I worked one Xmas Day for an ISP support centre
5.30pm until 2am. Twas a weird shift as there were about 10 of us in the building, as opposed to the usual 200 or so we normally had. Obviously with it being Xmas an all it was dead quiet in terms of work and on me first break 2 hours into the shift I drove home and picked up me Sega Dreamcast and a load of games.

I drove back to work, grabbed a portable from one of the training rooms and set it up next to me work pc, and ended up playing a mixture of Jet Set Radio and Quake 3 all evening.

It was during this that I took my one and only phonecall for the evening that was from a granny trying to email her family in Australia and needing Outlook Express reconfigured. So I was walking her through this while randomly blowing up bots on Quake 3. At one point I did press mute on the phone to shout out "Fuck me, did you see that rocket jump?" then straight back to the customer I continued "...and then type in your email address there please."

Finished the call in about 6 minutes and played the Dreamcast until the end of the shift. After treble time and all the bonuses I got paid a good few hundred quid extra all for practicing me rocket jumping skillz :D
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 8:22, Reply)