Window vices Door ~
A woman customer called the Canon computer help desk reporting a problem with her printer.
Tech support: Are you running it under windows?
Customer:
'No, my desk is next to the door, but that is a good point. The man
sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his printer is
working fine.'
Who Is The Boss ~
Have you realised yet that computers are controlling more and more aspects of our lives? It is a genuine concern.
For
instance, if you've worked in a modern office building, you've
probably come across the ventilation problem: if you get hot, you can't
just open the window. You usually have to ask 'building services',
often in a call centre on the other side of the world, to turn up the
air conditioning via the building's computer system.
There
is now a company in New Zealand Will and Guy have been told who might
be rethinking their reliance on this type of computer control.
Mill St "Pak'n Save Supermarket" in Hamilton, New Zealand was supposed to be closed for Good Friday.
However,
it seems that no one told the Computer in charge of controlling the
shop, meaning that the doors were opened as normal on Friday morning
and the lights turned on, but without any staff being at work.
Naturally
the stock didn't stay on the shelves for long; but most of the
"customers" didn't go to the trouble of paying for it, although some
did, using the automated checkouts.
Maybe it's time to rethink how much power we give to our Computers.
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