Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 21:27:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Faye Levine To: User Services Students Subject: Can I kill just a few prekees? Some of you may have seen my maint report about the mangled PS/2 80 hard drive in UCC. Within 1 hour of posting and slapping a maint report over the monitor, I had 2 prekees start it up and start playing with it. "Please don't mess with the machine," I said, "It's down right now." "You got a DOS boot disk?" one said. (The machine can't boot on its own right now.) "Yes," I replied, "I looked at it earlier, but couldn't figure out exacly what was wrong, and couldn't get it running properly." The prekie then proceeded to politely make fun of my maint report's speculation on what the problem might be. "Please just don't mess with it," I told him. He then proceeded to go to the IIcx with the bad keyboard/other problems, toss the maint sign on it aside, and try to use it! Later, another prekie came in and asked me for a boot disk for the 80, telling me he had a good idea what was wrong and could correct the problem. I politely informed him that a report had been filed, and that maintenence would get on it. He kept insisting he could fix it. Finally I turned to him and said "Look--I already filed the maint report, ok? If I let you play with it, and you screw it up even worse, it's going to be my butt in a sling." "But," he replied, "It would be easy--like Mario Andretti's pit crew changing a flat tire." "NO," I told the kid. "Look, I don't mean to be rude, but I would appreciate it if you'd just leave the machine alone, okay?" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, what is it? Is it because I'm a naiive-looking girl? DON'T ANSWER THAT! Grr, snarl, chomp, munch, and castration, FLOM. Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 22:27:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Faye Levine To: User Services Students Subject: Re: Can I kill just a few prekees? Just a followup: Prekie #2 kept bugging me abouit the model 80. I said, "Look, I know you think I'm the epitome of stupidity, but let me handle the problem." Tom Strong came into the CON office, and I griped about what happened. "Where's the User Stick?" he asked. "I think someone in their infinite wisdom removed it, knowing that the prekies would be here soon.," I told him. Tom tossed me his keys. "Go out to my car. In the back there's an object which I think you'll find suitable for this situation." I went out to the car. I came back with one of those really big SCA "broadsword"s. "Thanks, Tom!" I called out as I walked back to the office. The annoying Prekie turned, saw me walking in with a big smile on my face and an even bigger weapon in my hand, and for just a moment, his face took on an unmistakable look of panic. "Oh, sh*t!" he squeaked. Heh-heh-HEH.......!!!!!!!!!! Of course, I'm much to nice to actually *threaten* the kid, let alone actually *hurt* him. No, I just walked right by, smiling insanely. I feel much better now. FLOM.