All those ref'rences? You should beware!
Old employers, they really don't care.
They will do what's required
Just to get some guys hired,
So some slacker gets out of their hair.
To use Skype, my full name it would seek.
But my name will not work. I would freak!
To get into the game
I must misspell my name
Just like Babmbi and her friend Moanique.
Every month they would crash. What's the deal?
"Come and fix it again!" they would squeal.
What's the cause of their gripe?
'Twas an integer type.
That's not right for the time, dude! Get real!!!
THROWBACK THURSDAY'S LIMERICK
(Original limerick from when the story ran on
10/29/08)
The Controller they bought was a SCSI.
T'was thrown out with old food, green and fuzzy.
It was still in the bin,
So the fish jumped right in.
Guess that makes him a SCSI one, was he?
"Could you write this for me? I'm not proud!"
Our head programmer, she laughed out loud.
Programming skills are required -
Now, why was this girl hired?
I would say 'twas how well she's endowed.
In the days Compuserve was alive,
For clean user names, they would sure strive.
Many folks were dismayed
Like the lady who played
Beaver Cleaver's mom, fluent in Jive.
We thought filtering email was wise
In our industry, there's a surprise.
Those part names that we use
We will have to excuse
Since those parts were all named by some guys.
You think timesharing terminal's hard?
Think again, writes this techie nerd bard.
Other programmers howl.
"Hey! Us too!" they would growl.
"It sure beats punching boxes of cards."
THROWBACK THURSDAY LIMERICK
(The limerick I wrote when this story originally
ran on October 31, 2008)
The departmental teams had some plans
To share data by means of the LANs.
The heads needed to talk.
They did not need to walk,
They could just use some string and tin cans.
When he was spoke, he was really up front.
As an admin, he's sort of a grunt.
What would cause us to laugh?
'Twas his offensive graph.
So on this guy, we opted to punt.
'Bout their luggage these ladies both bragged
How they'd pack so the weights won't be flagged.
Every Tank reader knows
There's two dancers whose clothes
Could all fit in a small sandwich bag.
When I looked through my spam, one had showed
How the guy thought in programming mode.
While the message was spam
Which most users will damn,
But at least the guy comments his code...
At the label, this one clerk would say,
"Review orders? It's boring! No way!"
She discovered the risk
Via Lawrence Welk disk.
Now she listens to polkas all day!
THROWBACK THURSDAY LIMERICK
(My limerick from when the story originally ran on 11/21/08)
At the risk of my being demoted,
Used equipment was what I had quoted.
“Used equipment’s taboo,
You will quote only new!”
Hope the warning I got gets out-voted.
Boy, our purchasing group was depraved!
Every order we placed had been waived.
After making their touch,
The gear costs twice as much,
But just think of the money we saved!
Christmas Sunday, it's only straight pay?
The day after, it's double? No way!!!
With this grievance I've aired
With our readers who cared,
Let's observe this year's Festivus day!!!
"Don't put trees on the server!" we clucked.
Our advice, the darned office staff bucked.
On that box, there's a tree?
Y'all, it crashed! Glory be!
Like the server, their idea sucked.
When the go-live would happen at last,
There's some testing we'd run in a mass.
"But some tests! They would fail,"
The poor fish had to wail.
But in failing, it meant that they passed.
When the go-live would happen at last,
There's some testing we'd run in a mass.
"But some tests! They would fail,"
The poor fish had to wail.
But in failing, it meant that they passed.
One fine day at my tech support gig,
I had hoped they would bill those guys big.
Just what did those guys think?
Our report's on the blink
'Cause they're plugged to that thingamajig?!?
'Twas a mindset that some would call strange.
Though some updates they'll have to arrange,
Use Exchange? No darned way!
New provider? They say
They won't change 'til they're done with the
change.