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akatch

Coworkers who make your day better

Just got this email from one of my coworkers (who is also a redditor):

Dearest akatch,

Forgive my electronic interruption, but I find myself in dire need of your expertise. I am inquiring about the computers located in the cabinet (you may have seen it before). Let me dither no longer, and get to the apex of my correspondence. Do yonder machines have Office 2010 and SP1 installed, or shall I be required to place them upon the computers myself?

With eternal regards,

[coworker]

What entertaining things do your coworkers do that make your day better?

Posted Sep 9, 2011, 2:08 PM UTC

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zekran4c696e7578•

Coworker bought a pair of top hats and monocles for us to wear at work one day.

We responded to every request in Victorian English and liberal uses of thou, yon, yonder, wouldest and so on.

There was also much HARRUMPHING and monocle shock faces when things went wrong.

It was a good day.

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Grumpy_Kong•

Not necessarily a co-worker but...

Our office's cell phones and radios are all serviced by this small time sprint reseller (father-son business), and one day the son comes in with their accounting PC. Bad crash, won't boot, 6 hours work.

I recover all of his quickbooks data and he's SUPER overjoyed! Turns out he's getting married in a few days and didn't want to go on honeymoon with this nightmare waiting for him when he got back.

That good gentleman gave me a free upgrade to an HTC Evo and a 16g micro-SD.

And there was much rejoicing

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YoureAFuckingTowel•

A few of the employees we support are redditors, so we communicate entirely in meme.

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perixe•

"hey I bought myself a personal pizza, want some?" cool guy, just not tech related sry

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terahurtsHave you tried turning it off and on again?•

'It's my birthday, cakes for EVERYONE!'

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0xdeadc0d3•

Leaving me the fuck alone is always nice.

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[deleted]•

this attitude is just as much a problem as users that are unwilling to learn or troubleshoot.

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toastedbutts•

Hey, my workstation's broke? is it okay to switch it with someone's who is on vacation until you can get here?

YESSSSSSSSSSSS

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lextenoudoes the needful•

"Oh, we just found out - we don't need you to find that expansive and expensive software suite replacement. Someone already had the exact software suite you recommended six months ago. It was hidden in their desk drawer and they forgot about it."

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Anna_DraconisToken female sysadmin•

I e-mail my boss funny pictures I find on reddit, and he in turn shows me funny pictures on the Chive. We used to watch Starcraft videos together on Youtube in the lab, but upper management had him put his foot down on that saying it was killing our productivity.... :(

Now I can't youtube in the lab anymore when I'm working on computers, and it's killed my productivity.

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snapmouse•

I'd go out of my way to help that person. Entertainment!

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badgernuke•

Yes, help me!

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mistralol•

Used to have a guy who said.

Watch this watch this. He just touches it and it works again. Its some kind of magic trick :)

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rubber_sumo•

....I wish I had a good answer to this.

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