Facebook Prank Sent Techie Straight To Excel Hell
The Register, Monday, July 22nd, 2024
When someone kicks a chair across the room out of fear they'll be fired it's stopped being funny
It's another Monday, dear reader, which means the working week has begun anew. On the bright side, it also means another dose of the reader-submitted tales of IT hijinks we call Who, Me?
This week our hero - if we can call him that - is a jokester we'll Regomize as "Mark" who once worked for a huge corporate in the kind of busy office you see in the movies where everyone's always busy doing business of some sort.
This was in the early days of social media. Facebook was quite a new thing and few businesses had yet devised policies about whether or not it was appropriate to use it during work hours. Mark had a colleague - let's call him "Dave" - who was quite taken with the ol' Facebook, and the eerie blue glow of The Social Network could often be seen radiating out from his cubicle.