Petty SabotageI once put magnets on my brothers collection of ZX81 cassettes, so when he attempted to play them, they were full of errors and yet apparently undamaged. Can you beat that? Tell us your tales of petty sabotage.
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chthonic, Wed 4 May 2005, 10:59)
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Annoying Shift LeaderI used to work as a tape monkey in the eighties looking after mainframes. It was our job every Sunday night to change the main system password (maximum 8 characters). Our shift leader (we shall call him Deepak) was a particularly nasty piece of work. Being Indian he also had a big problem pronouncing his 'v's. So, too our amusement we would always put v's in the password (Ultimate Pettiness). The best password we came up with was 'v8volvo'.
"What's the new password Dee?" The systems people would shout. "Wee-et-woll-wo" would be the reply followed by “Pardon?” and sounds of people pissing themselves laughing. Our resident skinhead shift member also contributed the password ‘pickanut’. I think it was an anagram….
(, Wed 11 May 2005, 1:16, Reply)
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