The Blackout of 2003!!!! (551 hits)
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Submitted by Thanatos (View user info) at 2003-08-21 09:58:39 EDT
One of the first things I learned on the job was that our IT department was full of morons. Time after time they managed to screw things up, and this was just the latest example. I was sitting in my cube, with nothing to do. Our web access had been cut off because they apparently didn't see the thousands of news stories last week about the new worm on the net, and only decided to fix it after a bunch of computers were infected. So I sat in my cube, trying to look busy, surfing the companies intranet site.
Click, zzztt, beep.
That was the sound of my computer, the lights, and everything else going off. We had lost power.
"Oh, no!!!" The BLACKOUT of 2003 is here!!!!"
Apparently while no one was looking it had moved from the northeast all the way to Minnesota. Good thing those news anchors had warned us how devastating the blackout was. I was so scared and worried, I had to sit in my semi-dark cube and take a nap. Well I couldn't sleep that well, so I wandered the office, talking to people and generally just trying to do as little as possible. I was about to say fuck it and go home, when the power came back on. Damn, I wanted to go home and swim. Oh well, 45 minutes without power was 45 minutes I didn't have to pretend to be working.
Beware all UberUsers, the !!Blackout 2003!! may strike you next.
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Submitted by Goldneyes (user info) at 2003-08-21 13:21:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You're in minnesota too? cool now that makes 3 of us!
Submitted by KireDesu (user info) at 2003-08-21 11:42:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
"Oh well, 45 minutes without power was 45 minutes I didn't have to pretend to be working."
That's the spirit!
Submitted by Justme (user info) at 2003-08-21 11:39:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
u think we can get one while i am in school perferably ( 7. 30 A.m - 10:30 a.m) cause then i wont have to be on the DAMN computer this early!!!!!!!!
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2003-08-21 11:27:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I wish I had powers to make blackouts occur. There'd be a few places I'd blackout permanently.
Submitted by dirtypaws <@springmail.com> at 2003-08-21 11:21:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I would LOVE a blackout here in Atlanta. I wouldn't work for days because of the trama. Knowing my luck they'd have me out in Dallas and I'd miss the whole damn thing. Fucking bastards.
>^,,^<
Submitted by PopNFresh (user info) at 2003-08-21 10:42:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
-- Homer Simpson
Colonel Homer
Submitted by Rivers_Liebig (user info) at 2003-08-21 10:02:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Ah, so that's what's been wrong with the little fella. He misses
casual sex.
-- Homer Simpson
Two Dozen and One Greyhounds