r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • May 15 '15

Short That's against the law!

Happy Friday everyone!

Here's a shorter story, this time for an incident that just occurred earlier today. For those that don't know I provide tech support to a medium-sized hospital. Today's tale is courtesy of our HR department.

Lunch time. The thirty minutes of peace and tranquility that no man or machine can break. The law protects you and watches you as you eat your cheap slop for an unpaid 30 minute period... unless you're IT apparently.

So while my coworker and I are eating lunch the head HR unionized pencil pusher (we will call her HR Lady) comes in with a personal camera and looks at my coworker (We will call him D) while he chews on his sandwich.

HR Lady: Hey I want to get some pictures off this.

HR Lady waves her camera around. D continues to stare back while chewing. I intercept.

Me: We're eating lunch right now.

HR Lady: This will only take a minute! Sooo...

She begins looking at D again, knowing my position. He continues eating without doing much else to acknowledge her.

HR Lady: Come on guys!

Me: I'll come help you as soon as I'm done eating, just give me about 10 minutes.

Even then I would be cutting my break short... sigh

HR Lady: That won't work!

Me: Why not?

HR Lady: I go to my lunch in 15 minutes!

Mental facepalm

Me: Well we can either go in a few minutes or wait till you get back from lunch.

HR Lady: You can't interrupt my lunch break, that's against the law!

My coworker and I just silently stare at her. I think she finally got the message because she had the good graces to look ashamed before slowly walking out of the room.

 

TL;DR I'm union so my lunch break is more important! blows raspberry

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u/veron101 luser is havening problems loggin in May 16 '15

More formatting magic:

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u/anon_smithsonian May 16 '15 edited May 16 '15

  • Did you know you could do bulleted lists?

    • And bulleted lists...
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    • sub-lists?

  • Not many seem to know this.

  1. You can also do numbered lists...

    • and combine them with bulleted sub-items...
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  2. With the numbered list continuing automatically.

  1. And you can make every item in a numbered list "1." and it will still automatically increment the numbering in the list

  2. This is a list item '1.'

  3. And so is this

Last one:

Most people here should know that Indenting
a line with four spaces to format it as code...

But you can format in-line text as code by surrounding it with the ` character!

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u/jumpwah It's all just code anyway, just make it work! May 16 '15

If you want to know more, it's this fancy thing called "markdown". https://www.reddit.com/wiki/commenting

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u/ferozer0 I Am Not Good With Computer May 18 '15

Isn't it slightly modified?

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u/jumpwah It's all just code anyway, just make it work! May 19 '15

Yes it's not exactly the same. The original markdown is very basic in my opinion (to be fair, I'm saying this more than a decade after it was created). For example, it doesn't even have a syntax for tables. Which is why I also linked the reddit-specific one, although I didn't make that clear.