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As we SilverSurfers know, sometimes we have trouble with our computers.
I had a problem yesterday, so I called Georgie, the 11 year old next door, whose bedroom looks like Mission Control and asked him to come over.
Georgie clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem.
As he was walking away, I called after him, "So, what was wrong?"

He replied, "It was an ID ten T error."
I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired,
"An, ID ten T error? What's that? In case I need to fix it again."
Georgie grinned ..."Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?"
"No", I replied.
"Write it down, he said and I think you'll figure it out."
So I wrote down:
"ID10T"
I used to like Georgie, that little %#@***&^ head.
 
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Burlman,

That has nothing to do with age. I used to do tech support and teach tech support for one of the top computer manufacturers. I know of one instance where a phone tech wrote that in the comments to the field service tech that went onsite. What the phone tech didn't know was the customer gets a copy of that paper from the field tech. Ive also seen it describe as a "problem between the chair and the keyboard".

He needs to brush up on his customer relationship skills if he wants to do support work as a carrer. As insider professional style jokes and descriptions wont fly outside.

Joe
 
In the tourist trade folks often want to know what they are seeing, imagine that. So questions like "what kind of bird is that?" are very common. I worked with one gnarly old captain who used to be a fisherman. He ran a very tight ship but DID NOT CARE FOR THE COMPANY OF TOURISTS! And was well known for chewin out some poor sea sick SOB who missed the head or failed to make the railing. He despised having non crewman "pesterin him over some damn bird in high seas" while he was piloting the boat.

One morning we were lashing down some kayaks for a group when one of the kids sheepishly walked up behind the captain and waited. He nearly ran the boy over when he turned, kid looked at him and quietly asked "what kind of bird is that"? Panic set in as I envisioned that 6'4" frame looming over this little city kid who was already scared to death a bear was gonna eat him........and now one WAS before he even got out of port!

"It's a G.U. 11 kid now leave me alone" That was it! I Noticed the kid eyeing him sideways a couple of times on the way out. And as we were unloading the kayaks he snuck up next to the captain and said something I could not hear above the noise of unloading but I sure herd the thunder of laughter that came form the captain I had only seen smile once in 3 months! "That's right kid! You have a good time and dont get lost. I'll be right here when ya get back" and he gave him a slap on the back that nearly knocked him off his feet. I asked when were under way enough to relax a bit "Little %$#&er walked up and said 'You sure thats not a B. 1 R. D. old man'?"!!!
 
Funny

In our shop the problem with the boat was an IO problem, idiot operator. Not inboard/outboard as most thought.
 
Ahhhh. ID Ten Tango. HAHA. I love these acronym games. Reminds me of the papa uniform fifty five yankee form. Can't forget sending the newbie to find the military bearing grease, a bucket of steam (I actually had someone accomplish this) :eek:, HT punch, BM punch, crank down the mast, and frequency tape. These are just the ones I can remember right now. :wink:

Jason
 
Slightly different but, When I was an apprentice we used to get sent to the site stores for:
"a long stand"... the store keeper was supposed to say "yeah, in a minute, just wait there" then after 15-20 minutes or so he'd ask "have you had a long enough stand yet kid?":laugh: & send you back to your journeyman!
Some of us were wise to this however & would just go to the canteen have coffee etc visit friends on the site, for an hour or more! Don't know if they ever caught on to our little dodge!
Another favourite was the for the new kid to be sent to get "a can of tartan paint". Being a bit of a smart a** I found a number of opened cans, mixed an amount from each them into one can & took them back. When asked "what the heck???" (A muddy mess) I said "whadya expect?.. it's wet...the colours must have run!"
I din't get caught out too often :wink:
David
 
jasontg99 said:
Ahhhh. ID Ten Tango. HAHA. I love these acronym games. Reminds me of the papa uniform fifty five yankee form. Can't forget sending the newbie to find the military bearing grease, a bucket of steam (I actually had someone accomplish this) :eek:, HT punch, BM punch, crank down the mast, and frequency tape. These are just the ones I can remember right now. :wink:

Jason
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We use to make the motor sergeant mad by always sending the newbies for a set of spark plugs for the M577 track vehicles. The other thing we would send them after was a bucket of grid squares. We had a lot of fun at the expense of those wanting to impress and excel. Very few of them would excel at common sense.
 
In CAP (Civil Air Patrol) if you are on a mission training or other, and you get injured the ground team leader is required to fill out a report commonly called a ID10T form.
 
jasontg99 said:
Ahhhh. ID Ten Tango. HAHA. I love these acronym games. Reminds me of the papa uniform fifty five yankee form. Can't forget sending the newbie to find the military bearing grease, a bucket of steam (I actually had someone accomplish this) :eek:, HT punch, BM punch, crank down the mast, and frequency tape. These are just the ones I can remember right now. :wink:

Jason
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Don' forget the Mail Buoy, Port List, or the fallopian tubes
 
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