Wednesday, February 2, 2011

I'm Surrounded by A$$h@les!

When I started here at Jackass Inc., I was given a used work area and a used machine. Which is what I've had at most jobs. It's pretty rare (at least in my experience) to walk into a place that has purchased new equipment just for you. 

So, as I worked I found preferences set in the software that I end up changing to my liking. Again, no biggie. A few days into it, the software update jumps up and tells me I have updates I can install. It didn't look like anything important so I let it go.

A week or so later it popped up again and this time it was security updates and some other things that looked important. I clicked "OK" and only made it to the prompt of user password. I looked around the desk (which still had plenty of papers strewn about it from the last sucker) looking for a post-it or something that looked like it would have the password written down. To no avail. Nothing I found worked.

Another day or so went by and I decided to try a couple of random passwords. Things like the company name, owner's name, department names, previous employee names... nothing worked. Now, by this time, I had been here long enough to know that most everyone here was an idiot. I then thought of the movie Spaceballs and the scene regarding the security code. You know where the code ends up being 1-2-3-4-5? Then Rick Moranis says, "1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!". I tried the security code of 1-2-3-4-5 on my machine, laughing to myself as I did...and it worked.

I thought it was funny so I told "Matt" about it. To which Matt replied, "yeah, that's the code for all the machines here. Genius right?"

Genius indeed!


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