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Aug 22, 2008 20:11


Two more nuggets from life as a consultant.

It’s probably not a great idea to draw attention to yourself by BitTorrenting at the client site. Nor is it good form to give your computer a name that includes profanity. Combine them and you might have to own up to it when the client IT staff publicly ask, “Who here has the computer called ‘Little ( Read more... )

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cvirtue August 23 2008, 00:19:59 UTC
Hee!

A friend of mine was called on the carpet at work when a woman in the office took offense to a name of one of the machines -- sexual harassment, she said. Turns out she didn't know that "rapier" was a type of sword.

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ornoth August 24 2008, 21:51:25 UTC
Hmmm. Okay, is she really, really pretty? I mean, otherwise, how would someone like that get thru life?

PS: You read my LJ? I thot you gave that up for Lent?

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cvirtue August 24 2008, 22:26:02 UTC
Surprise!

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