Waste of a perfectly good lie
Aug. 4th, 2003 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerI am an honest individual who would never stoop to taking advantage of a gullible individual. That's why this missed opportunity saddens me.
Friday, about 200 of us at work were hit with a virus purporting to be from admin@ our company with an urgent message about our logins. Clicking on it, as my boss did, brought up an empty popup. Being the suspicious type I reported it to our I/T people.
I chatted with them in the hallways a short while later and I found out it wouldn't affect us, because we don't have authority to change our programs. So no big deal, although if an I/T person had opened it up much havoc would result.
I persuaded the I/T guy to tell my boss that his computer was hopelessly fragged, all his data would be irrevocably lost, cats and dogs living together, etc.
But he wimped out. (sigh)
Friday, about 200 of us at work were hit with a virus purporting to be from admin@ our company with an urgent message about our logins. Clicking on it, as my boss did, brought up an empty popup. Being the suspicious type I reported it to our I/T people.
I chatted with them in the hallways a short while later and I found out it wouldn't affect us, because we don't have authority to change our programs. So no big deal, although if an I/T person had opened it up much havoc would result.
I persuaded the I/T guy to tell my boss that his computer was hopelessly fragged, all his data would be irrevocably lost, cats and dogs living together, etc.
But he wimped out. (sigh)
Spent this weekend doing lots of house fu (instead of going to Golden Stag auditions):
I sanded down the front doors, Dawn put on another coat of paint, the upstairs neighbors hacked back ivy and chopped up a planter bed in preparation for planting flax. Tiring but lots done. Ah, the joys of homeownership.
