The first tech support person you talk to. Their job is to prevent most callers from talking to people with a clue, as opposed to a person with a handbook of generic resolutions to obvious problems.

The best way to get past a phone firewall is to demonstrate more of a clue than the person whose job it is to stand between you and the guru who is, at the moment, rather busy programming his LEGO Mindstorms.

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