May have mentioned this previously
...but in my early programming days I may have inadvertently brought down an entire IBM Mainframe whilst testing a couple of new programs. The whole thing collapsed in a heap, hundreds of users unable to do any work for the rest of the day. The IBM engineers arrived and took away copies of my code to study as they had never seen that happen before. That didn't really make me feel any better.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:27, 3 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

*applauds*

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:28, Reply)

*bows*
*accidentally pulls power cable out of the back of the mainframe*
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:59, Reply)

\o/ IT ANECDOTES ARE MY FAVOURITE TYPE OF ANECDOTE AFTER AA ANECDOTES

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:28, Reply)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANECDOTES

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:29, Reply)

when Cyril made a wish
he ended up stuck on top of a church
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:32, Reply)

we're the only ones who don't work in IT, i think

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:02, Reply)

The only person in my company more useless then Nakers
is a Welsh woman twice his age that genuinely didn't realise that the monitor and desktop box had separate power buttons.
( Kroney, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:04, Reply)

be fair, they don't have computers in wales
how's your knowledge of oxen?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:05, Reply)

:o
Now steady on
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:07, Reply)

We have a few of those
plus ones who turn it off using the button every night instead of shutting down properly, then moan when it fucks up on a regular basis.
If they used, say, chainsaws as part of their job they'd all be missing limbs or dead by now.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:07, Reply)

Now you own IT

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:05, Reply)

i most certainly do not
i hate computers. they don't make sense.

every fucking morning, my email system asks me to confirm my credentials. and i do. and i tick the box that says "remember me".

and every fucking morning, it forgets me. HOW?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:06, Reply)

probably got an Alzheimers virus

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:07, Reply)

Which one are you again?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:08, Reply)

Probably something to do with electric.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 15:09, Reply)

If you're going to do it, do it properly.....

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:29, Reply)

OK "George Michael"

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:30, Reply)

*whispers* "....careless."

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:32, Reply)

If you're gonna fuck up, you might as well fuck up properly

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 17 Sep 2013, 14:59, Reply)