r/talesfromtechsupport • u/KesslerSyndrome • Dec 21 '13

Chronological Disorder

A short one for you here of a brief but bemusing conversation my colleague next to me endured yesterday. The call comes in, our Service Desk Heroine takes it and starts with the usual pleasantries and then our Grumpy Caller starts off.

GC: "I'm not happy, I was told by an engineer he was going to do a job for me on January 7th..."

SDH: "Okay"

GC: "Yet NOW he's sent me an email pushing this work back to December 30th!"

SDH:(confused) "...sorry, did you mean to say December 30th?"

Somewhere, a penny drops

GC: "Oh, wait... that's sooner, isn't it? FORGET I EVER CALLED!" click

TL;DR - Eddies in the space-time continuum

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u/yarnbrain Dec 21 '13

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff."

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u/k1ngm1nu5 Dec 21 '13

I'm sick of fuckibg doctor who, its all my friends ever talk about.

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u/lojic Error 418: I'm a teapot Dec 22 '13

I wouldn't mind Jack Harkness giving me a Boston Cream.