Thursday Jan 31, 2008

One of the most nightmarish experiences for a support engineer is when you have a hysterical customer yelling at you on one end on a possible bug while the sustaining/dev team asks for a reproducible case on the other !  At first, I used to get frustrated ( in my previous job with a different company as a support engineer) but slowly started to get used to it and understood that for a developer, his/her code is never at fault!  ;-) 

Now that I don't face the customer song anymore directly, I can look back at it with a smile.  The Dilbertian view of the the process that we support engineers had is best captured by the song from Melanie's blog

 "
Tell them it's a feature,

Say it's not supported

Change the documentation

Blame it on the hardware

Find a way around it

Say they need an upgrade

Reinstall the software

Ask for a dump!

Run with the debugger

Try to reproduce it

Ask them how they did it, and

See if they can do it again."

I am sure every support engineer has a classical Dilbertian experience and if you happen to be one, do share it! 

Ah!  Developers!!
 

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