Call Center 'IT' Support
Back in about 1998 i worked in IT support for a large insurance company named after a European city. It was a call center and i was paid pennies to talk to the stupidest people on the planet for 8 hours a day. To break the monotony we used to play tricks on each other. The best ruse happened one Friday evening to my mate Derek - he went for a smoke break and didnt lock his desktop. Big mistake!

I downloaded all of his RAM, his proxy firewall and his IP addresses to my USB stick. Once i had all of his information it was simply a case up upgrading my wireless bluetooth headset to linux 7.6. Then i used my blackberry as a makshift firewall proxy(safety first!), installed Sim-City onto my hard disk (The R: drive for all you techies!) and then i passed all the extra processing overheads( remember this was 1998!) onto Dereks PC.

He couldn't understand why his PC was so slow. Me and my other mate Colin high fived each other, we called it high 0101-ing, every time Derek complained about how slow the log file from his virtual processer went below the required gigabyte level of his mainframe. All i had to do was open DOS on my Nokia and i could easily upgrade the HTML for my World of Warcraft elf 'Xelu'. This was all via the read-only file stored on Derek's pentium 4 dual core linux based Operating System!!!

The cherry on the iceing came when Xelu beat Derek's Wizard 'Ian' in World of Warcraft - all because i had bypassed his enchanted sword of Tuman using a simple DOS command 'bypass Tuman -t -a'. Every time Derek hit his space bar it happened again without him knowing! LOL

I moved to sales about two months after that and never did get around to telling him what happened. So if you're reading this Derek, sorry mate! ;-)

Length? About 1 and a half episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
(BarryChuckle, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 14:13, 5 replies)

Rathen
That makes about as much sense as a stoned rhino quoting from Kafka.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 28 Sep 2009, 14:18, closed)

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lol'd
(kebabking - salad and garlic mayo pls, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 14:25, closed)

Its all geek to me...
...could someone translate this for me please?
( TheMattInAHat has a particular... odour..., Mon 28 Sep 2009, 15:04, closed)

This...

Is one Star Trek reference away from genius.

I get it, mate. Even if some people don't.

Have a click.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Mon 28 Sep 2009, 15:08, closed)

Psst
Oh. Never mind.
(richardm, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 15:48, closed)