Techie 'Forgot' To Tell Boss Their Cost-Saving Idea Meant A Day Of Gaming
The Register, Monday, December 15th, 2025
One keypress turned a tricky Windows NT balancing act into a life of leisure
After a weekend of R&R, The Register welcomes you back to the working week with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace errors and indiscretions and reveal how you survived to tell the tale.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Hannah" who told us about a job she had in the early 2000s at a workplace that mostly used PCs but still relied on thin clients to access some Windows NT workloads.
The thin clients were an anachronism, but not a problem unless the system image on their internal storage became corrupt.