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Best meeting ever...

AngryJason

Shared on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 15:32

We've got this application in a development environment that writes files to an external file system.  Seems that in this development environment, the file share is no longer available, and the application development team had no idea.  So, the conversation went a little something like this:

Me - The share is gone, our wintel engineer confirmed that it doesn't exist

Project Manager (PM) -  what do you mean?  Where is it? <--This opens the door for me, and now I'm trying to keep a deadpan delivery...

Me - That's what I'm trying to tell you kid.  It ain't there, it's been totally blown away.

PM - (Puzzled look) - How?

Me - Destroyed, by the Empire

PM - (Puzzled look) - Ok, how do we get it back?

 

Probably not as funny in print, but I assure you, I was more than pleased with that interchange.

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IAmTheLiquor's picture
Submitted by IAmTheLiquor on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 16:54
LOL.
JuggaloJedi's picture
Submitted by JuggaloJedi on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 16:59
nice. so did the PM ever catch on?
TANK's picture
Submitted by TANK on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 17:48
I used to goof on people like that for my own entertainment. I had some people convinced that the color of their network cable determined their access speed to the network. That the color changing ring on the outside of cisco wireless access points measured the mood in the office and in the olden days had a guy looking for his 'token' out of the token ring network cabling. Told him it fell out and he had to find it before it would work again. I could go on and on but those are my favs.
buckeye75's picture
Submitted by buckeye75 on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 03:05
I do that with Monty Python quotes. Very few ever catch on. But I don't see how you can drop a Star Wars quote without people instantly knowing it
AngryJason's picture
Submitted by AngryJason on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 06:41
The PM was more insulted that I called him 'kid' than anything else. Another guy in the room shot me a knowing glance after I said destroyed by the empire. I typically do say "I have a bad feeling about this" whenever I can, but this time, it was set up to go into something else. I'm going to have to use the color of the network cable gag. I think I have some real live fish who would fall for that easily.
deSoldier2001's picture
Submitted by deSoldier2001 on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 09:46
Nice job of referencing on the fly. Bringin movies to real life, nothing like it.

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