More Phones to Break

I got in to work today to the surprise news that five of us were going
straight to training in XYZ phones, for a special project - 16 boxes
of the things to be repaired and refurbed ASAP, expected to take 4-5
days, for mobile provider Orange.

There's a reason you probably don't recognize the XYZ brand. These are
the knockoff phones from China. They're cheap, reasonably sturdy for
the price; the software is crap and they need to fire their English
translators. There are four workstations normally dedicated to XYZ
phones, on the 'mixed' line, compared to 20-55 techs with room for
about 5 more on the usual line. (For this temporary project, we're
working from our usual workstations and just running over to the XYZ
area to software update.)

Oddly enough, Orange has re-named all the phones. So the XYZ Atlas is
the Sydney when it's sold to Orange. I guess a company like Orange
obviously has very high standards when it comes to names.

Interestingly, there is no level 3 for XYZ. We're it. They gave us all
level-3 logins so we can exchange the main boards in the phones if
needed; I could feel the rush of pure power.