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March 28, 2003

Dressed for success
Posted by Jess in Geek Humor

I have been doing daily tasks ranging from hardware to sofware to admin work.
I love it, it keeps the job interesting.

However, in five years, I have not managed to get it right.

The day I wear my best shirt and a black skirt is the day I end up sliding across a dusty floor to find the other end of a network cable.

I will paint my fingernails, only to end up using them as a temporary screw driver to remove a troublesome chassis case.

Velour fabric looks nice. But I've learned it's not nice when you end up cracking open the dustiest computer in the room.

My car has no air conditioning. In the summer, my office's air conditioning is usually set to 10 degrees below zero. The one day I plan for this and head into the office wearing a scarf, ski jacket and three sweaters, I am sent out to a client site that is 2 hours away.

The one day I head into the server room for some admin work will always just happen to be after a late night of drinks and friends. Within minutes the soft, gentle sound of servers and fans running is close to putting me into a catatonic state.

The fact that I stay awake is only due to the air conditioner running, and I am wearing short sleeves!

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this was just really darn funny!

Posted by: jonvon at March 28, 2003 05:32 PM

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LOL, I'm glad you liked it.

I write what I know! :-)

Posted by: Jess at March 28, 2003 05:46 PM

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At least yours is accidental, Jess. I had a neighbor in the sixties (I was just a wee kidlet at the time) who was a Xerox rep. Xerox had a "suit and tie" dress code in those days, and this poor fellow spent his days clearing jams, cleaning photocopiers and refilling bulk toner bins. Sort of makes you wonder why they'd call that a "white" collar job....

Posted by: Stan Rogers at March 28, 2003 06:20 PM

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OH! That poor guy!
I can cringe on his behalf just thinking of having to do all that with a suit and tie...
Don't toner cartridges have holes in them where you pull off the long piece of tape?

dangling tie + toner = baaaaaad news, I can imagine!

Some things just make no sense. They're called "desktops" still, yet most people put them on the floor. Shoved in the back of the desk. With tons of stuff on them. Covered with dust.

I just hope your neighbor was able to write off his dry-cleaning bills!
:-)

Posted by: Jess at March 28, 2003 06:43 PM

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Worse yet, we keep our data center dark, plus the hum of the air and computers. Then the staring at all the racks with blinking lights, makes you want to......

...sorry, just woke up from typing this, wow 1:30pm already and to think I started writing this at 10am :-)

Posted by: Chris Miller at March 31, 2003 02:32 PM

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