Desktop Tech Sent To Prison For An Education On Strange Places To Put Tattoos
The Register, Friday, February 20th, 2026
And a very awkward introduction to workplace culture
By the end of the working week, it's natural to feel the walls closing in a little, which is why every Friday morning The Register frees things up a little by publishing a new installment of On Call - the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories.
This week, we present another story from a reader we recently Regomized as Carl, who in the early 1990s took a job doing desktop and local area network support at a US police department that operated a prison.
Carl arrived to find an enormous to-do list and a very busy IT team who were strangely unwelcoming.