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I took myself off to the storage room to stretch my legs for a while. I
got to puzzling over the history of desktop computing - operating
systems, device drivers, multitasking, protected memory, etc.
Anyway, I just got back to my desk, and... I'm 57 minutes late for the
IT meeting. Ooops!
You Fail.
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:58:05 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> I took myself off to the storage room to stretch my legs for a while. I
> got to puzzling over the history of desktop computing - operating
> systems, device drivers, multitasking, protected memory, etc.
>
> Anyway, I just got back to my desk, and... I'm 57 minutes late for the
> IT meeting. Ooops!
>
> You Fail.
I used to have that problem *all* the time. Don't feel bad, just
apologise and tell them you were "working through some technical
stuff". ;-)
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I used to have that problem *all* the time. Don't feel bad, just
> apologise and tell them you were "working through some technical
> stuff". ;-)
Amazingly, this worked...
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Anyway, I just got back to my desk, and... I'm 57 minutes late for the
> IT meeting. Ooops!
And instead of going there, you decided to drop a line here?-)
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- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>> Anyway, I just got back to my desk, and... I'm 57 minutes late for the
>> IT meeting. Ooops!
>
> And instead of going there, you decided to drop a line here?-)
Hey, at least I didn't fire up mIRC to let everybody know my PC is on
fire. :-D
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> I used to have that problem *all* the time. Don't feel bad, just
>> apologise and tell them you were "working through some technical
>> stuff". ;-)
>
> Amazingly, this worked...
That's the beauty of IT: nobody knows how it works, so you can act all
BOFH and they'll buy it. ;)
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:05:13 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> I used to have that problem *all* the time. Don't feel bad, just
>> apologise and tell them you were "working through some technical
>> stuff". ;-)
>
> Amazingly, this worked...
I've used it a few times myself, never had it not work. You just have to
be convincing, and technically, it's not a lie (you were thinking about
'technical stuff', that it's maybe not work-related is simply something
you didn't divulge, and for most non-tech people, they know better than
to ask after doing so once or twice).
Jim
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>>> I used to have that problem *all* the time. Don't feel bad, just
>>> apologise and tell them you were "working through some technical
>>> stuff". ;-)
>>
>> Amazingly, this worked...
>
> That's the beauty of IT: nobody knows how it works, so you can act all
> BOFH and they'll buy it. ;)
Given that it's the Director of IT that I'm trying to lie to... <insert
sarcasm here>
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