Reply to post: Re: LESS IMAGINATIVE, MORE FALLOUT

Let's talk about April Fools' Day jokes. Are they ever really harmless?

J.G.Harston Silver badge

Re: LESS IMAGINATIVE, MORE FALLOUT

Years 'n' years ago, I set up a small suite of PCs, and as they were being used by dozens of different people, all sharing the same logon, they were set up with the environment fairly locked down, specifically, the desktop layout was rebuilt from scratch on startup.

The bloody idiots insisted on saving files on the desktop, and raised hell that they weren't there next time they used the machines. I disabled the rebuild-at-startup and a few days later was passing and noticed all the machines had their desktops covered in *everybody's* crap. I have come to believe that some people are just simply missing the bit of brain that allows you to notice the existence of other people using shared resources.

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