[RKDinOKC]

Kinda funny, we had that guy that was a machinist that was helping everyone with their home computers. When there was an opening for that specific job they told him he could be gruff and hard to get along with. All of the people he had been helping were stunned.

They hired a guy from outside the company. His first help task was with one of the guys in my department. He was very short, did not sound happy, and got pissy with anyone that tried to talk to him. He very quickly got the nickname "Smiley". After a couple of years they had to let him go for some thing he did, he was always poking around in things he wasn't supposed to.

After firing him they hired the machinist guy and he worked out wonderfully until the day he died.

On my Mac servers I burry a program down in the system stuff that nobody should be snooping in. The files is called "sexygirl" and has an icon of a woman's head with long hair. The program would set itself as the startup app, then put up a block screen the the Mac system error bomb on it. The funny thing was if you tired to click on Restart the button would run from the mouse pointer so you could never click on it. The had to call me to get the machine back. You clicked the cancel button instead of restart. I called it my bird dog program.

I also made several of the more serious error screens say. "You computer had totally freaked out. Contact Richard as soon a possible!" It was hilarious about 3 years later when a user called me and told me her computer says it totally freaked out! I had forgotten completely about it. She said she like it because it got help quick.