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.

I'll bet you have no idea why people dont like you huh?

Or you can get your fat ass up. It is almost always PEBKAC. You aren't working and I am trying to. Go take a shit or smoke or gab in someone else's office.

I will track you down when it is fixed or I need to show you what you are doing wrong.

Especially annoying with laptop users.

Look, I am a tall guy, and your desk is so damn low I could use it as a urinal.

Just get out of the chair so I don't have to strain my back and eyes to figure out why you can't use your computer.

If you come at me with that energy, I will grab an intern and have them waste your entire afternoon while they google how to fix something I could have done in two minutes had you just gone into the break room and grabbed coffee or some shit.

Yeah but we don't talk about that until after we get the raise.

but also they actually don't -- especially for an internal system. How many of your colleagues are going to say "I couldn't work over the weekend because the XYZ wasn't up!"

Only the real sickos, and they should be ignored not celebrated.

Client-facing system, yeah I guess it's bad, but then I question what the customers are doing on their weekends

If you wanted the system up over weekends you'd pay us for weekends.

Glad to be of service. :)

I just saw this message by the way, probably an intance sync issue.

Or because the OS was on A and the application was on B

RadioShack Tandy 1000-TX was our first desktop.. Technically, I think we had a VIC20 for a couple weeks that was hooked up to our TV but it got returned and damn am I glad we got that IBM-compatible, CGA graphics, loud-ass behemoth.

I can still hear the sound of the floppy drives intializing on bootup. A: was 3.5" and B: was 5.25" and the way they sounded made my 6-year old self so happy. I used to make the noises myself as it came online.

Years later, when I write this post, I will think.. why did I ever doubt my autism diagnosis?

Same here.

One woman I use to help had so much make up caked onto the receiver of her phone it would stain my hands.

I did/do it for elderly too. One man had so much grime on his keyboard the buttons would get stuck. He was the reason I started caring alcohol wipes lol

Users constantly offer me to sit, sometimes repeatedly. And while I appreciate the gesture, that chair means I am capitulating to the machine that is taunting me with its flippant disregard for my desire to doom scroll, drink caffeine, and talk shit on the service desk in the secret group chat from the comfort of my own desk.

praise be, praise be

Nope. Vacation is vacation and if something goes tits up… well, it's my colleagues problem.

"We need the system up over weekend!"

"No you dont."

Praise the Omnissiah! So my vacation is protected by the machine spirits 🙏

"Thus the monkey of the isle demanded Disk 114 be inserteth. Yet there was no Disk 114 and much confusion was sewn."

I think one important detail that's missing in the OP is the reason you would have not one but two reserved floppy drives. It was so that you could copy files from one floppy to another and duplicate floppies much more easily. Also, when installing games that came on multiple floppies, you could have one drive going while you switched the other one out. For this reason both A: and B: ended up reserved for floppies, as many people had more than one.

No one ever used the B:

Games needing two floppies only worked in the A: or so it was for me...

simpsons did it

don't forget the invisible pseudo-files that follow you around the tree in case you need to print something from a dos program

Not true, you can connect as many Drives as physically possible, but they won't all have letters assigned. I think there's a way to access a drive without a letter, but anyway you can still mount it as a path under an existing letter.