After all, how hard can it be?
- TAGS:engineer, keyboard, mouse
- IT TOPICS:Hardware, Management
User stops at the desk of this pilot fish and informs him that the mouse and keyboard on the user's computer don't work.
"Knowing that several people, including him, had just swapped desks and moved their own computers, I told him that he must have plugged the keyboard and mouse in the wrong ports," fish says.
User's reply: "I'm an engineer. I think I'm more than capable of hooking up a computer."
So fish drops what he's working on and accompanies the engineer back to his desk -- where fish swaps the keyboard and mouse connectors and reboots the PC.
And suddenly, the keyboard and mouse work!
Says fish, "As we stood looking at each other, I asked him, 'Does this mean I'm qualified to engineer something?'"
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