toilet paper....on the FLOOR?
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techrecoveryIn response to an earlier post--or at least, the responses to that post--I have a loverly story to share from the last company I did phone support for.
This happened back in nineteen (mumble mumble) when a computer mouse still had a ball. The company in question occupied the 4th through 7th floors of a rather large building that also housed a bank.
One night, someone took all the mouse balls from two floors and flushed them down a toilet. This caused the toilet to backup and overflow and the water ran down the hall into an electrical closet, which just happened to be over an electrical closet, which just happened to be over an electrical closet...
...and shorted out the entire building.
After the mouse ball incident, you had to sign out a ball for your mouse when you came into work. This had to be returned at the end of your shift and you signed the mouse back in.
Not to be outdone, here's another mouse story:
In a hospital I worked for, we had a large community of nurses from the Philippines. Our administrative director (the only member of admin who really did anything over there) set them up with a computer, DSL, and Skype so they could stay in communication with their families back home.
One of the nurses called me one day and said the mouse had gone bad. I told her to bring me the bad one and I'd give her a replacement.
One the way out for a smoke, I met the nurse in the hallway. She said they'd picked up a new mouse already, so I didn't need to give them a new one, but here was the old one because I had asked for it. At this, she handed me a plastic grocery bag with the mouse in it. I took the mouse and continued to the smoking porch...
Where someone asked me what was in the bag. "Dead mouse," I said.
And everyone gave me the weirdest look.
This happened back in nineteen (mumble mumble) when a computer mouse still had a ball. The company in question occupied the 4th through 7th floors of a rather large building that also housed a bank.
One night, someone took all the mouse balls from two floors and flushed them down a toilet. This caused the toilet to backup and overflow and the water ran down the hall into an electrical closet, which just happened to be over an electrical closet, which just happened to be over an electrical closet...
...and shorted out the entire building.
After the mouse ball incident, you had to sign out a ball for your mouse when you came into work. This had to be returned at the end of your shift and you signed the mouse back in.
Not to be outdone, here's another mouse story:
In a hospital I worked for, we had a large community of nurses from the Philippines. Our administrative director (the only member of admin who really did anything over there) set them up with a computer, DSL, and Skype so they could stay in communication with their families back home.
One of the nurses called me one day and said the mouse had gone bad. I told her to bring me the bad one and I'd give her a replacement.
One the way out for a smoke, I met the nurse in the hallway. She said they'd picked up a new mouse already, so I didn't need to give them a new one, but here was the old one because I had asked for it. At this, she handed me a plastic grocery bag with the mouse in it. I took the mouse and continued to the smoking porch...
Where someone asked me what was in the bag. "Dead mouse," I said.
And everyone gave me the weirdest look.
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Date: 2008-08-20 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-20 05:52 am (UTC)winpopup is your friend
Date: 2008-08-20 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-20 07:02 am (UTC)...After three weeks of us complaining about the weird smell in the elevator shaft, prospective first floor tenants discovered the issue. For some strange reason, they didn't sign the lease.
(OP as it happened! (http://taleya.livejournal.com/431092.html))
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Date: 2008-08-20 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-20 10:55 am (UTC)Not that original, in retrospect, but it was kind of cool at the time.
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Date: 2008-08-20 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-20 01:23 pm (UTC)Or is that what lab techs are for?
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Date: 2008-08-20 01:24 pm (UTC)They'd be better off requiring people to sign in and out of the loo.
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Date: 2008-08-20 03:38 pm (UTC)Woah XD
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Date: 2008-08-20 05:19 pm (UTC)Another was to set a *.wav file in the "runonce" line. Infuriating for anyone who had set the sound schema to silent.
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Date: 2008-08-20 10:26 pm (UTC)