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So, last week when I arrived at work on Monday my computer wouldn't work. And I was not terribly bothered at first, I felt like working in the Training room, anyway. Wanted to rub elbows with the greasy masses or whatever. But along about Wednesday I wanted to use some aspect of the abilities of my official laptop, so I went and started rebooting it and otherwise paying attention to it... but it was having none of that. Finally I called tech support and they said they would stop by and re-image it.
Tuesday Moose returned from the training he'd been at, and I told him a tech was supposed to show up any minute to re-image my computer, and he said, "That's funny. It worked when I left."
"Ah," sez I, "You must have broke it, then."
"Well, actually..."
I guess making him laugh took him off guard, and he confessed he'd actually been startled by someone speaking to him, spun around, and his elbow clipped his huge iced coffee, spilling it right across the keyboard.
Knowing that I kind of had to admit it to the tech when he showed up, and he popped the back off and said it was pretty obvious that it WAS liquid damage. I think he was glad I'd just saved him an hour of pointless struggle, because he would have found that eventually. I asked it it might have been saved if Moose had pulled the battery and left it to dry for a week rather than turning it back on to check if it still worked, but the tech said no, the sugar in the coffee would have still shorted the hard drive even if it had been dry.
And you might wonder why I 'let' Moose use my computer, but I almost welcome that question from the higher-ups. Frankly, they make the two of us share a cubical half the size of the guy next door (the guy, in fact, who startled Moose and caused him to spill his coffee), and there is not space to set up two docking stations, so we had set up my computer as primary and he usually worked in the Training room, unless I wasn't there. Now his computer is set up as primary I'll probably just be in the Training room a lot more. If they would have given us enough space it probably at least would have been his machine that bit it, rather than mine.
Tuesday Moose returned from the training he'd been at, and I told him a tech was supposed to show up any minute to re-image my computer, and he said, "That's funny. It worked when I left."
"Ah," sez I, "You must have broke it, then."
"Well, actually..."
I guess making him laugh took him off guard, and he confessed he'd actually been startled by someone speaking to him, spun around, and his elbow clipped his huge iced coffee, spilling it right across the keyboard.
Knowing that I kind of had to admit it to the tech when he showed up, and he popped the back off and said it was pretty obvious that it WAS liquid damage. I think he was glad I'd just saved him an hour of pointless struggle, because he would have found that eventually. I asked it it might have been saved if Moose had pulled the battery and left it to dry for a week rather than turning it back on to check if it still worked, but the tech said no, the sugar in the coffee would have still shorted the hard drive even if it had been dry.
And you might wonder why I 'let' Moose use my computer, but I almost welcome that question from the higher-ups. Frankly, they make the two of us share a cubical half the size of the guy next door (the guy, in fact, who startled Moose and caused him to spill his coffee), and there is not space to set up two docking stations, so we had set up my computer as primary and he usually worked in the Training room, unless I wasn't there. Now his computer is set up as primary I'll probably just be in the Training room a lot more. If they would have given us enough space it probably at least would have been his machine that bit it, rather than mine.
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