Monthly Archives: July 2026

Back in the late ’90s, I worked in the IT department at a MegaCorporation. The company had ten floors of a building in the Big City, and maybe a thousand employees working there. Our job was old-school IT — PC support. New PC comes in, you install it. Old PC dies, you fix it or take it away. Install software. Unbreak stuff that the user broke. Install hardware upgrades. You know the drill. Can’t count how many hours of my life I’ve wasted swapping floppy disks, and the three most dreaded words in the English language are “I can’t print.” I had a lot of crazy experiences back in those days, and thirty years later, I feel it’s time to share a couple of the best…