It was 3:47 PM on a Tuesday, and the universe had decided that Leo Manfred, Senior Systems Analyst at Meridian Global Logistics, was its chosen punching bag. The evidence: a server migration that had gone smoothly for six months had just cratered on a printer driver.
Brenda from Accounting walked by. “Oh good, the printers are working. Hey, my mouse is double-clicking when I single-click. Can you fix that?” add printer driver wizard
Leo stared at the list. It was a novel. LPT1: (nonexistent), COM1: (a modem from 1999), FILE: (for printing to nowhere), and 47 different TCP/IP ports labeled with IP addresses he didn’t recognize. Some of them were from a network that had been decommissioned during the Obama administration. It was 3:47 PM on a Tuesday, and
At 4:02 PM, the bar hit 100%.