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It only lasted long enough for me to notice the laptop screen had dimmed, observe that the little green LED on the power adapter had gone out, check my phone (plugged in next to me) and confirm that it also wasn't charging, try a light, try the bedroom light, then go through to the kitchen to try that light - which came on, and just then I heard the chime of the iMac powering back up
No further outages since, so I've taken a chance by putting the washing machine on; cashmere jumpers, hand wash cycle.
I ended up in IT because it was less boring than Accounts
I think I met too many people in IT on the piss and they were normal. The only ones I met in offices I temped in where the sys admins and desktop support. The sys admins were interesting to talk to as they explained how they spied on people. Oddly I didn't go down that route...
"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR
I think I met too many people in IT on the piss and they were normal. The only ones I met in offices I temped in where the sys admins and desktop support. The sys admins were interesting to talk to as they explained how they spied on people. Oddly I didn't go down that route...
Some of the systems guys at Ye Olde Sloughe of Desponde were distinctly odd, but that's me as the kettle calling the pot black.
Or something.
Apparently I tended to frighten them.
I think that threatening to chuck stuff in the dock tended to give them pause.
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