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  • "To start push any key. Hey where's the Any Key???"

    So today I walk in on a giant panic situation at work. Our budget has apparently been depleted overnight and I am personally being asked to account for every dollar spent in the last year. So my desk is covered with reams of paperwork, and my friend and coworker K stops by to commiserate. I take a second to enjoy satisfying drink of coffee, pick up my travel mug at the base, and then watch as it does a complete 180, flips upside down and promptly loses its lid, spilling 20 ounces of coffee directly onto my keyboard.
    I swear I could have practiced that move for a thousand years and not been able to perfect it. It was such a bizarre fluke. K and I literally both stared with our mouths hanging open and then promptly started laughing hysterically (stress nerves!!)
    My other friend J overhears the commotion and grabs some towels to help me clean up. Now this is where it gets weird; it is about 90 seconds after the original spill, we are only halfway done mopping it up, and I say to them "the worst part out of all of this is going to be tracking down IT . I have no idea how to get a new keyboard."
    You see, I work in healthcare. The red tape to do anything will destroy your soul. and you are far more likely to see a Sasquatch wandering the halls then you are to have a real live IT person help you out.
    The words are literally still coming out of my mouth when around the corner comes an IT guy pushing a large metal cart. A large metal cart filled with NOTHING BUT KEYBOARDS!!!!
    It was so bizarre I swear I should have immediately bought a lotto ticket.
    Too bad the rest of my day was a nightmare!!!!
    Last edited by I am the Lizard Queen!!; 01-03-2013, 02:17 AM.
    "Can't talk.

    Comin' down."

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    You are traveling through a dimension...

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    • #3
      That was your New Year's luck comin' through. Hope it continues!!
      When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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      • #4
        Care to pass on that luck to some of us? We may need it...
        Some people just need a high five...

        In the face with the back of a chair....

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        • #5
          we are IT we control the horizontal, the vertical and the keyboards.
          Interviewer: What is your greatest weakness?
          Me: I expect competence from my coworkers.

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          • #6
            Quoth gremcint View Post
            we are IT we control the horizontal, the vertical and the keyboards.
            I wondered if anyone was going to follow my post.

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            • #7
              Quoth gremcint View Post
              we are IT we control the horizontal, the vertical and the keyboards.
              I remember a panic on a text BBS (Compuserve) caused by someone claming to be able to watch other posters because they had reverse video on *their* computer.
              I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
              Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
              Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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              • #8
                So Lizard Queen, you get a keyboard? I can just imagine you asking for one and the IT tech says, "No, these keyboards are for Acqusistions/the Sasquatch/the dumpster."
                Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

                Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

                I wish porn had subtitles.

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                • #9
                  Quoth Aethian View Post
                  I wondered if anyone was going to follow my post.
                  I was going to follow with "of voyeuristic intentions"
                  I AM the evil bastard!
                  A+ Certified IT Technician

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                  • #10
                    Quoth lordlundar View Post
                    I was going to follow with "of voyeuristic intentions"
                    "Well selcuded, I SEE ALL" (OH SHIT)
                    I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                    -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


                    "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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                    • #11
                      Did you turn Magenta on us?
                      Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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                      • #12
                        In response to the OP's Topic regarding the "Where's the Any Key?" joke...

                        Trust me, it could be a lot worse. How about those idiots who have to get their computer fixed because they broke its cup holder, finding out the hard way it's not really a cup holder? *hint, hint, nudge nudge*?

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Kristev View Post
                          Did you turn Magenta on us?
                          No just that I know most of the dialogue and call back lines

                          30+ years of RHPS will do that.
                          I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                          -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


                          "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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