[Dorothy]

Sounds like someone had a run in with higher management today.....

Hmm... perhaps... (how did you know?)

Our resident computer fixer is out with 6 heart bypasses and so I (assistant computer fixer) had a busy day yesterday. It was like those video games where there are these people breaking stuff, and you have to run around and try to fix everything before the building burns down. Fun fun fun.

This post has been edited by Dorothy: 11 January 2006 - 01:37 PM

[Laughlyn]

Standard office politics. The higher up the chain of command you go the less able you become with the most basic of company resources. It's probably linked to the huge wages cutting off all logical thoughts in the brain. That's why all management types have personal assistants.

EDIT:- Oh and Dorothy, most companies use a key press logging system, so hiding your text won't save you if you're active at work.....

This post has been edited by Laughlyn: 11 January 2006 - 01:44 PM

[Dorothy]

I seriously thought about revoking everyone's computer privileges... I could steal them off of their desks, and pile them in a corner and sit on them and shoot thumbtacks at anyone who comes anywhere near me. Maybe they'll fire me.

I know, I was just hiding it so that anyone who is tired of hearing me complain about work can ignore it. Except you, of course. Everyone here already knows how I feel about them. Apparently I have an expressive face...

This post has been edited by Dorothy: 11 January 2006 - 01:55 PM

[Laughlyn]

A little extreme, but most techs tend to go a little haywire after a while. I'm sure once the digital age is fully upon us they'll generate a suicide rate only matched by Air traffic control.

EDIT:-Agressive face? I always thought that librarian look was very sweet. I suggest freaking them out a bit more by going to the coffee machine every 15 minutes (chuck the coffee on a plant or something), then start twitching madly and glaring at anyone who comes with 15 feet of you.....

This post has been edited by Laughlyn: 11 January 2006 - 02:02 PM

[Dorothy]

Nonsense! Its a perfectly reasonable solution to people who are actively trying to destroy their computers.
I have developed the habit of yelling things to myself as I walk down the hallway, and singing nonsense songs and then cueing someone else to join in by yelling "take it (name)", and hiding under my desk, and once I answered the phone and (unintentionally) said my name was "Easy." Honestly, some people just don't get it.

This post has been edited by Dorothy: 11 January 2006 - 02:10 PM

[ion eon]

Yes stop the whole mainframe. BURN THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Laughlyn]

A little extreme kiddo, if you burn the mainframe then you lose your job, good office sabotage involves making it look like you're really busy and gaining as much credit as possible whilst doing as little work as you can(and blaming someone else for the cockup in the process)

Nonsense! Its a perfectly reasonable solution to people who are actively trying to destroy their computers.

A perfectly reasonable solution would be to book yourself a weeks holiday and dump them in it. Make sure to call the office once in a while just to check how they're doing.

[ion eon]

NO BURN.......BBBBBBBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNN




:angel:

[Emu]

All of a sudden I like you better.

[ion eon]

SET FIRE TO THE WHOLE BUILDING WHILE YOU"RE AT IT

Then, in the ash of the burnt building, draw Felix...with demon horns.

[Dorothy]

Now you're just being silly. Everyone knows if you set fire to your workplace you should draw Gossamer in the ashes.

A little extreme kiddo, if you burn the mainframe then you lose your job, good office sabotage involves making it look like you're really busy and gaining as much credit as possible whilst doing as little work as you can(and blaming someone else for the cockup in the process)

Who would do something like that?!?

A perfectly reasonable solution would be to book yourself a weeks holiday and dump them in it. Make sure to call the office once in a while just to check how they're doing.

I actually almost did that, but it would've been next week, and I probably can't.

This post has been edited by Dorothy: 11 January 2006 - 02:20 PM

[ion eon]

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNN IT TO THE GROUND

[Laughlyn]

I actually almost did that, but it would've been next week, and I probably can't.

Well then you'll just have to complement yourself on wastig office time by posting on message boards.

Or you could go down the dark path of sys-admins and see exactly how much you can abuse your new position.....

*Crystal ball moment; In an estimated 2 minutes, Ion Eon will post a one sentance reply on this topic*

[Dorothy]

BUUUUUUUURRRRRRNNNNNNNNN!!!!

The Dark Side does sound intriguing...

[Laughlyn]

Oh don't you start.....

Thought the darkside may seem tempting, bear in mind that ultimately you'll end up as some kind of crazy office hermit, living behind a desk stacked with technical manuals, sleeping in the server room, and refusing to east anything but yellow M&M's (which must have been painstakingly aquired from the vending machines). You'll have to think up progressively evilier plans too, then one day you'll wake up surrounded by the smell of burning silicon, and you'll realise that you really have pyroed all the PC's in the building.


Oh fuck it, just burn the building down and be done with it.