Nursing is a truly noble profession, at least as long as the treatment is limited to humans. Computers, on the other hand, are better left to the IT department. This story by IT veteran A.L. explains how a nurse's attempt to apply her healing skills to her computer got everything turned upside down.
I've been working in the IT department of a very large hospital administration building for the past couple years. Lately, we have been expanding and hiring more personnel, so I've been busy configuring new computers and setting passwords.
Last week, I was settling down in the IT room for lunch when I received a call from the new nursing instructor on the eighth floor. She had started that week and, with her flowing blond hair framing big, baby-blue eyes, I can't say that it bothered me when she asked me to come help her with her computer.
"I'm really sorry to bother you, but, like, my CD won't go in my computer. I even had the dean of nursing come by and she totally couldn't get it to work either."
So I put down my sandwich and, giving it one last longing look, I headed toward her cube. I had set up her system earlier that week, and since everything was in working order at the time I was curious to know what could interfere with the CD-ROM drive.
Any remorseful thoughts I might have had about missing my lunch disappeared in the light of the nurse's bright, welcoming smile. However, a quick pop of her bubblegum shook me from my trance and I looked down to see her holding out the CD expectantly.
Examining the CD, it looked to be without any physical problems, so I moved to put it in the CD drive. That was when I noticed that the CD drive was at the bottom of the case. Furthermore, I noticed four little rubber feet staring me in the face from the top.
I took a half step back and asked, "Eh, miss? Could you tell me why your computer is upside down?"
"Oh yeah, well that's easy. So, I was sitting at my desk, and then I heard my computer getting tired."
I made sure to stand very still and calmly look into her eyes. "I see. Can you tell me how the computer got tired?"
"Yeah, so I was typing and I heard it getting tired, like breathing hard, ya know? It was making this totally weird whirring sound from the back. So I turned it over so maybe it could catch its breath."
I took the full step back.
"So, do you think it's, like, too tired to play my CD?"
I think that this story might just give another meaning to putting your computer in "sleep" mode...one can only imagine if she had thought her computer had a virus...
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