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Things That I Forgot That I Knew
A series of true stories from my life thus far (V1)
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Once upon a time, I worked for the feds. Yes, those feds. While sitting quietly and working unbelievably hard (hard to fathom since it’s the government and all), I began to hear hurried sounds as they scattered among the other cubicles. Murmurs. Aggravated whispered tones. Accusations. Scurrying from space to space, department to department. Finally, my boss popped his head around my “wall”.
“I don’t suppose that you hit the ‘reply to all’ button on that last agency-wide email, did you?”
“I’m smart enough to not only keep you out of trouble but keep myself from being implicated so no, it wasn’t me. Why? What’s up?”
The director of the facility sent out an agency-wide email. It was meant to be a one-way communication. That is until some lunkhead hit ‘reply to all’. The server was not only jammed up, but it was on the verge of crashing.
Shocked but not shocked by all of it. There’s always that one person…naturally this time they were in my department.
Time for a transfer.
