Overheard at the Clients Office #1

The client went with the cheaper option an went with the phone system proposed by their ISP. I'm on site to babysit the ISPs phone installers. At one point I suggest we just trunk their switch to ours, I'll match the VLANs to theirs, and we can avoid recabling since there's a lot of ports not labeled on the patch panel, and I'm not in the mood for cable tracing today.

So I have to keep going back a step, and eventually explain trunking.

ISP: So you're saying VLAN 2 here and VLAN 2 there will be the same?
me: Yes.
ISP: Hmmmmm......

There is a long pause where ISP Guy is turning his head back and forth between the two switches and in deep thought.  I'm not going to like whatever he has to say next, but morbid curiosity isn't going to allow me to just leave now.

ISP: No, that doesn't sound right at all.  That could never work.  Where did you come up with this ****.
me: OK, have it your way, I'll be over there catching up on emails.

The World Needs to Hear This one

Not my story, but an absolute classic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/3id2i5/well_thats_one_way_to_completely_disregard_our/

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