FLICKR INFRASTRUCTURE: Technician at work---during his vacation! (20030929_002)
Here we see a Flickr technician doing some emergency work for a person at a campground out west. A woman, vacationing in her motor home at this campground, suffered the worst of all possible setbacks: her Wi-Fi connection failed during an intense Flickr surfing session. By sheer coincidence, this Flickr employee was also on vacation AT THE SAME CAMPGROUND and happened to overhear the moaning and crying emanating from the woman's motor home. He walked over to see if he could help. The woman, disheveled and foaming at the mouth, was beside herself because her surf was no longer "up" (a technical phrase meaning her Internet connection had been severed). As is typical of the Flickr service cadre, he volunteered his free time to aid the suffering surfer. In this photo he is adding a software patch to the woman's laptop computer, which allowed her to resume her surfing before she became catatonic from withdrawal.
Later, she asked the technician in to her mobile abode for "a drink and [DELETED]." A few hours after that, the campground host saw the technician leave the motor home, with a facial expression and a wobbly demeanor that suggested "service above and beyond the call of duty." Later he was awarded the Distinguished Service Mousepad for his dedication.
FLICKR INFRASTRUCTURE: Technician at work---during his vacation! (20030929_002)
Here we see a Flickr technician doing some emergency work for a person at a campground out west. A woman, vacationing in her motor home at this campground, suffered the worst of all possible setbacks: her Wi-Fi connection failed during an intense Flickr surfing session. By sheer coincidence, this Flickr employee was also on vacation AT THE SAME CAMPGROUND and happened to overhear the moaning and crying emanating from the woman's motor home. He walked over to see if he could help. The woman, disheveled and foaming at the mouth, was beside herself because her surf was no longer "up" (a technical phrase meaning her Internet connection had been severed). As is typical of the Flickr service cadre, he volunteered his free time to aid the suffering surfer. In this photo he is adding a software patch to the woman's laptop computer, which allowed her to resume her surfing before she became catatonic from withdrawal.
Later, she asked the technician in to her mobile abode for "a drink and [DELETED]." A few hours after that, the campground host saw the technician leave the motor home, with a facial expression and a wobbly demeanor that suggested "service above and beyond the call of duty." Later he was awarded the Distinguished Service Mousepad for his dedication.