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Mouse problems... after being thumbtacked to the wall


A retail clothing chain based in San Francisco with buying offices in NYC. Shortly after getting new computers in the buying office, one of the buyers complained that the mouse didn't work on his new computer.

We sent him a new mouse - that again didn't work, and another one that again didn't work.

My boss decided that someone needed to fly to NYC in person and see what the problem was.

When I met the buyer he immediately started in about how the new monitor took up space on his desk - so in order to gain back desktop space he used a big push-pin thru the cable to pin the mouse to a cork-board when he wasn't using it and it always stopped working after that.

Thank you for the anonymous contribution