• (cs) in reply to Carnildo
    Carnildo:
    GPa Hill:
    My Name:

    Sort of like when you get that link to the new Scandals Pictures of Miley Cyrus and you know you shouldn't look at them but...click and there you go.

    Bastard. I was at work. Even though I had the headphones plugged in, I happened to have the volume cranked way up from an early morning rockin' refactorin' session, and everyone for miles around knew I'd been rick-rolled.

    At least it wasn't goatse.

    Can you get goatse-rolled?

    I don't remember any insipid '80s music playing on the site when I visited it, but I've got to admit that the sound of my own vomiting would have drowned it out.

  • (cs) in reply to real_aardvark
    real_aardvark:
    Carnildo:
    GPa Hill:
    My Name:

    Sort of like when you get that link to the new Scandals Pictures of Miley Cyrus and you know you shouldn't look at them but...click and there you go.

    Bastard. I was at work. Even though I had the headphones plugged in, I happened to have the volume cranked way up from an early morning rockin' refactorin' session, and everyone for miles around knew I'd been rick-rolled.

    At least it wasn't goatse.

    Can you get goatse-rolled?

    I don't remember any insipid '80s music playing on the site when I visited it, but I've got to admit that the sound of my own vomiting would have drowned it out.

    Well, you can always go back and check again.

  • (cs) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    Pope:
    CAPTCHA: transverbero! Indeed my verbal prestidigitation knows no bounds!
    Too bad you suck at catching Monty Python references.

    I know... My lack of Monty Python knowledge continually cock-blocks me.

  • Um, no. (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    ContraCorners:
    German:
    Z3R0:
    Dear Jesus Christ. Sucks to be him.

    What sucks about being Jesus Christ?

    Shoot! Forgot to quote what I was responding to...

    Well, there was that whole "painful death at a young age" thing etc.

    2000 years ago a 33 year old wasn't that young.

    That's not really true. Life expectancy has increased since then, but the main factor is the reduction of child and infant mortality. People who make it to the age of, say, 20 aren't really likely to live that much longer than their counterparts from 2000 years ago. So 33 years old would be a relatively young age to die at. (Even if the average adult died at 60, that's still being cut off roughly halfway!)

  • (cs) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    webhamster:
    At least you didn't get copies of the e-mail from the 50-ish saleswoman who got a little too, um, "personal" with her cell phone camera and didn't know that all e-mail is archived and e-mails from cell phones float right to the top of the archive so when you go to open it...
    We're going to need proof. Link 'em.

    Trust me dude, you DON'T want to see them. I've gone through at least two bottles of eye bleach.

  • some guy (unregistered)

    what is it with the CEO's son/nephew/neighbour/good friend and watching pr0n/being completely moronic? Are CEOs required to have sons/nephews etc who ask for admin privilege, then go surf pr0n/write really bad code/screw something up completely before they can take the job?

  • The MG (unregistered) in reply to Enterpriser

    Ithik the real WTF here is that there's no mentioning HCwithDB.com

  • (cs) in reply to vsync
    vsync:
    xxx.lanl.gov
    , that's some real pr0n.

    Yeah, when I want to confuse people I put up the urls http://xxx.lanl.gov/ and http://xxx.adelaide.edu.au/ on the nearest whiteboard/blackboard. There's nothing quite like seeing people confused as to why universities and governments are hosting XXX websites... :)

    Other good ones, depending on location: http://xxx.arxiv.cornell.edu/ and/or http://xxx.sf.nchc.gov.tw/...

  • ...? (unregistered) in reply to German
    German:
    Z3R0:
    Dear Jesus Christ. Sucks to be him.

    What sucks about being Jesus Christ?

    the whole crucifixion business, i would imagine...

  • MIke B (unregistered)

    Great story. 90% of end users are retarded bastards,that can't tell a web browser, from a program. The other 10% are arrogant bastards who know more than you when they call, but some how seem complelled to call you any way. he-he!!!

  • Edward Royce (unregistered)

    Hmmmm.

    Here's a question. What if you work for an online porn company in the IT dept?

    1. Are you allowed to surf the porn sites?
      "I'm just testing! Now give me some privacy and that bottle of lotion."

    2. What must dev team meeting be like? "Ok we need to finish up the framework for the new Hot Interracial Anal Fisting website. John how are you doing on enabling the video streaming so we get started on the anal fisting?"

    3. What kind of weird ideas must be floated? "How about we make robotic dildoes that incorporate Microsoft's Force Feedback technology? That way the customer could manipulate the remote control dildo!"

    4. What kind of "townhall" style corporate meetings are involved? "I want everyone to know that Ass Rompers is up by 15% ..."

    5. How do you explain your job to your kid's class on job day? "When you surf the web for porn, I'm the guy making it happen!"

    ...

    Strange stuff.

  • Peets (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    Hey - you've just come up with a new metric for porn.

    Imagine this: Dear Mr So and so, our logs indicate you have exceeded your monthly allotment of 1kg worth of porn.

    We regret we have to put you on a porn diet. And we'll use heavier paper to print it on.

    :-)

  • (cs)

    70% less work for a team of three means that two of you must go.

    Congratulations. You failed at job security.

  • SpamBot (unregistered) in reply to A Nonny Mouse

    That must have been fun ...

  • SpamBot (unregistered) in reply to A Nonny Mouse
    A Nonny Mouse:
    Dirk:
    A Nonny Mouse:
    an ex of mine got fired for looking at pr0n at work.. they printed off every single page he'd visited and handed it to him, about 2 kg's worth of paper. whoops.

