Reply to: Anyone here been suspended over joke emails?

[MarillionFan]

"What is it you do again, dear?"

He's a toilet cleaner in IBM

[Old Greg]

"What is it you do again, dear?"

Something in computers.

[mudskipper]

My mum thinks I 'work in computers' so can help her with her PC. I tell her I have junior colleagues with personal hygiene issues and no social skills to deal with that, so she phones my brother, who does something to do with oracle.

"What is it you do again, dear?"

[Old Greg]

You know that to journalists anyone who can switch on a computer is an 'expert' or 'IT boffin'.

My mum thinks I 'work in computers' so can help her with her PC. I tell her I have junior colleagues with personal hygiene issues and no social skills to deal with that, so she phones my brother, who does something to do with oracle.

[doodab]

I once had a test server with a slightly dubious hostname. I typed it into a browser during a client demo and instead of the local domain it resolved it to hostname.com which unsurprisingly was utter filth. This was in the days before popup blockers, i literally had to switch the machine off to get rid of the resulting porn storm.

Luckily people in those days had a sense of humour.

[Support Monkey]

I worked on the call desk for a major magazine publisher (FHM-Max Power) and we had several callers who were fed up with receiving spam emails full of porn and wanted us to block them, we would then have to point out if we stopped people in the company looking at porn we would go out of business

[Bunk]

"A computer expert... Hotmail address"

Does not compute

You know that to journalists anyone who can switch on a computer is an 'expert' or 'IT boffin'.

[Lockhouse]

In the early 1990s I worked at a brokerage not a million miles from London Bridge where the head of IT would use the company dial up lines to connect to hooky BBS (remember them!) in the US to download "scans" (as they were then) of Pr0n which was then stored on the company fileservers.

[MarillionFan]

What is this hotmail snobbery?

Hotmail is obviously the 'Daily Mail' of the email world.

[Sysman]

"A computer expert... Hotmail address"

Does not compute

I also wondered why the employer allows access into their system using a hotmail account.

[The_Equalizer]

"A computer expert... Hotmail address"

Does not compute

What is this hotmail snobbery?

[NotAllThere]

"A computer expert... Hotmail address"

Does not compute

Could have been trying to be clever, since hotmail accounts are regularly hacked. "Wasn't me, guv".

[MarillionFan]

I was once given written warning for throwing things.

Yep. That hanky could have had someones eye out.

[AtW]

I was once given written warning for throwing things.

[bobspud]

I was once fired for making hardcore porn movies in the server room, cutting them on my machine and then running a porn business from a machine under the desk. I made a fortune.

Dimprawn

Were you at a comms company in or near Norfolk at the time?

There was a very interesting EBAY business discovered around 2006 and it sounds familiar