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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bob</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="boat-anchor.html" title="boat anchor"/><link rel="next" href="bodge.html" title="bodge"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bob</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="boat-anchor.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bodge.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bob"/><dt xmlns="" id="bob"><b>bob</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> At <a href="http://www.demon.net/" target="_top"> Demon Internet</a>, all
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tech support personnel are called “<span class="quote">Bob</span>”. (Female support
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personnel have an option on “<span class="quote">Bobette</span>”). This has nothing to
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do with Bob the divine drilling-equipment salesman of the
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<a href="../C/Church-of-the-SubGenius.html"><i class="glossterm">Church of the SubGenius</i></a>. Nor is it acronymized from “<span class="quote">Brother Of
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<a href="BOFH.html"><i class="glossterm">BOFH</i></a></span>”, though all parties agree it could have
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been. Rather, it was triggered by an unusually large draft of new
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tech-support people in 1995. It was observed that there would be much
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duplication of names. To ease the confusion, it was decided that all
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support techs would henceforth be known as “<span class="quote">Bob</span>”, and identity
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badges were created labelled “<span class="quote">Bob 1</span>” and “<span class="quote">Bob 2</span>”.
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(“<span class="quote">No, we never got any further</span>” reports a witness).</p><p>The reason for “<span class="quote">Bob</span>” rather than anything else is due to
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a <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a> calling and asking to speak to
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“<span class="quote">Bob</span>”, despite the fact that no “<span class="quote">Bob</span>” was
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currently working for Tech Support. Since we all know “<span class="quote">the customer
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is always right</span>”, it was decided that there had to be at least one
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“<span class="quote">Bob</span>” on duty at all times, just in case.</p><p>This sillyness snowballed inexorably. Shift leaders and managers
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began to refer to their groups of “<span class="quote">bobs</span>”. Whole ranks of
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support machines were set up (and still exist in the DNS as of 1999) as
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bob1 through bobN. Then came <tt class="systemitem">alt.tech-support.recovery</tt>, and it was filled
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with Demon support personnel. They all referred to themselves, and to
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others, as “<span class="quote">bob</span>”, and after a while it caught on. There is
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now a <a href="http://bob.bob.bofh.org/~giolla/bobcode.html" target="_top"> Bob
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Code</a> describing the Bob nature.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="boat-anchor.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bodge.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">boat anchor </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bodge</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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