Can-do attitude

[cjsmith]

Got a new board at work. Need to bring up a bunch of software on it. Until that's done, the cables run everywhere: two from my computer (under the desk) to the board, and three from the board to the back of the cube where net and power are. They're just long enough. And some of those cables are too big to go through the handy little hole at the back of the desk, so they wrap around the front.

The arm of my chair kept snagging these cables and threatening to pull the (expensive) board off the desk.

Naturally, I took my chair apart. It now has only one arm.

This is the sort of thing interviewers just love to hear about, isn't it? ...don't answer that.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Geek!!!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Guess so. :-)

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

Naturally, I took my chair apart.

Naturally.

:)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't anybody do the same? ;-)

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

I would!

[jcgbigler.livejournal.com]

Last year one of my students took the back off of his chair during class, to see what I'd say. I just said, "You're going to put that back before the bell rings, right?" (He did.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I'll put the arm back when I leave this job, too. Fair's fair.

[kennita.livejournal.com]

I hope that the cable situation will have improved long before then. There's probably a geektiness quotient that could predict how long after the cables are gone it will be before you bother to put the chair arm back on ...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Good point! I didn't promise to replace the arm when the board got shipped... only at the last possible moment! :-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

mostly armless :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

AUGH! :)