Would you like to play a game?
This one cropped up earlier on in the month, and I feel it needs to be taken off my chest before I get shrouded in legal bills.

In light of the current economic climate (read: end of the world), my delightful current employer has realised it might not be possible to fly sales people half way round the world for a failed computer deal, and have gone about promoting this new Windows Live Meeting (think MSN Messenger for people too far up their own arse to admit to using MSN Messenger) bundle they paid a pretty penny for in order to 'integrate with the external market through volatile conditions and the excessive need to avoid adverse costs'. This took the entire board of directors a 4 day meeting at a 5 star hotel's conference hall to decide, but that's another story of hypocrisy for a different day. In the meantime, here's how myself and my colleagues skived off for a bit...

The sales department have a student, much like myself, manning this new MSN shindig to talk to customers at will should they wish to ask questions. Customers can log onto the server, choose a name etc and then ask about new products and promotions.

Unfortunately, said student was stupid enough to give us the login details, and we so spent the afternoons logged on as the lusty S.Connor@skynet before replacing this ficticious character with LiveSupport_HAL, who would intervene at random moments with 'Technical Error 404: I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave' whenever the conversation got a bit raunchy. Did I mention my department is full of nerds?

Why did I need to get this off my chest? Is it because I'm gay, underqualified and emotionally fragile? Well, we eventually told Dave the Student what was going on, and he now knows when we're playing him so he can tell us kindly to 'reallocate your bullshit to the nearest waste disposal facility, cockmuncher'.

Who was I to know that the head of purchasing at our main partner was called Steven Connor and would cause a bit of a PR fiasco next time S.Connor popped online to ask about our mainframes?
(FoxyBadger (try saying it backwards), Fri 9 Jan 2009, 22:48, 2 replies)

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now, maybe I'm just being pedantic, but wouldn't it be 403? forbidden, and all that.
(Freeman163, Sat 10 Jan 2009, 5:46, closed)

You're probably right
Isn't a 404 when a website cannot be displayed?

You pedantic git :P
(FoxyBadger (try saying it backwards), Sat 10 Jan 2009, 17:32, closed)