Last week a colleague of mine did something that made me laugh so much I had to write about it. I don't name names on here so I'll refer to him as 'Mr Chocolate Milk' throughout this piece. He's a very good friend of mine and regularly has me in hysterics as we share the common bond of both being east end gangsters born and bred. Innit...
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| Just don't ask me who I am |
Anyway, we have a great piece of tech at work called DameWare which I'm sure is used all over the place. It allows the user to log remotely onto someone else's PC so they can fix it, show the person how to do something or generally check up on them if you're that way inclined. So, Mr Chocolate Milk phoned me up and then logged onto my PC to show me how to do something specific. All was ok, it went well and he showed me what I needed to know. Now, the problem is that when someone logs onto your machine, they also have control over it aswell and can basically do whatever they want. And guess what? This is exactly what the cheeky git did.
He decided to go onto YouTube and have a search around for something to show me. He came up with an episode of 'Prisoner Cell Block H' and pointed out where the show was filmed as he'd recently been to Australia himself. Now, this is all very interesting, but why was it so funny? Well, he then decided to shout across to one of the managers nearby in his office and in a very loud voice said "Liam, I've just remotely logged onto Nicola's machine and she's watching Prisoner Cell Block H. That's terrible"...
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| Never trust people who work in IT... |
I could have swung for him if I wasn't laughing so hard. Luckily I know the manager in question and he knew it was a joke, but it could have gone a bit wrong if it'd been someone else! Pretty much since then Mr Chocolate Milk has been threatening to log back onto my PC to see what episode I'm up to!!
The reason I found it so funny is probably because it's something I would do myself! I love a joke at work and I think people know me well enough that I'll take it as well as give it back. I guess the moral of the story is be careful what you have on your screen just in case someone logs on or make sure you trust who has the power to check up on you! I'll get him back, don't you worry about that...
I was also doing some testing at work last week and whilst having a quick cuppa took the photo below of me with my feet up in a comedy style and posted it on Twitter. Mr Chocolate Milk decided to share this picture with my office manager the following day who thought it was hilarious. To anyone who doesn't know me it probably looks very much like I in fact don't do much work at all, but in reality I am always at my desk till gone 6pm and rarely have a lunch break anymore. All of my own doing so don't feel sorry for me, but I guess it makes it amusing because it's completely the opposite of who I am. If I was a lazy git it wouldn't be as easy to wind me up I suppose.
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| A laptop, cuppa, biccies what more could you want? |
A word to the wise, never trust people who work in IT. They have the power and the means to make you look very silly indeed. But on the other hand they can fix all your PC problems so maybe buy them sweets and keep them onside as you never know when you might need their help.
My little notebook which I keep on my desk for writing down the random things I hear has become famous! My colleagues will now say something, look at me and ask "are you writing that down for your blog?" It seems this section has become infamous and my little goldmine of amusement is trying hard to make the grade from notebook to blog post! So here's one of his best from a few weeks ago.
For some reason he was rummaging through his rucksack looking for something. No idea what he was doing, but I heard a mumble and looked up to find he was holding a cherry tomato. I carried on with what I was doing until he shouted again and was holding another one. This went on for some time until he became very animated and shouted "It's out of control!! There's about 6 of them at the bottom of my bag!!" In the end there was actually about 15 of them all rolling around loose in his bag. No idea why and I don't think he knew either which is what made it so funny. It was kind of like watching a magician, but instead of pulling coloured scarves out of a hat, it was tomatoes from a rucksack. He continued to look in his bag and informed us all that "I've also got a headlamp, some cables, a very small pack of cards and a tin of fish". It was the most random selection of stuff I've ever seen. He also used to carry a small canister of gas for a camping stove around, but that's another story.
I have a feeling that we may have found the final resting place of the Holy Grail and perhaps Shergar. They're both in the bottom of a rucksack in the Midlands with some salad tomatoes if you're interested...
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| Beware of out of control fruit |
