I hate bright orange stickers and marketing

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

At some point, several years ago, some bright spark who does not work in techsupport decided that every desktop in the organisation should sport a neon orange sticker with the techsupport number.

This has meant that when staff don't have enough brain cells to remember that anyone else exists, their eyes are inevitably drawn to the orange blaze, leading to calls like this:

Them: I called $SomeoneCompletelyUnrelated a couple of days ago, and they were going to do X for me.

Me: (pauses, waiting for the relevance)

Them: Hello?

Me: ...and did that other, completely unrelated person or team do whatever it was they were going to do for you?

Them: I don't know!

Me: Thought of calling them to find out?

I swear, if I ever find out who had the bright idea of those stickers, their home phone will become the new star of "for a good time, call..." graffiti.

games!

[thecolorblue.livejournal.com]

hi everybody. this is kind of off topic, so i apologize. however, i thought some of you might be interested. i just put a lot of effort into this journal entry listing many PC games that were released in 2005. comments/additions welcome.

again, sorry this is off topic but, since i spent so much time on compiling it, i thought other people should have access to it.

I work for a bubblegum-and-coathanger operation.

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

I got called today to come take a look at the accounting file/printserver. Hike up there, the accts. manager is standing in front of it, and asks me why it's not working. Screen is dark, no noises are coming from the case.

I reach out and press the power button. Cue bootup of the machine, and the accts. manager freaking out that it should never be turned off.

(Said server is an old 386 with monochrome monitor, btw.)