TeXnicer wrote in Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:25 am:Gosh, this was so simple, you could have written: "Have your tried turn it on?". XD
I have nearly have had that issue.
More than a decade ago I was working in a warehouse. We had different areas for different activities:
- Unpacking incoming shipments and bringing items to the production areas of the small factory, or preparing them to be stored in the warehouse.
- Receiving and preparing items from the production for storage
- Picking ordered items for shipping
- Packing smaller packages and smaller domestic orders
- Packing larger packages, like pallets and long wood crates
Items could be could weigh anything between nearly nothing at all to 250 kg (500 lb) and be up to nearly 15 m long (I thing the longest wood crate we shipped was about 14 m, about 45 ft, nailed together from three long ones and some 1x4 in board).
In the area for packing smaller packages (up to 25 kg, about 50 lb) we had four packing benches, each with some shipping boxes, stuffing, a computer, a scale, and the item actually relevant for this whole story: A label printer for the shipping labels.
Now, one of these printers had been out of service for about a week, but thankfully this was in the low season, in essence in middle of the summer, when most Swedes are on vacation, (which probably also is why none of the more senior colleagues had done anything about it). After I had enough I took the time to try restarting the computer it was connected to, checking if the power cord was connected etc. Finally I decided to ask for the phone number to have it serviced.
The service guy arrived the next day after a 3-4 hour drive. Quite apparently I had missed checking something important, as the first thing he did was to
push the power connector all the way into the socket. According to him it was not all that rare, which is why it was the first thing he would try.
I did not get yelled at by anyone, but it was quite embarrassing, in particular since it would be all that guy did that day.