How I added More Magic to users' lives.

Previously, on This One Job I Had:
Working ten minutes a day; getting paid for eight hours
What I did with all that spare time
How I got Fridays off for my manager
Now read on...  

 
The script I'd written (in Ten Minutes, above) had succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. Apart from the very occasional printer jam, changing the backup tapes, and occasionally rescuing users from fat-fingering, I had most of the day to myself.

Unfortunately, however, the script was very crude and in certain (rare) cases it would need a once-off alteration to a particular file in order to have enough information to do its job in future. This was an example of when I really, really wanted the user to call me directly instead of Trying Something Themselves. So instead of putting up an message saying "Call the tech guy", it displayed:  

 
"Error! Not enough magic."  

 
This fulfilled the purpose of getting people to call me immediately, because the message was so bizarre that they just wanted someone to make it Go Away. Of course, I'd rigged the script so that when they ran it for the first time after my adjustment on the server back end, it displayed:  

 
"More magic found!"  

 
...and continued merrily on its way.  

 
tl;dr: My Little Program: FUDship is Magic
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