Anyone remember Y!Pool?
Many moons ago the company I worked for agreed to allow the workforce to install Yahoo messenger on their PC's. It was we were told a business tool to help us communicate with different departments across the building without needing to waste time walking 20 feet or so. Cutting edge huh!
In practice in was used and abused in equal measure, generally allowing the blokes to flirt with the girls in accounts and quickly send around links to animal pron.

Some months later on a dreary lunch break, my mate who was in marketing discovered the game Yahoo! pool. It was a stunningly simple flash game but we were horribly addicted to it, playing every lunch break and quickly racking up hundreds of games. We were very close in ability so as we reached the magic 1000 game mark, there was only a dozen wins difference between us.

Driven by our competitive nature, the games soon began to spill over into work hours and we became incredibly adept at playing for hours by minimizing the game window to a size that wouldn't arouse suspicion.

This continued for months until one day we were both summoned (separately) to HR for a chat. Completely unbeknown to us, when you're playing Yahoo! pool, your user name takes on a slightly different appearance. Mine looked something like this:

BinDipper01(y!Pool)

Talk about rumbled. Thankfully our boss had only noticed for about a week so had asked HR to give us a talking to. Had he known the actual hours spent potting those virtual balls, I doubt a light reprimand would have sufficed.
(BinDipper, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 14:53, 1 reply)

Mine would read
UFM01(QOTW)
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