Squeaky Voiced Teen: "I demand closure on that anecdote!"

[samwize.livejournal.com]

For those who asked, the end of the conversation with the boss's daughter went like:

"Well, we've got this old Windows 98 machine and my dad said to just clean it off and reinstall windows on it so I thought I'd uninstall windows and then reinstall it."

"Ok..[explains how to wipe and reinstall windows]. What was your second question?"

"Where can I find a copy of windows 98?"


Today she asked, "Soooo... If I installed Windows 98 First Edition but used the second edition key, would that be bad?"

"Why, what's going on?"

"It's giving me this weird blue screen thing."

*sigh*

Strongbad Email #152

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

Strongbad Email #152

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail152.html


I loved the hold music...

(no subject)

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Now if I could only get mistaken for a cab driver, I might be able to escape this life of shame

Hey, if you're paying for it....

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

I'm paid hourly, and in the California Republic, when you hit 8 hours in a day, you start pulling overtime.

So with less than 30 minutes left, the company president comes up to me and tells me to drop everything, the VP will be sending me some images that need to be posted on the company website ASAP.  This is Top Priority, Code Blue, DEFCON 1.

So I sit at my desk waiting...  and waiting...

And then I see the VP head out the door, get in his car and drive away.  WTF?

I go to check with the president, but he's left too.

Hello?   If it's so damn important, why did you just leave?  You are aware that I'm just going to sit here twiddling my fingers pulling Time and a Half until you return or until the office is totally empty, right?

(no subject)

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

We have dispatches. When there's something wrong and the best phone monkey technology falls short, we send out a tech to see what's wrong. These techs are highly specialized (read: They don't know what a mouse is) but in many places on the east coast, they're heavily unionized. For those of you who have no experience with unions (about %90 of the American workforce now), that means that if they see a thing unplugged, and it's not in their job description to troubleshoot that item, they'll leave it unplugged.( continuing the lesson in broad economics )

Why I Need to Trade Jobs with This Woman

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Ever have someone say something so outrageously retarded you just can't come up with a response?

Conversation between myself (still Tier 1 god damnit) and a Tier 2 rep:

Me: When testing this gentleman's black/whitelist entries, regardless of whether "*@gmail.com" is listed in the blacklist or whitelist, the correct behavior is observed when a new email is generated and sent. It gets rejected if gmail is blacklisted and allowed through with the appropriate scoring information in the header if whitelisted. If I send a reply, however, the black/whitelist settings are ignored and the mail isn't even scored.

T2: Interesting. Is the mail that isn't being scored plain text, rich text or HTML?

Me: ... plain text; I'm essentially forwarding a rejection notice (standard 550 message refused type thing). The header on the whitelisted email also does not identify any HTML content in the message (which our product would do by default).

T2: Wait, now that I think about it it has to be HTML because you're using a browser to look at it.

Me: ..... *head explodes*