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No! I always loved browsing the isles at Fry’s, awesome memories. I’d been asking the network engineers at my employer to set up a rack of routers and for mont
by zxcvbn4038 6y ago
No! I always loved browsing the isles at Fry’s, awesome memories.
I’d been asking the network engineers at my employer to set up a rack of routers and for months and the response was always no, too busy, can’t get parts, etc. So I bought a bunch of $2 Ethernet cards and a passive hub from Fry’s, wired it up with bright red Ethernet cable, told them I had a network now so they could take off. Four hours later a guy comes by with a hand cart full of the unobtainable routers and is ready to install.
Another memorable tale from Fry’s - one of my peers bought a CPU and managed to smoke it first try. He returned it to Fry’s and picked another off the shelf, got home - it was the same CPU. He returned it again, got another CPU off the shelf, got home - same CPU again. Third time he went and got a CPU off the shelf first then returned the old one, and was then able to go home and finish his server build.
- meowster 6y agoThey processed the return and shelved it faster than he could walk from customer service to the shelf? They had CPUs sitting on the shelf for anyone to grab? Fun story, but maybe your coworker was pulling your leg?