Thud!

Your job is to make them FEAR calling you. How can you work when people are calling? So, you make them pay for calling in the first place. What would you do?" "Delete their files?" "Yeah, it's a start, but then they may call back when they get new files. You want them NEVER to call back. What could you do?" "Swear at them?" "No. I can see we'll have to demonstrate. Have you got a metal ballpoint?" "Yes" "See that wallsocket over there.В Take the refill out of the pen and poke in into the wallsocket." "But it's live!" "Would I really make you do it if it were live?" "Oh" >fiddle< >fiddle<В >BZZZZZZZEEEEERT!<В >THUD!< Of course I would. He was no good anyway. No killing instinct. BSMfH #2 So I'm interviewing for new Operators, and, as the Bastard System Manager from Hell, I have high standards. And as the Immediate Past Bastard Operator from Hell, I have even higher standards. I get the first applicant in. "Ok" I say "I'm just going to ask you some simple questions to guage your knowledge of Computing and Networking in relation to the Operations Field" "Sure" "Right. Question One ...»