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IAmTheDood · #1 02-06-2008, 01:18 PM

Boss gives me a thumb drive and asks me to put 3 copies of a file on it. One for him, and one for 2 other people.

Jeremy Crockett · #2 02-06-2008, 01:20 PM

Awesome!

Tony G · #3 02-06-2008, 01:21 PM

Wait....what? He wants three copies of the same file all on one thumbdrive?

JonathanD · #4 02-06-2008, 01:22 PM

You should ask him if he can put your raise, and 2 other peoples on your check.

IAmTheDood · #5 02-06-2008, 01:22 PM

yup ..

and i work as a programmer for a computer company.

hehe.

Tony G · #6 02-06-2008, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by IAmTheDood

yup ..

and i work as a programmer for a computer company.

hehe.

And this is your boss for that same computer company???? Why exactly is he your boss?

casualmadness · #7 02-06-2008, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by IAmTheDood

Boss gives me a thumb drive and asks me to put 3 copies of a file on it. One for him, and one for 2 other people.

Hehheheheeheheheeh....what a maroon.

Mon Rominee · #8 02-06-2008, 01:44 PM

I hope you added insult to injury and gave the same file person-specific renames.... that would be hilarious.

mjolnir · #9 02-06-2008, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Tony G

And this is your boss for that same computer company???? Why exactly is he your boss?

...You haven't met many managers in the technical field, have you?

I can top it. I get a call about a CDROM drive not working, so I go through my usual checklist (is the disk seated firmly, is the disk excessively scratched, have you rebooted, etc. etc.) and apparently it's none of that, so I go down to the guys office to find...

...He was trying to put a floppy in the CD tray.

Tony G · #10 02-06-2008, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by mjolnir

...You haven't met many managers in the technical field, have you?

I guess not!

Tony G · #11 02-06-2008, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by mjolnir

I can top it. I get a call about a CDROM drive not working, so I go through my usual checklist (is the disk seated firmly, is the disk excessively scratched, have you rebooted, etc. etc.) and apparently it's none of that, so I go down to the guys office to find...

...He was trying to put a floppy in the CD tray.

Priceless!

jady · #12 02-06-2008, 02:00 PM

My CEO doesnt trust hard drives, he won't save any of his data to them because he insists that they are unstable and he will loose the data.

SO HE SAVES ALL HIS FILES TO FLOPPY DISKS!!!!!!!!!!

mjolnir · #13 02-06-2008, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Tony G

Priceless!

And I have oh so many of those stories, too... Any IT tech who's been around more than three weeks would.

I swear, even some of the smartest people in the world turn into infants around computers...

Valerus · #14 02-06-2008, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by mjolnir

...He was trying to put a floppy in the CD tray.

Oh the humanity.

Tony G · #15 02-06-2008, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by mjolnir

And I have oh so many of those stories, too... Any IT tech who's been around more than three weeks would.

I swear, even some of the smartest people in the world turn into infants around computers...

I'd love to hear more!

mjolnir · #16 02-06-2008, 02:14 PM

Once there was an old old man working as a consultant for someone or other in the finance department that I had to issue one of our laptops to who spilled a can of salted peanuts on the keyboard. Naturally, he thought it best to take it to the hall sink by the coffee machine and RINSE IT OFF. Luckily he had the presence of mind to turn it off before he did so, so it didn't actually visibly short until after he was back in his office and tried to turn it on.

Tony G · #17 02-06-2008, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by mjolnir

Once there was an old old man working as a consultant for someone or other in the finance department that I had to issue one of our laptops to who spilled a can of salted peanuts on the keyboard. Naturally, he thought it best to take it to the hall sink by the coffee machine and RINSE IT OFF. Luckily he had the presence of mind to turn it off before he did so, so it didn't actually visibly short until after he was back in his office and tried to turn it on.

lol...

disenchant · #18 02-06-2008, 02:21 PM

Our photography studio switched to all digital. So I found it funny when the arrogant new head of the photo department asked a photog where they kept the film.

CrazyArcher · #19 02-06-2008, 02:21 PM

Are floppy's still in use anywhere in the world? :shock:

Suggestion to the OP: create 3 separate directories on the drive and name them according to the intended recipients, then put the file separately into each one.

mjolnir · #20 02-06-2008, 02:24 PM

I can't really think of any more funny ones, they're mostly just sad, things like screaming about their computer not working because nothing's on the screen (hit the monitor power button) or not understanding why their computer shut off suddenly because they unplugged the power cord to rearrange it and make it neater, or my favorite, the lady who crashed her computer by trying to move all the files in her windows directory into separate folders organized by file type...

Oh, the joys of the computer industry...