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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:06 PM
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Life imitates Office Space
My boss's boss is taking two guys that look like "the Bobs" from Office Space on an extensive tour of our building.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:07 PM
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Start gutting that fish and watch your red stapler...
..God that's a funny movie.
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disgruntella Donating Member (983 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:07 PM
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1. uh-oh.
If they come by your cubicle make sure to say "I'm a people person!" lol
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:10 PM
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2. They came into the server room while I was working on a big problem
I had to power-cycle a large server while they were there.

I went around to the back of the rack and pulled the power cord then plugged it back in so they wouldn't see me hit the power switch. My boss saw what I was doing and had to stifle a laugh.

"So, just what do you do around here anyway?"
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disgruntella Donating Member (983 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:18 PM
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3. at least they didn't ask about your "flair"
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:26 PM
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4. OS?
I can think of one that needs to be rebooted at least once a week.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:28 PM
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5. probably runs sql server 7 too
:evilgrin:
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:38 PM
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9. SQL Server 2000 on a cluster
Fibre Channel drives and gigait Ethernet connections. Works pretty well most of the time.

My company also runs a couple dozen Linux boxes with modPerl applications and MySQL.

Every system has its plusses and minuses.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:37 PM
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7. Windows 2000 Enterprise Edition
Needs to be rebooted maybe once every 6 months unless someone messes with it. The Service Pack 4 installer goobered it up. Now I'm running the uninstaller.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:37 PM
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8. ahh, never install an even-numbered service pack
ever. trust me.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:39 PM
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10. That was very true under Windows NT 4
The SPs have been pretty well behaved in 2000, except this one.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:52 PM
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13. and sql server, and exchange server
SP 2 for SQL all but killed it.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 06:09 PM
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14. Good news - Recovered my database server
If anyone needs to know how to de-bung a Windows 2000 service pack installation, feel free to ask.
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:30 PM
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6. Well, if they mention
"we notice you've been missing a lot of work lately" be sure to respond, "I wouldn't say I've been MISSING it."
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:40 PM
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11. Just yesterday I did yell at a printer
"What the hell is PC Load Letter?"

And

"Why does it say there is a paper jam when there is no paper jam?"
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 05:51 PM
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12. I know the feeling!
Lumberg was my boss . . . before I quit.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 06:20 PM
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15. We had weekly reports enstated
Edited on Thu Aug-07-03 06:20 PM by DS1
We had to write down everything we'd worked on that week (looking for generalists that they could get rid of, even though most of the specialists were less qualified at their specialty), nobody ever turned one in.

The little fuck that tried to get them going would get so pissed, and send out nasty emails to the entire dev group, we'd all still 'forget', oops.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 06:38 PM
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16. Beware "consultants"

Someone is going to be fired.

"Ya know you need to cut expenses".............

Well gee what is your insightful idea for doing that?

:eyes:
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m_h_lovecraft Donating Member (386 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 06:40 PM
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17. There's a memo...
We're putting coversheets on the TPS reports now.
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Sophree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 06:57 PM
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18. If you could just go ahead and do that,
that would be great.
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HalfManHalfBiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 06:58 PM
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19. Watch out for the cornhole
nt
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