Things I Am Not Allowed To Do At Work, Part 8

[delta_mike]

( Previously. Recap: University sysadmin.)

• Refer to my office as the 'holding cell'.
• Remove the world-executable bit from /bin/rm, because "the users can't be trusted to use it safely."
• Demonstrate my dominion over the undergraduate lab by scripting all of the lab machines to sequentially eject and withdraw their CD drive trays in a continuous mexican

Comments

[delta_mike]

I don't necessarily do all of these things..

... but I'm thinking it.

[dave_iii]

Can the "Judging You" one be used in a screen saver, instead?

[taleya]

Add Aerial Faith Plate markings to the floor-tiles in the machine-room.

BRB, looking for paint.

[siliconshaman]

"Demonstrate my dominion over the undergraduate lab by scripting all of the lab machines to sequentially eject and withdraw their CD drive trays in a continuous mexican wave."

Dude, that's awesome! And that beats getting all the CNC machines to play 'La Cucaracha'.

[jamoche]

... or label individual lecture theatres and labs with test-chamber glyphs.

The conference rooms in my building are named after constellations. I really need to label them with Stargate glyphs.