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The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

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Re: The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

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wat10000 wrote: post #102
circlefavshape wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There are worse crimes in the world, but it is bad Bollocks, and bollocks to the parent hot take. Any moral framework that forbids fun, whether it's because it offends God or "causes people (a tiny bit of) stress", is repugnant to me

It's not the offense, it's the wasted time and money. Think of one of those meeting timers that counts in dollars instead of minutes. Now apply that to all the time spent by random people calling the main office, and by the main office fielding all those calls. It's one thing to cost your employer thousands of dollars because you made a mistake (I'm sure we've all been there), and quite another to cost your employer…

> It's not the offense, it's the wasted time and money. Think of one of those meeting timers that counts in dollars instead of minutes.

Yes, think about it. Captcha, (Windows) updates, crappy UIs updated every couple of months, new features instead of bug fixing. _That_ is wasted time and money.

Re: The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

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wat10000 wrote: post #139
freehorse wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> timers that counts in dollars instead of minutes Not the best way to measure time imo.

The whole point is to measure what really matters to the business, instead of measuring time.

> The whole point is to measure what really matters to the business, instead of measuring time.

We tried to speak with management about it. They wouldn't listen.

Re: The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

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lynx97 wrote: post #31
glimshe wrote: post #22

Hot take: workplace and social media April Fools jokes aren't funny and are often inappropriate and disrespectful to people's time. It's cool to do these to your friends in High school, but I once wasted a good amount of time at work because of an April's fool joke. I already didn't want to do the work so I got really upset to have wasted time doing something boring and useless. Additionally, the scale of social medi…

Haha, the times they are a changing. I still remember c't april fools joke from the 90s where they published a scencil (template) to indicate where you have to drill a hole into your pentium CPU to be able to overclock it. I still chuckle about the whole thing almost 30 years after the fact, still wondering how many morons actually destroyed their perfectly working CPU back then. At times, active thinking of your pee…

> wondering how many morons actually destroyed their perfectly working CPU back then.

Well, if they knew where the CPU is, and still drilled a hole through it, they deserved it.

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myself248 wrote: post #121

In high school, we had a Netware 3.12 environment, and the Guest account was enabled, albeit with very limited privileges. But for some reason, Guest could still use NET SEND, which popped up a little message in the bottom row of the destination machine's display. The whole district shared a T1 connection to the internet. Which was more than plenty for email, but as this world-wide-web thing started gaining traction,…

This was a better way to find out about NET SEND than attempting to use it for a somewhat vulgar in-joke to a work buddy one desk over, and instead popping a message on every single one of the about 10,000 PCs installed throughout the bank where you work.

Despite being phone support (think "cattle") I didn't get fired or indeed anything at all past a half-shocked, half-laughing "never ever do that again" sort of chat, and even that not from any of the floor mommies or daddies who were careful not to have to notice any of this, but just my line manager who might have been all of five years older than I was then. I assume this was slightly because I was extremely good at the job, and mainly for the sake of whoever in IT's job it was to make sure nobody could officially do what I, somehow, in the end turned out only unofficially to have done.

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Post by TRiG_Ireland »

myself248 wrote: post #121

In high school, we had a Netware 3.12 environment, and the Guest account was enabled, albeit with very limited privileges. But for some reason, Guest could still use NET SEND, which popped up a little message in the bottom row of the destination machine's display. The whole district shared a T1 connection to the internet. Which was more than plenty for email, but as this world-wide-web thing started gaining traction,…

My bother reports that he was once using the computer lab, and some other lads were in the room looking at things they ought not on a college computer. They were also being loud and annoying and distracting him from his work, so he sent them a message telling them to report to the head of department. They disappeared quickly and left him in peace. (This was using Net Send on Windows XP, I think.)
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