Sure until you get back and find your colleague has identified the problem as something caused by you.

Our IT guys have a stash of them. I quickly learned that you dont need a ticket and they would GLADLY give you a spare.

B: was nice for copying things onto a second floppy.

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another drive was made.

I'd say it depends how much you're willing to pay me.

My first computer was Tandy. 8088 chip, I think. Orange monochrome monitor. No hard drive, 2x 5.25 floppers.

That sounds just like my first PC! I bought it secondhand in 1983 or 84. It was fancy because most monitors were green, and the two floppies meant you didn't have to remove the program disk to save a file. I remember laboriously typing out the code for Eliza, the first chatbot. I had a daisy wheel printer too - the paper was fan-fold and had sprocket holes down the sides.

Tribute to all the old high priests who were executing the extended memory settings ritual based on each software requirements! We are the guardians of ancient knowledde!

You shall never be forgotten, sacred Amstrad 1512 DD, 512kB of RAM and Dual Drives, luxury of your time! Praise be to DR DOS an GEM Desktop!

They are trying to change those icons now, too. People dont recognize them so they use others.

At least ask if you can sit in their lap.

This will endlessly fuck your back up. Use a chair or at least squat. My old boss has a permanent bend after doing that for 25 years.

You should be able to name a drive with any Unicode character. Yes, including emoji.

The day I got rights to provision, I bought a dozen extra mice/keyboards and walked around swapping them out.

Man, I don't miss that. Now with wfh, I can more easily avoid this shit. Oh, you don't know how to download and save a Teams meeting recording and want me to take 30 minutes to walk you through it over the phone? Take these instructions with screenshots for each step instead and leave me alone lol.

Sometimes that doesn't work because the person I'm dealing with is just that clueless and can't follow basic instructions. So I do end up having to speak with them. But I make sure to have a meeting coming up before I call them.

I will

I fought this battle with the computer mechanics for 25 years, I always win, I will always win.

If my tickets get deleted my boss will ensure they magically appear and are serviced, you can try HR for harassment but since there's none its all good. I don't need benefit of the doubt with anyone other than my boss, and my inherent rudeness and lack of empathy are why I generally get promoted.

Keep telling yourself that.

I always label my secondary and tertiary drive A and B these days

This is why slrpnk went down. poVoq forgot to do the ritual offerings before they left

And if everyone's distaste for being around you leads to bad quarterlies from your manager, bad peer reviews from your colleagues, your IT tickets being mysteriously deleted so they don't have to deal with you, your team filing reports with HR for harassment, and no one liking you enough to give you the benefit of the doubt, you can take that rudeness into the interview process at a new company and see how far it gets you with their HR.

Even the chairs!

Ha ha, wow. Good times 🙂

I dont want to sit in someones manky chair, I always politely decline when they ask.

I get paid just the same

And your shit ain't getting fixed.

You have to justify your job. Good luck.

I could sit at your desk from my desk. Just stop being a pointless prick. You aren't that important.