This is part 6 retelling the end of CDFW's battles with his company's network demons. You can read about CDFW's travails in the CDFW arcs. Part 1 began this CDFW recounting his experiences with various routers and we learned in Part 2 that CDFW would rather work with routers than Microsoft Word.
We left CDFW with a non-operational router in Part 3 and discovered he could recite incantations in Part 4. Part 5 left him battling with evil wizards...
"When I reached the end of my rope, I told {the boss} I was out of stuff to try and reminded him I never claimed or wanted to be a network guy. He got perturbed (not at me) and allowed as how the original guy would have to make it work or take his equipment and not get paid. I heard how much the bill was, and I just shook my head. Jeez, I wish they would sometimes just ask me a few questions before they buy this s**t."{The boss} insisted we were going to pull the phone people in and they would fix it or they would do without their money. I sighed. I knew it would be another waste of time. But I could see there was no way around it. We called to set up the meeting, and they handed the phone to me to explain what wasn't working.
"I explained it again."
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