Posts by Hot Diggity 63 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jun 2016
I read that as
The Boss is peeing over my shoulder
which gave an interesting slant to the rest of the tale.
My bugbear is progress indicators that show 100%. If it's 100% then the update is finished and the device should be either rebooting or now available for use not still showing the progress indicator
The problem is that sometimes they baffle me.
Genuine question that a company I once worked for was asked by auditors - Do you have TCP?
After a very long pause wondering why this would ever be asked - Yes
The person asking just had no idea at all what questions would have been relevant to ask or how they should be worded.
We have annual audits and yes, attempting to baffle them is the only enjoyable part of that process.
There is always another question to answer.
After a while, I extend my response time to add long as possible knowing that the due date for the audit completion is coming up and they need to submit their findings by that date.
It's a great day when HR contracts mention namagenemt instead of management. Especially when an AI audio bot has to attempt to pronounce it.
Some of the servers I look after do a lot of swapping. I didn't realise that there were two kinds. Namagenemt may wonder about the increase of swapping entered into my timesheets from now on.
I seem to recall that The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy had a pair of glasses that became opaque at the first sign of danger.
Not conducive to a long life span, but then everything these days seems to be bad for us.
Doh, I have sat on my tinfoil hat and there is a large crease in it. Anyone know if that affects it's ability to block, well, everything?
A couple of old decommissioned servers went missing from storage at a company I used to work for.
One of the staff (Let's call him Bob) )okingly suggested that we check eBay for them.
Another employee took him up on his suggestion and found them there being sold by a user alias that was obviously Bob's.
Bob in the meantime was frantically trying to remove them from eBay.
It took him about another year to find a new job.
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