up to Maryland. Sorry for the confusion. ok, i was just curious hmm...that means I used to work for one of your competing stores, Publix At the store I work at, we weren't able to process any credit/debt transactions for the entire Christmas season (Day after Thanksgiving to December 26). We told the phone company that we were having problems, and they said (and I'm quoting) "No you're not. You can't be having problems. No one else is, so you're not." Customer service at its best! To quote Dogbert, "Dogbert's support line, how may I abuse you?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Homer Posted April 8, 2003 Author Share Posted April 8, 2003 I used to work for Publix too...the tech support I work for is just out-sourced, o it's not like I'm part of Food Lion (that's the chain) or anything...heck, I try to avoid going to them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetorian Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 We used to have food lion, but when they bought out kash n karry they change all the local food kittys (our nick name for them) to knk because knk had a better rep in our area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Homer Posted April 8, 2003 Author Share Posted April 8, 2003 yeah, we service the Knk's as well, except for the windows pc's with are handled by another co named Hannaford...we're never quite sure who takes care of certain issues with them... and our nickname for Food Lion is Food Demon (note: that is for all of us peons, mgmt doesn't really use that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy_dog no.3 Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 I've never heard of the above mentioned bands but I'm sure u had a good time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eets Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 I only recognized The Donnas courtesy of the movie "Ten Things I Hate About You", and I recognized Queens of the Stoneage from Dave Grohl. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jatt13 Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 yes, QotSA do rock. you're lucky you got to see them in concert. i wish i coulda, but their tour's not coming here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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