Passwords..

[Banthor the Unruly]

Most likely an employee is trying to login as him on a different computer.. or the employee might have logged into a diff computer (we're a huge company) and instead of logging it out he locks up the computer.

Co-worker who needs to access the locked up computer fails password on it 6 times to "teach him a lesson".

That always used to happen in the computer lab I used to be in charge of, why didn't I think of that!!

Curse my polite Boy Scout upbringing!!!!

[Diablo]

When I was in the Navy, the M-division office had three computers to use for everything. We had around 136 guys in the division. We were only allowed to use email after 5pm and before 6am. As you can imagine, there was always a line. We had this new Master Chief put in charge of us. He felt that the one computer was his to use only. So he would lock the computer out. Naturally we would just "SCRAM" it. Scram of course is a term for emergency shutting down the nuclear reactors on board. Well he started getting pissed off that when he would show up in the morning, his computer wasn't still locked up by his account. He refused to allow us access to the office or the computers for a month. I don't care how pissed he was, not allowing us to contact our families for a month is a dick move. So we broke into the office and rearranged all the keys on the three keyboards in alphabetical order. Its the funniest thing in the word seeing someone that can't type without staring at the keys not being able to see the keys. Rather than ask us to fix them, he had to do everything in another office. He also learned not to ask us to make his coffee for him anymore. I guess he started to notice the taste of urine.

[Banthor the Unruly]

We had this new Master Chief put in charge of us....

Wait, there is actual Master Chief rank? I thought that was something Bungie made up for Halo.

hmm, I guess that would explain why those Marines were looking at me funny.

[Andara Bledin]

I was pissed, as 1) my desk looks into the computer lab and 2) I stepped out to use the bathroom, and he lost a good 30 minutes worth of confidential information I had been working on.

Save early, save often, and don't even think about leaving your desk without saving.

I save my work somewhat obsessively these days. I have one Excel file I use for data management that I at least look at numerous times over the course of the day. I've found myself hitting the save button even when I haven't made any entries or changes.

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