Re: Don destroyer of latops



I used to work with a "Don" but mine was called Gary.


He was renowned for fucking up every computer/application he ever went near.


The mere act of logging on to the internet, on a fully suited & booted networked pc would result in a company-wide virus somehow getting downloaded. At one time, he fancied himself as a programmer, wrote some Java app and then brought it to work on a floppy. Then, to show our manager how great he was, he let it loose on the network. Cue machines crashing and servers bogging down as the anti-virus systems desperately tried to catch and neutralise the 'virus'.

In his attempts to better himself, he set up a test domain in the lab and never let on, not even when the eejit gave it the same name as one of the company domains and let it loose on the network. It took three days of lost work for a hundred people before the problem was tracked down as, unsure that he should have the thing running or not, he kept switching the server on and off just as the IT dept were checking the network.

He once wiped a build server by accident by amazingly ignoring the A4 sheet with the DO NOT TURN OFF THIS MACHINE in bold lettering stuck to the front of it.

Another project had him scripting oodles of code for some system checks. He spent several weeks writing the programme, gathered us all together, entered the launch command and hit ENTER. Nothing happened. Apart that is from the programme somehow self destructing and taking the hard drive with it in a digital murder/suicide pact.

Amazingly, he was never sacked by the company. The only stipulations were that he was never placed onsite with a client and that someone should shadow his work and correct any major mistakes.
(Fanta Menace Is tall enough to see over the fence, Sat 27 Oct 2007, 13:18, Reply)