Things not to do at work

Oh, my coworkers just come up with new fun things to do every single day. Today's installment revolves around computer issues.

Our boss, a lovely physician who is an expert in her field, has a love/hate relationship with her computer. As usual, as soon as our support person leaves for the other side of campus, she has an emergency.

Today's emergency: typing caused the lock screen to come up in the middle of entering the password. I watched as it happened, and noticed something. A large crumb. We repeated the error, so I told our lovely doc, to hold off the attempts to log in until I came back. I brought a can of air and our Saniwipes. To no one's surprise, enough crumbs to feed a small family came flying out of the keyboard.

Moral of the story: don't eat lunch over your desk. Those crumbs are out to get you (especially if they pile up under the keys on your keyboard). A few sprays of the air and cleaning...voila! No more weirdness.

The other problem: some things just shouldn't be used as mouse pads. Here's an explanation from one of the staff: Someone has decided to use Covaderm (yes the dressing) as a mouse pads on a few of the computers causing an abundance of adhesive madness when trying to maneuver the mouse. 

Remember, friends don't let friends use adhesive dressings on computers. Stick to the duct tape.

More later...