Life imitates Office Space

[slackmaster]

My boss's boss is taking two guys that look like "the Bobs" from Office Space on an extensive tour of our building.

[Richardo]

Start gutting that fish and watch your red stapler...

..God that's a funny movie.

[disgruntella]

1. uh-oh.

If they come by your cubicle make sure to say "I'm a people person!" lol

[slackmaster]

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?"

[disgruntella]

3. at least they didn't ask about your "flair"

[TrogL]

4. OS?

I can think of one that needs to be rebooted at least once a week.

[DS1]

5. probably runs sql server 7 too

:evilgrin:

[slackmaster]

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.

[slackmaster]

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.

[DS1]

8. ahh, never install an even-numbered service pack

ever. trust me.

[slackmaster]

10. That was very true under Windows NT 4

The SPs have been pretty well behaved in 2000, except this one.

[DS1]

13. and sql server, and exchange server

SP 2 for SQL all but killed it.

[slackmaster]

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.

[geniph]

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."

[slackmaster]

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?"

[baldguy]

12. I know the feeling!

Lumberg was my boss . . . before I quit.

[DS1]

15. We had weekly reports enstated

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.

[underpants]

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:

[m_h_lovecraft]

17. There's a memo...

We're putting coversheets on the TPS reports now.

[Sophree]

18. If you could just go ahead and do that,

that would be great.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

19. Watch out for the cornhole

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