Bright Sparks
1. "Can you look at my monitor? There are sparks coming out of it". Goes up to look at said monitor, but no sparks. Lady said "It only happens when I water the plants" and demonstratess how she watered her geranium with the pot balanced on top of said monitor.

2. Stood at the console of a large (in its day) buiness system next to the ops manager. I turn to him and say "how do you spell 'power-down-sys immed'?" and watch him go white.

3. Wrote back up program that instructed the operator to load-spool-on-drive-one, reload-spool-on-drive-two, clean-drive-head-and-replace-spool, stand-on-one-leg-and-whistle-dixie while watching him and pising ourselves laughing through the machine room window.

4. Seen a loser-user take a floppy disk and staple it to a report. Genius.

5. In the old days, it was easy to hi-jack peoples screens, so you could capture passwords. It's easy with passwords to work out who in an office is shagging who. Of course, clear type password files are the best!
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 18:05, Reply)