Oops!
It's the eve of a much-publicized computer virus attack, and this pilot fish sends out a reminder to all users not to open any e-mails promising dirty pictures. Next day, he gets a distress call from an engineer. "His laptop had crashed," says fish. "He had skipped over my warning e-mail, which arrived first in his in-box, and opened the pornographic attachment to start his day! Much to his embarrassment, he had to explain to my boss what had happened in order to get IT to expedite the re-imaging of his laptop."
But thanks for asking
At the daily status meeting with users, IT pilot fish reports that the mainframe is running slowly because of month-end jobs. What does that mean? users ask. "I explained that there were more jobs running on the mainframe, which caused things to run longer and impacted getting things done in the normal time period," fish says. "Again they asked, so that means what? I then said slowly, 'Jobs... are... taking... longer.' They asked no further questions."
They also serve
College student pilot fish looking for a part-time IT job is excited when he gets a call: "We found your resume online and saw you were interested in being a server." Fish: As in someone who waits on people? "Yes." No, I'm looking for a job in IT where I can work on a server, not be a server. "Oh, I'm sorry. I wonder how that happened."
Hear no evil
PC is beeping continually, so support pilot fish calls in the PC specialist. "He opened the case, and when he left, there was no more beeping," fish reports. "Curious, I asked him what the problem was. He said he didn't know. What about the beeping? He disconnected the internal speaker so you couldn't hear it anymore. Within a few days, the PC crashed. Maybe the beeping was trying to tell him something?"
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