Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Computers Suck, but Not Having Them is Worse.

Today at work, one of the company's computer servers crashed...and so did it's backup. This crash left the entire company without the ability to access their hard drives or print anything. Since my job is to type up orders and print them, I could not perform my job duties.

So far, there is nothing fascinating about this story. But wait, there's more...

I ask my boss what I should do in light of the situation, and she thinks it would probably be best for me to just go home early.

Score!

She checks with her boss, the owner of the company, to make sure it's okay, and is informed that we have some urgent orders that need to be typed and printed immediately. Given that this is impossible through conventional methods, she had to come up with a less orthodox way for me to do accomplish this task.

Here comes the kicker...

She pulls out a typewriter. Yes, a typewriter. Like they used back in the old-timey days. I was forced to spend the last two hours of my day trying to do my job with a prehistoric chunk of metal.

Kill me now.

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