When I was a boy and Doom came out...
... Me and some other mates set up some PCs at work on a Friday afternoon and played Doom. Others who saw were pretty relaxed, so stayed to watch for a while. This was the best day ever in our working lives.

Until the Lan administrators shut down the whole Lan, stopped everyone in the building doing work (maybe 150 people), and said that the Lan was corrupted by unauthorised activity which they were investigating.

Turns out they knew exactly who we were and what we were doing, and that was their idea of a joke.

Bastards.

Anyway, after the poo had dried in our pants we found out that the whole story had come out, (without our names being disclosed) and they had copped it for stuffing around the whole building. Serves them right.

Still we never did it again



during work hours



but we had some close calls during the night. Classic was a security guard coming by at about 1am, while 4 of us were wearing Metallica etc t-shirts and jeans, and asking us if we'd seen any suspicious characters. Then he showed us which door was left open and said to make sure it closed in the future. Also one of my mates was a knob who didn't sign out one night - he just turned off the monitor on someone's pc. That person started trying to get the cleaners into trouble for loging in and stealing company secrets, so I had to take him aside and 'fess up.

Ah, good times
(Skippyfillet, Thu 28 Apr 2005, 17:02, Reply)