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Old 07-16-2015, 03:32 PM
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Back in the early 90s I was playing a game off of a floppy disk on a company PC while working night shift, and our IT engineer happened to be staying late and caught me. He laughed it off but I wasn't sure how much trouble I was in. I thought we were friends.

The PC wasn't networked yet so we had to back up everything on a tape drive and send the tapes to corporate. So the engineer typed up a phony letter on our company letterhead, from the corporate IT department head to him, saying he was going through our backup tapes and noticed some "save game" files that don't belong there. Telling him that game playing on company PCs, let alone company time is unacceptable, and that it must be dealt with.

He showed it to me and I nearly shit my pants. I thought I was getting fired for playing Jeopardy? No, I think it was Bass fishing. Either way, best joke ever.
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