What kind of IT nightmare are you?

You wake up late, you look over at your alarmclock and see that its no longer working. You...

Say, "Fuck it!" and roll over and go back to sleep. Your all ready running late anyways.
Jump out of bed. "Yikes! I over slept!" You imediatly call your boss to tell him that your running late but you WILL be there.
Take your alarm clock apart. There must be a lose wire in it somewere.
Start to cry. You've had that alarmclock since you were a kid. You remember all the morning it woke you up.
Shrug your shoulders. Thats what you get for using an alarmclock you picked up off the side of the road.
Turn to your significant other and start to complain. "Why didn't you wake me up!"

Your running late. Your getting dressed in a hurry when you discover a HUGE stain on your favorite shirt. You...

Start screaming, "Why did this have to happen!"
Set the shirt aside. You'll drop it off at the dry cleaners during your two hour long lunch break.
Throw the shirt into your trusty Maytag. Sure its 20 years old, but its never failed you before.
Mutter under your breath about how crappy pens are these days. Sure you forgot to put the cap back on, but it wasn't YOUR fault.
Throw the shirt away. It was part of a buy one get one free sale. You only got it because you thought it looked cool in the store. Fuscia just isn't your color.
Take your shirt down to the laundry room. You have that homemade stain lifting concoction around here somewere...

Finally your dressed. Whew, that was hard. You go downstairs to get a cup of coffee. You need the pick me up. You grab your favorite mug, and go to pour a cup when you realise that your coffee maker is broken. You...

Smack your forehead. Your forgot to turn the burner on for your perkalator.
Go upstairs and grab the screwdriver from next to the alarm clock, scattering the 'spare parts' in your haste.
Have a screaming hissy fit. You cannot tollerate your morning not going well
Well, it looks like your off to Starbucks. You could barely work that thing anyways.
Glare at your significant other drinking their cup of coffee. They must have broken the coffee maker to screw up your day.
Throw the coffee maker in the trash. No big loss, it was a free gift with purchase.

You get into your car. Finally, your heading off to the office. You look down and realise that your car is running on fumes. You need gas so you...

Pull into the nearest gas station, lay your head down on the steering wheel and start to cry. This day is just NOT going well.
Keep going. You'll just offer to drive during your lunch run to Starbucks and ask for gas money. Why pay for gas if you don't have to?
Stare at the gas pump blankly. How did those things work again..
Sweat while you search for a gas station that sells disel.
Pull into the full service area. You don't have time to pump it yourself. What do you mean you have to turn the engine off!?!
Keep on going. Your gas gadge hasn't worked quite right since you tuned up the car yourself.

Finally you reach the office! What a morning you've had, but you made it. A bit late, but better late than never. You...

Walk in pretending to be talking with a customer on your cell phone. Your not late, you've been 'working' all this time.
Sneak in the back way. Hopefully your boss hasn't been by to see you yet. Now, how do I turn this computer on again?
Run in franticaly, head straight to your boss' office, throw yourself into a chair and start to sob. "I'm so sorry for being late! It will NEVER happen again!"
Rewire the timeclock to that it shows that you clocked in on time.
Stroll in casualy. You've known your boss for 20+ years, he'll never sack you for being late, again.
Walk in carying your boss' favorite Starbucks beverage. It was no big deal, you found a Starbucks card that someone had lost that still had money on it.

Its time to get to work. You have an inbox that you need to tackle, oh were to begin. You...

Stare at your monitor. Now, what was your password to get onto the network again?
Go to set up your laptop only to remeber that the IT department has it. That crappy thing is always breaking!
Tear yourself away from reminising with your boss about the good old days.
Dive in! All the time you wasted being late could have been used to get things done. You've got a schedule to try to get back onto.
Check your email, and surf the web a bit. Hey, that looks cool...
Turn your computer on and sift through all the error messages. You've been meaning to tackle those....

You've been working for a while, and you've finally gotten into your grove when your connection to the network dies. You....

You call up your IT department, and leave several messages.You NEED them to fix your connection ASAP!
Network? Whats a network?
You head on down to the server room, this should be an easy fix.
Track down the IT guy, and beg him to come look at your machine. With tears gleaming in your eyes, how could he refuse.
Hang out in the IT area, reminising with the interns about how you handled things when You ran the IT department.k

Whoops! I hope that this cool new free game I downloaded didn't have a virus on it.

Well, that network issue isn't going to be fixed for a while. You decide to take a long lunch. When you get back to your desk two hours later you find...

What, take lunch when theres work to be done!?! Heck no! You haven't left your desk, just ask the IT guy.
Hrm... Were IS my desk again?
The IT guy sitting impatiently in your chair. What, I had to leave my laptop here!?!
The IT manager looking around for you. For some reason there is a bigger problem with the network. I wonder why he wants to talk to me...
Maybe that game DID have a virus on it. It may be best to call in sick for the rest of the day.

You haven't left for lunch yet. Your still giving pointers to the IT deparment on how to handle this network issue.

Finally, the network issue is resolved! You...

Decide to come back to work after all. Maybe they wont figure out that you were the one who unleashed the virus.
Give the IT guy a big hug! Thank you for fixing my computer, now go away, I have work to do.
Endure a lecture from the IT manager. Like you were the one who caused any problems! Most likely you were the one who fixed things!
Pat the IT guys on the back. Good job, come find me next time you run into a problem.
Umm, hello! My laptop STILL isn't working right!

So, how do I log into the network again?

Your able to finally get some work done. You spend the rest of the day working on an urgent report. You manage to finish it with out incident, but when you go to print, the printer jams. You...
Get out your old dot matrix printer. Good thing you've kept it around.
Start hunting around for your screw driver. Man, the place would fall apart with out you.
Pick up the phone and dial IT's extention, your bottom lip quivering.
Stare blankely at the printer. PC Load Letter... Wait, I know that one...
Are too busy playing your new, free, virus ridden game to notice the paper jam.

Pester the IT guy. Oh, and BTW, when IS my laptop going to be fixed!

Its the end of the day. You FINALLY get your report finished, printed, and on your boss' desk. Its time to get the hell out of here before something else happens. Except you get out to your car and find that one of your tires has gone flat. You...
Run screaming, and throw yourself into oncomming traffic. Today has been so crappy, life just isn't worth living anymore.
Call a tow truck, you don't know how to change a tire.
Its not surprising. Your tires are about as old as your car.
Whip out your cellphone and call a cab. After the day you've had, you need to go do some serious drinking.
Stare in the trunk. Were IS that spare tire anyways.

Man, I guess that I should have replaced the econo spare with a real tire after the last flat.

Test created by Sabrina Ehlert (sehlert) (c) 2002