From: Pieter
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:03:38 +0200
Subject: for the Just PFY user contributions section

It's Tuesday.

More specifically it's the Tuesday just after the Christmas weekend.  I just
spent the whole weekend doing everything from drinking to scuba-diving and am
feeling tired and not in the mood for work.  I slither into the office hoping
no-one notices me.  It's 8:05 and the aircon already says it's 27 degrees.
It's gonna be a hot day.  I check e-mail, and see nothing worth replying to.
I check other lusers e-mail and see more posts from adultmail.net... bastard
CAD operator shall have to be taught a lesson.  (He's also the one I caught
snooping into my office to read my mail, and then forwarding personal mail
to boss... he was warned... seriously... nothing like have to redo a plan
you've worked on for 5 days.

[12:45] Beancounter walks in with smirk on face.  Next to him is company's
new head beancounter.  The old one is retiring and over eager-friggin'-beaver
that he is, tries to impress new lad (who looks like he needs mail sent to
alt.binaries.need.new.facial-expression).  They need a list of all the machines
in the office, since some of it might be useful (like they'll do anything
with the 4 x 386's in the one office standing unused for the past 1 1/2
years).

After long discussion (and interruption of my IRC session) I set about making
the list... highly annoyed.  Who the heck works so hard between Xmas and new
year anyway.

[14:25] I Return from lunch (and picking up new FreeBSD 3.4 CD) from a
friend.  I find there is exactly 4 people still in the office excluding me.
Nice... now I can't get into offices to see what friggen' old Seikosha 9
chr/p minute printers the old gits have.  New beancounter person seems to
follow everything with a hawkeye... idiot.

Instead of doing the full Access database thing I slap together a little
Excel spreadsheet and start drawing from memory who has what machine, and
how many times they've broken it... certain names come up more than
others... including my CAD-adultmail.net friend.

[15:00] Most of the list is finished... now to roam the offices looking for
printer names... I hate this job.