A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment. Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position and course to steer to the airport.
The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, drew a hand-written sign, and held it in the helicopter's window.
The pilot's sign read: "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window.
Their sign read "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."
The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the co-pilot asked the pilot how the "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position. The pilot responded: "I knew that had to be the MICROSOFT building because, similar to their help-lines, they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."
2 comments:
Pretty damn funny, that.
'Course the folks in redmond aren't actually in sky-scrapers, but their tech support is definitely a match for this punchline.
..although I've had them tell me shit that isn't even technically correct.
Well if you were stuck, working in a godawful hen-cage as a helpline operator for minimum wage, I guess you wouldn't be too bothered about the quality of your responses. I'm amazed if I ever get anything vaguely correct from them.
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