New Microsoft Certification ---- MCDST

[assemblage]

There is a hot new Microsoft Certification, the MCDST. Thats the Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician! With this highly technical certification you too can work on the phone providing technical customer support for Windows environments!

I know in my locality there is a company who provides such service and pays employees $6-7 an hour. With the MSCST certification you are sure to get the upper range of salary ($7/hr). Those wages are so much better than a back of the house restaurant empolyee or after hours janitor and it's much easier on the feet! And, don't forget... Customers are always pleasant to talk to after losing data, working through mutiple layers of phonebots, and waiting on hold for 15 minutes.

GET YOUR MCDST TODAY!!!

 

[Sunner]

Yay!

 

[Goosemaster]

LOL

That's literally a Death Certificate.

 

[drokk]

Sends shivers down my back!

 

[Sunner]

Maybe they should send their admins on a course...seems like whatever loadbalancer they're using isn't doing too great a job.
I can access it from one site, but not from two others.

 

[assemblage]

I heard rhumor that MS is offering the Indian government 75% off training materials and exam fees!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

A certfication for the phrase "reinstall windows." L33t!

 

[Sunner]

Don't forget to check the power cable before you reinstall!

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Sunner
Don't forget to check the power cable before you reinstall!

My favorite trick is to take a pair of wire clippers and cut off one of the prongs to the power cable then plug it into the wall.

Oh ya.

AND switch the power supply to 230 volts mode.

Then I watch them twitch. Never a simple video card or cpu upgrade be more entertaining.

Then for flavor I throw in a few:
"Well it worked before!"
"What did you do to the computer?"
"Are you sure you know what your doing?"
"Do you have someone you can call or something?"
(then pull the power switch plug out of the motherboard when they aren't looking)
"Is that wire suppose to be hooked up or something?"

If I feel like being a nice guy I'll point out that the switch is switched to european voltages. (After about a hour or so.)

Of course this doesn't work as well over the phone, but if your creative you can keep them on the line for a long time. Of course I almost begin to feel guilty when they start crying... (almost)

(just remember when they find out the plug has been rigged, you want to make sure that they aren't between you and the door)

 

[civad]

The girl in the pic on the M$ site looks as perplexed as the users themselves.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: civad
The girl in the pic on the M$ site looks as perplexed as the users themselves.

Ya she does. Probably thinking "Why is my neck hurting so much?". Which is what I was thinking most of the time during my breif stint as a phone tech operator.

Of course the answer is: "Because your continually flexing the muscles in your back and neck spasmaticly while you fantasize about doing very mean and creative things to 3/4's of the people and their computers you have to deal with"

Arghh.

She also looks kinda like a cross-bred between a human and E.T.-style alien.

In that case she could possibly thinking. "Phone Tech phone home" over and over again, then subconciously pointing towards her sub-leased studio apartment 15 blocks away with a glowing finger, while never knowing exactly why.

 

[LiLithTecH]

assemblage wrote:

I heard rhumor that MS is offering the Indian government 75% off training materials and exam fees!

It isn't a rumor.

MS GAVE (as in for Free) them the SOURCE to Windows along with other items.
India & China were threatening to go OPEN SOURCE, so this was Bill's way of
keeping them onboard.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: LiLithTecH
assemblage wrote:

I heard rhumor that MS is offering the Indian government 75% off training materials and exam fees!

It isn't a rumor.

MS GAVE (as in for Free) them the SOURCE to Windows along with other items.
India & China were threatening to go OPEN SOURCE, so this was Bill's way of
keeping them onboard.

Yep. It's kinda ironic, MS said on a couple occasions that depending on opensource software was a security risk. Also during the trials (I beleive) they used the reasoning that they could disclose the source and how things worked to other companies because it would possibly be a national security risk since so much of the government's computers depended on windows software for classified stuff.

Then of course China refused to do business without access to the source code, so MS gave it to them.

 

[Smilin]

Here comes the MS FUD twins again.

Like MS was going to actually lose any money in China..."What? You're going to start using Linux instead of CDs from Pirate Chin's CD stamping factory??? But we'll lose $1.75 EVERY YEAR!!!!"

 

[Nocturnal]

Is this certification comparable to A+? So April is the set date for when the regular public will be allowed to test for this?

 

[LiLithTecH]

Originally posted by: Smilin
Here comes the MS FUD twins again.

Like MS was going to actually lose any money in China..."What? You're going to start using Linux instead of CDs from Pirate Chin's CD stamping factory??? But we'll lose $1.75 EVERY YEAR!!!!"

Wow!

Now the FACTS are MS FUD.
Spoken like a true Gates Follower/Workerbee.

Heres a bit of reading you may enjoy (or not).

Source of Worry for Microsoft

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