At my previous job, we were porting a UNIX system to Windows NT using Microsoft VC++. A colleague of mine, that was in the process of porting his portion of the code, came to me, looking really upset.Colleague: "Hey! I hate these Microsoft guys! What a rotten compiler! It only accepts 16,384 local variables in a function!"
Customer: "I had an important document that was password protected, and I can't get in it. I don't know the password."Tech Support: "Ok, we do have a program the get passwords from Word documents. Can you email me the document?"Customer: "No, it is very sensitive. That's why it was password protected. I won't even keep the file on the server. I keep it secure on a floppy."Tech Support: "It would be much safer if you kept it on the server. Floppies are easily corrupted. At least on the server it would be backed up each night."Customer: "That is exactly what I don't want to happen. For legal reasons, I don't want any copies of this file. I want you to come down here and get the password for me."Tech Support: "I'm not in the same office as you are, so I'll need to send someone there to your desk to help you out."Customer: "Have them call ahead first so I can get security here when they are work with the file."Tech Support: "Security? Sir, We sign a non-disclosure agreement, so that won't be necessary."Customer: "Yes, it will be necessary! This is a very important and sensitive document, and we don't want anyone touching it without some security."Tech Support: "Ok, that's fine. I'll let them know to bring the password software so they can get the password you forgot."Customer: "I didn't forget it!"Tech Support: "Excuse me?"Customer: "I didn't have to remember it."Tech Support: "What do you mean?"Customer: "The password was written on a yellow post-it note attached to the disk and must had fallen off. It has be somewhere on my desk, but there are so many papers here I can't find it!"I had to mute the phone so they wouldn't hear me laughing.