    Is that 2kg of printed URLs? Just interested...

    sure, send me your address and i'll email them to you..

    just kidding. they actually visited each page and printed it

    my last comment was in reference to this. Damn!

  • Mate (unregistered) in reply to vsync
    vsync:
    WRT Finland, are they allowed to have a company meeting and say generally not to look at pr0n? And say, for example, "not to anyone in particular" while glaring at an individual? Cuz that would be funny.

    Technically, yes. Without the glaring part, that's exactly the spirit of how the announcement ought to be made. With the glaring part, it would be walking on a pretty thin line, but funny nonetheless.

    Captcha: paratus - doesn't para-something often mean retarded? g

  • (cs) in reply to Mate
    Mate:
    vsync:
    WRT Finland, are they allowed to have a company meeting and say generally not to look at pr0n? And say, for example, "not to anyone in particular" while glaring at an individual? Cuz that would be funny.

    Technically, yes. Without the glaring part, that's exactly the spirit of how the announcement ought to be made. With the glaring part, it would be walking on a pretty thin line, but funny nonetheless.

    Captcha: paratus - doesn't para-something often mean retarded? g

    Technically, no.

  • (cs) in reply to ounos
    ounos:
    Andrew:
    2000 years ago a 33 year old wasn't that young.
    You obviously don't know that some distant ancestors of Jesus lived on for several centuries each. (No too much drinking, too much smoking and you can go a really long way)
    That was a couple thousand years before Jesus. And they were the distant ancestors of everyone alive now too :D Another tough thing about being Jesus is everyone using your name as a swearword. That must really bite.
  • jk (unregistered) in reply to Brent
    Brent:
    TRWTF is that here in the US, you *can't* make a recording of say, your frustrating tech support call, because making audio recordings of people without their consent is illegal, even if it is business related, so as a consumer, you have no evidence to refute Verizon when they told you data access was .1¢/MB, and it turns out to be $.1/MB.

    Whereas, on the other hand, for some reason it is perfectly legal to log everything someone does on a company computer without giving them any knowledge that you are doing it, and keep those logs in perpetuity.

    Corporations & Government : 1 Employees & Citizens : 0

    perhaps some lawyer will be pleased to charge you $200 to explain that some states require only one of the parties (eg yourself) to give consent to be recorded. See http://www.rcfp.org/taping/ for more information.

    also, when they say "this call may be recorded for quality control purposes," I consider that to be giving me permission. May be, might be, can be - thanks!

    captcha - ludus. Some kind of cough drop, I think?

  • jk (unregistered) in reply to Eternal Density
    Eternal Density:
    ounos:
    Andrew:
    2000 years ago a 33 year old wasn't that young.
    You obviously don't know that some distant ancestors of Jesus lived on for several centuries each. (No too much drinking, too much smoking and you can go a really long way)
    That was a couple thousand years before Jesus. And they were the distant ancestors of everyone alive now too :D Another tough thing about being Jesus is everyone using your name as a swearword. That must really bite.

    same thing happened to a friend of mine - fuckshitgoddambastard smith was his name.

  • (cs) in reply to A Nonny Mouse

    I wonder who in the IT staff volunteered to do that.

  • Redeemer (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    2000 years ago a 33 year old wasn't that young.

    hmm.. well a 33year old was -1967 years old, 2000 years ago. :P

  • Franz Kafka (unregistered) in reply to Tarpoon
    Tarpoon:
    My Name:
    [

    Sort of like when you get that link to the new Scandals Pictures of Miley Cyrus and you know you shouldn't look at them but...click and there you go.

    lol, I clicked on it at home wanted to close it and pressed down the enter key to close the popups. After the last one Firefox jumped back to the marked link and opened it in 6 new tabs. Now my ears bleed...

    Heh, I looked up the 'scandalous' pics last week - nothing I'd call scandalous or even titillating - just the sort of crap that teenage girls do, I expect.

  • (cs) in reply to some guy
    some guy:
    what is it with the CEO's son/nephew/neighbour/good friend and watching pr0n/being completely moronic? Are CEOs required to have sons/nephews etc who ask for admin privilege, then go surf pr0n/write really bad code/screw something up completely before they can take the job?

    Perhaps it is because the CEO (or other manager) fails to comprehend the difference in maturity, knowledge and general skill differences between the nephew (just out of high school, fixes his browser problems by running a cache killer) and the actual workers (generally older, lower (and more realistic) opinions and expectations of their abilities).

    Or it could be that they're looking for cheap labour to make the budget.

    Either way the nephew/whatever is usually dropped into a position far outstretching their capabilities.

  • Trevor D'Arcy-Evans (unregistered)

    In one company I worked for, the sysadmin was doing some maintenance on one of the sales manager's laptops. Just out of curiosity, he had a browse through his Internet Explorer cache. After that, he was known as "Mr Bestial".

  • Innocent Bystander (unregistered)

    I worked there. This is funny. I wonder why I didn't hear about it at the time.

  • katastrofa (unregistered) in reply to German
    German:
    Z3R0:
    Dear Jesus Christ. Sucks to be him.

    What sucks about being Jesus Christ?

    The crucifiction part, I presume.

  • Johnny come lately (unregistered)

    Why the hell did I read all comments?

  • ccj (unregistered)

    "Two weeks later, Michael was SLAIN" FTFY

  • Axel (unregistered) in reply to Johnny come lately

    Well, Johnny, I assume it was to devour each and every "crucifixion" quip. Spelling errors and all. Brillant!

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