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Posted: 9/18/2014 2:28:47 PM EDT

I was able to salvage 5 out of 7 pin pads that we can reuse rather than order new ones they run about ~$400 each so that saves us some money.

Edit: Nobody asked me to do this, I could have easily thrown them away and ordered new ones but I just don't like wasting money even if it's not my own.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:30:49 PM EDT

[#1]

I found a way to make a system completely crash.
Me finding it means development can fix it and the customer never sees it.

It is what I do. I tell people who make more money than I do, that their software is crap and they need to fix it.

Software QA for teh win!

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:31:32 PM EDT

[#2]

I showed up

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:36:16 PM EDT

[#3]

I pointed at people and said, "You fucked up." Then smiled.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:36:20 PM EDT

[#4]

agreed to go out of town for 4 days with 2 hours notice.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:36:33 PM EDT

[#5]

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Posted: 9/18/2014 2:37:09 PM EDT

[#6]

I stayed home.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:37:18 PM EDT

[#7]

Its my day off

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:39:17 PM EDT

[#8]

I woke up.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:39:56 PM EDT

[#9]

Handed some work off to someone who gives a fuck

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:40:30 PM EDT

[#10]

I burned poop.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:42:14 PM EDT

[#11]

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That's what I was going to say. I did plunge a toilet rather than call a plumber.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:43:26 PM EDT

[#12]

I surfed ARFcom a bunch.

Also kept some bad parts from being installed on an airplane, so there's that.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:45:23 PM EDT

[#13]

I'm off today. Best thing I could do for the company.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:46:26 PM EDT

[#14]

Day off, I have not done shit.

But if I did, it would cost them 3 hours of OT, to do anything.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:47:02 PM EDT

[#15]

Cover sheets on all my TPS reports. No misplaced decimal points. Radio at a reasonable volume.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:50:17 PM EDT

[#16]

SBO and operated here. Some days I think I do more damage than good.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:53:10 PM EDT

[#17]

Paid several employees above industry average wages.
Kept the FSA at bay for another week.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:53:13 PM EDT

[#18]

Not a damn thing.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:53:49 PM EDT

[#19]

Escorting the video crew around who's doing a marketing campaign for a particular product that we use. Free advertising for us. I'm supposed to be interviewed later today.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:54:04 PM EDT

[#20]

Conference call today with a company that specializes in documentation sharing and compliance. When we first started with them I sent one of their folks a note that their website sucked. A week later I was on a conference call with their CEO. marketing, web development people and helped them redesign the site to be more user friendly. I'm now their "Super User", they waive our monthly service fee which saves my company about $5K a year. I reminded the boss about it today at lunch.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:55:43 PM EDT

[#21]

Settled a case.

Posted: 9/18/2014 2:57:45 PM EDT

[#22]

Working for free today.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:00:57 PM EDT

[#23]

I haven't strangled or punched anybody yet.

couple of hours left though.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:01:33 PM EDT

[#24]

I showed up.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:02:46 PM EDT

[#25]

Produced about $400k of product.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:03:03 PM EDT

[#26]

Fixed a plating fixture that some other dumbass took apart and didn't understand how to put it back together.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:03:13 PM EDT

[#27]

I haven't been to work yet but I don't plan on doing much.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:03:13 PM EDT

[#28]

Got one store into the black from three years in the red.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:04:30 PM EDT

[#29]

FBHO

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:05:59 PM EDT

[#30]

kissed a bunch O customer ass to keep from losing them.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:11:21 PM EDT

[#31]

The same thing I do every day, Pinky, unscrewed other people's failures.

On the rare occasion that I get ahead, I build more stuff to protect them from themselves. Of course, that just means that their failures get harder for me to fix and take longer.

Last year, I saved the company approximately my salary in addition to completing my normal workload. I got a whopping 1% bonus and a demotion, unlike the previous years which were much more lucrative for me.

On a brighter note, I woke up alive, employed, and still working from home. I really shouldn't complain. Life is pretty good, overall.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:32:12 PM EDT

[#32]

I stayed home.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:44:57 PM EDT

[#33]

I quit today and will be on a plane to a foreign country tomorrow, thereby keeping my brain and heart in the same place. Its for the best.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:49:40 PM EDT

[#34]

I tested a web application for security holes and drove to an office to pull a laptop out of circulation that was phoning home to China. I just now finished eating lunch.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:52:44 PM EDT

[#35]

I showed up for work

Made people mad.

Hilarity ensued

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:54:12 PM EDT

[#36]

It was the new secretary's birthday. The office manager, a fantastic baker, made this cake with bananas, peanut butter, and bacon. Made coming to work well worth it.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:54:20 PM EDT

[#37]

Found a job module in a production job that was not archiving data properly or deleting temporary files off of the transfer file server. Will delay having to buy another $250K transfer file server for a couple of years.

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:58:59 PM EDT

[#38]

I was off today

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:59:51 PM EDT

[#39]

I saved the company about 5 million on a project. does that count?

Posted: 9/18/2014 3:59:53 PM EDT

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pretty much

Posted: 9/18/2014 4:00:58 PM EDT

[#41]

I'm not sure exactly what I did, but apparently it deserved a bottle of Valpolicella Ripasso on my office desk while I stepped out for half an hour.

Posted: 9/18/2014 4:01:28 PM EDT

[#42]

The Purchasing Department is still alive. That is all I'm going to say.

Posted: 9/18/2014 4:08:34 PM EDT

[#43]

I didn't go on a shooting spree.

Posted: 9/18/2014 4:12:37 PM EDT

[#44]

Took a vacation day

Posted: 9/18/2014 4:13:44 PM EDT

[#45]

I SOLD SOME SHIT!

Posted: 9/18/2014 4:14:43 PM EDT

[#46]

Kept stupid people from doing something stupid. Pretty much do that every day.

Posted: 9/18/2014 4:22:33 PM EDT

[#47]

I did not set my desk on fire.

Posted: 9/18/2014 4:23:34 PM EDT

[#48]

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Elaborate.

Posted: 9/18/2014 4:42:28 PM EDT

[#49]

Made the boss a grandslam breakfast this morning since she has to sit all day thriough an eight digit mediation without a lunch break

Posted: 9/18/2014 4:55:31 PM EDT

[#50]

I prevented a battery.

I changed my mind

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