{"id":137990634,"date":"2025-11-20T21:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=137990634"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:00:55","slug":"your-call-is-important-to-us-so-thank-you-for-your-impatience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/your-call-is-important-to-us-so-thank-you-for-your-impatience\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Call is Important to Us So Thank You for Your (im)Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/2025-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Brewer<\/a>? You give a retired technical writer, one old enough to remember when internet trolls thought telling n00bs to &#8220;Format C:\\&#8221; was great sport, a prompt like &#8220;write an explanation poem&#8221; and this is the result. You want real technical help, like &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/for-once\/\" title=\"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em - For Once\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How do I answer my Samsung phone from the lock screen?<\/a>&#8221; this is the wrong post. Click the link.<\/p>\n<h2>Customer Support<\/h2>\n<pre class=\"poem\">\r\nFirst, you\u2019ll press the power button. That\r\nalmost perfect circle \u2013 yes, the one that\u2019s giving you \r\nthe middle finger just for thinking that you could\u2014\r\nyes, there you go. Now wait. And count to ten\r\nno? It\u2019s the proverbial \u201cwatched pot.\u201d Look away. \r\n\r\nNow, go get coffee. A sluggish old PC might\r\nbenefit from liberal application of caffeine.\r\nAsk me how I know. I\u2019m a pro.\r\nJust pour it in between the letters H and O\r\nand T. It should be hot. Hear it sizzle?\r\n\r\nNo? Let\u2019s troubleshoot the thing.\r\nGrab another cup of joe\u2014this time for you\u2014\r\nwe\u2019ll have another go at this. Rinse\r\nthe unit, and repeat. Now what do you see\r\nupon the screen? It\u2019s black? Not blue?\r\n\r\nAhh, the blue is you, you say. The thing\r\nwon\u2019t do the things you want it to. \r\nPerhaps we can repurpose it\u2014I hear\r\nthat Frisbee golf is all the rage, and they\r\naccept the odd, misshapen parallelogram\u2014\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s that, you say? Rectangular\u2014I see.\r\nMy Supervisor\u2019s busy helping others but\r\nyour call\u2019s of paramount importance to our company\r\nI\u2019ll transfer you, just count to three. \r\nOur AI ChatBot\u2019s more prepared for this than me.\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life&#8217;s too short for bad hold music. An &#8220;explanation&#8221; poem NOT to be taken as serious technical support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137990635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[2725,2752,2738],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-137990634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-technical-how-to","category-writing","tag-poetry","tag-prompt","tag-satire"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 18:34:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137990634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137990636,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990634\/revisions\/137990636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137990635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137990634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137990634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137990634"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=137990634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}