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This is something that happened during my year in the Norwegian army.
After basic I ended up as an assistant at what is basically the military’s recreational department. We ensured that the soldiers had a good selection of things they could do in their time off duty.
We had several computers that soldiers could use to surf the internet, these were placed in a row on the left side of our entrance (this was the only public entrance for the entire second floor of our building), anyone who entered that door could not miss seeing those screens.
We were not the only ones on that floor. 2 Lieutenants, 1 Major and 1 Lieutenant colonel had offices down the hall. There were also some civilians who had a large circulation of officers and other military personnel coming to them.
Safe to say, there were a lot of officers passing those computers.
At one point a certain trend began, people started changing the desktop background. I know what you are thinking, “that doesn’t sound too bad”.
But why would I be posting this then?
Think about it. Military, almost only males of the age between 18 and 25.
What do you guess they changed the background to?
If you guessed semi-naked to fully naked girls, you win a cookie!
As I noted earlier there were a high traffic of officers past those computers so I had to change the background quite often. I even had a fellow asking why in the world I would want to change the background.
As I said, a lot of officers, civilians and girls, (including 2 in my platoon that worked down the hall. They did not like those pictures). We had a reputation to preserve.
And this was public computers, what the frack was going through their head?
Had it been their private laptops I would not have cared. But public ones? Not nice toward us.
Toward the end of my year in the army I hated my customers. I screamed in joy the day i was given my discharge papers.
Addendum!
The reason for why we didn't just have the IT department make it so that nobody could change the background is that the computers were Linux.
And IT didn't know how to do that in Linux. Nobody else did either.
After basic I ended up as an assistant at what is basically the military’s recreational department. We ensured that the soldiers had a good selection of things they could do in their time off duty.
We had several computers that soldiers could use to surf the internet, these were placed in a row on the left side of our entrance (this was the only public entrance for the entire second floor of our building), anyone who entered that door could not miss seeing those screens.
We were not the only ones on that floor. 2 Lieutenants, 1 Major and 1 Lieutenant colonel had offices down the hall. There were also some civilians who had a large circulation of officers and other military personnel coming to them.
Safe to say, there were a lot of officers passing those computers.
At one point a certain trend began, people started changing the desktop background. I know what you are thinking, “that doesn’t sound too bad”.
But why would I be posting this then?
Think about it. Military, almost only males of the age between 18 and 25.
What do you guess they changed the background to?
If you guessed semi-naked to fully naked girls, you win a cookie!
As I noted earlier there were a high traffic of officers past those computers so I had to change the background quite often. I even had a fellow asking why in the world I would want to change the background.
As I said, a lot of officers, civilians and girls, (including 2 in my platoon that worked down the hall. They did not like those pictures). We had a reputation to preserve.
And this was public computers, what the frack was going through their head?
Had it been their private laptops I would not have cared. But public ones? Not nice toward us.
Toward the end of my year in the army I hated my customers. I screamed in joy the day i was given my discharge papers.
Addendum!
The reason for why we didn't just have the IT department make it so that nobody could change the background is that the computers were Linux.
And IT didn't know how to do that in Linux. Nobody else did either.
Granted, I wouldn't know how to do that on Linux, but I'm in charge of a Windows office, not a Linux one ^_^ The worst part is, the OP had to waste a lot of time cleaning up after these zeebs.
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