How I got the sack from IT Support
Re-written and reposted from the "Onosecond" QOTW

I arrived for my shift one day to find the grown-ups in our department running around in small circles pulling out their hair and shouting "It's fucked! It's fucked!" because our hugely expensive computer network had decided to take a day off.

Eventually, somebody decided the best course of action was to turn it off and back on again, and after several hours, the behemoth roared back into life and the batphone from the MD's office stopped ringing.

The boss stuck his head round the door and said with huge smile on his face: "Scary - do us a favour - send an on-screen message to all users to let 'em know the computer's no longer fucked."

So I did.

"ALL USERS: COMPUTER NO LONGER FUCKED"

We laughed.

Then, I dropped my coffee mug. It landed on the Enter key.

Our network had several hundred users in many varied locations round the world, some of whom earned mind-boggling sums of money and had the ears of movers-and-shakers in both industry and government.

I was no longer one of them.
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 15:20, 5 replies)

No sense of humour between the lot of 'em obviously
I, on the other hand, would have pissed myself laughing to get such a message
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 15:23, closed)

Simplicity speaks volumes sometimes.
Beautiful, and straight to the point..

Hard lines about the job though.
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 17:00, closed)

It were years ago...
...walked into another job, and I've hardly been sacked since.
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 17:54, closed)

I clicked this last time, I'm sure
and I'm clicking it again now. *click*
(WillI'mNot logs in twice a year, every year, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 17:58, closed)

Who gets sacked for profanity?
Christ, you were just telling 'em everything was working. Uptight twats.
(Scritty Bakerman., Sat 26 Sep 2009, 13:51, closed)