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A friend of mine used to work at McAfee in the late 80s / early 90s. There were gun stories to be had there.
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We had a guy who was doing something, I think putting his jacket on his chair or something, and a gun fell out onto the floor. Luckily it didn't go off.
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At a point I’m pretty sure it was unusual to work somewhere that didn’t have a few Winchesters lying around.
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rafikki posted:We had a guy who was doing something, I think putting his jacket on his chair or something, and a gun fell out onto the floor. Luckily it didn't go off. Any competently-made factory weapon won't discharge if dropped. Manufacturers test for that specifically. I don't know if my workplace has a no-guns policy, and I don't think I care at this point. Not like it'll stop me from carrying if so.
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Apr 30, 2019 17:56
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Every work day in America is "bring your gun to work" day. Nothing keeps that exchange server on its toes more than the knowledge the admin can make it meet its maker at any moment.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:11
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Exit Strategy posted:Any competently-made factory weapon won't discharge if dropped. Manufacturers test for that specifically. Yeah but Taurus doesn't care about the results.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:13
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Volguus posted:Every work day in America is "bring your gun to work" day. The exchange server is like a call center employee. Death has no power over them, for they seek it's sweet embrace at all times.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:19
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Volguus posted:Every work day in America is "bring your gun to work" day. Unless you're working at the convention center hosting the NRA.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:34
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Exit Strategy posted:I don't know if my workplace has a no-guns policy, and I don't think I care at this point. Not like it'll stop me from carrying if so. We explicitly do NOT have a no-gun policy. Basically as long as you're abiding by local/federal laws and not creating an issue, you're fine.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:34
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coming from not america this conversation is really disturbing, jfc
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The Iron Rose posted:coming from not america this conversation is really disturbing, jfc As someone in the US who isn't a gun fetishist it's still disturbing.
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Apr 30, 2019 19:01
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The Iron Rose posted:coming from not america this conversation is really disturbing, jfc I know a guy that bragged about shooting bottles out of the hands of homeless people using subsonic rounds in a .22 rifle.
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Apr 30, 2019 19:05
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Kyrosiris posted:As someone in the US who isn't a gun fetishist it's still disturbing. Are you using fetish in the older religious totem sense, or would this be a good time to rhetorically ask why non-gun people make it a sex thing as reliably as the creepiest gun people?
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Apr 30, 2019 19:08
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Are you using fetish in the older religious totem sense, or would this be a good time to rhetorically ask why non-gun people make it a sex thing as reliably as the creepiest gun people? the former, really. I'm not even a non-gun person I just find the fact that people feel the need to bring their firearms to work - or in public at all, frankly - viscerally uncomfortable.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Are you using fetish in the older religious totem sense, or would this be a good time to rhetorically ask why non-gun people make it a sex thing as reliably as the creepiest gun people? Jeez, you think the fact that there's so many public gun fetishists might be related to the supermajority of the country without guns joking about the gun fetishists?
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Are you using fetish in the older religious totem sense, or would this be a good time to rhetorically ask why non-gun people make it a sex thing as reliably as the creepiest gun people? A bit of both, really, and it's less offensive to neuroatypical people than "gun nut" while still getting the idea of "a person who is literally incapable of being physically separated from their murder device for some inexplicable reason" across.
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Apr 30, 2019 19:14
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Last summer I saw a guy walking across the parking lot in camo shorts, no shirt and an ar-15 style rifle in a shoulder sling.
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Exit Strategy posted:I don't know if my workplace has a no-guns policy, and I don't think I care at this point. Not like it'll stop me from carrying if so. Name + Post Combo
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Apr 30, 2019 19:30
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One of our problem employees was able to limp along without being fired until he forgot to keep his gun in his vehicle before coming in
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Apr 30, 2019 20:13
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Lmao if you do the pocket tap check to make sure you've got your phone keys and wallet. But then realize you need to grab your gun.
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Apr 30, 2019 20:20
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Testicles, spectacles, keys, wallet, watch and..... gat Just doesn't have the same ring
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It's the sign of the cross for Americans: Spectacles, testicles, wallet and GUN
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Shut up Meg posted:I'll be honest, I would not be surprised if one of you relates an IT story where your boss hands you a gun. When I worked for an engineering firm in Montana, one time my supervisor handed me a machete. Same office had several dudes who open carried. This was during the George W. administration and I can only imagine how much dumber it is there these days. Next job, supervisor was an AR hobbyist and brought his customs in to show off, and we did "team building" at the rifle range a few times, but that's just how you socialize in Montana. Next job, now in a conservative suburb outside of PDX, dumbfuck real actual criminal boss who thought he was the best at guns (think McAfee without the drugs or bank account), and he'd leave a loaded, unlocked pistol in his loving messenger bag in his office. I grabbed it while digging around for a USB stick he sent me to find. I was not pleased. Current job has recently upgraded on-site security to include personnel and patrols, and we have a very strict no weapons policy. poo poo's gotten even more tense since the Google shooting. And then the new security team decided they needed non-standard hardware for viewing camera footage, which turned into my team's problem, wrapping this back around to a ticket coming in. Oh god, speaking of, someone on the documentation team dropped a live, public-facing doc saying, "Hey, you wanna put the official image on any arbitrary hardware? CALL DRJ'S TEAM!" Let's just say it got pulled down with a NEVER RELEASE lock on it and someone in SF is gonna find out I don't need weapons to cause someone problems (I don't hurt people, this threat is empty, etc; I'm just going to glare at them and not say anything until they get uncomfortable and leave).
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$oldJob fired a client for coming in to the office and threatening an employee with a handgun because his(employee)'s dad owed money.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:find out I don't need weapons to cause someone problems (I don't hurt people, this threat is empty, etc; I'm just going to glare at them and not say anything until they get uncomfortable and leave). Firewall ACL deny deny all on their office's network ports? Set a dhcp reservation shoving them on the guest vlan? There are tons of ways you can hurt someone without raising a hand in anger (raising fingers repeatedly in anger, over a keyboard? That's entirely different!).
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The Fool posted:$oldJob fired a client for coming in to the office and threatening an employee with a handgun because his(employee)'s dad owed money. Was his excuse "Come on, everyone's done a little attempted armed robbery with a live firearm in their time?"
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Heners_UK posted:Was his excuse "Come on, everyone's done a little attempted armed robbery with a live firearm in their time?" All three of my stories are about the same person. He's done some other stuff that I wasn't a direct witness to: https://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/dealing-with-psychopaths-guy-christopher-mannino/ https://www.adn.com/crime-justice/article/chiropractor-linked-chena-ridge-bomb-blast-challenges-search-warrants/2013/11/12/ http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/fairbanks-man-gets-years-in-murder-for-hire-case/article_56726410-3357-11e6-a06b-0b92861f3c64.html
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Firewall ACL deny deny all on their office's network ports? Set a dhcp reservation shoving them on the guest vlan? There are tons of ways you can hurt someone without raising a hand in anger (raising fingers repeatedly in anger, over a keyboard? That's entirely different!). I have the keys to the endpoint management system, so I can do all sorts of fun and entertaining things to computers from orbit  Like install Google Extensions that can't be removed due to enterprise settings.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Are you using fetish in the older religious totem sense, or would this be a good time to rhetorically ask why non-gun people make it a sex thing as reliably as the creepiest gun people? Also seconding the  at all this "guns at work" as a non-yank.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I have the keys to the endpoint management system, so I can do all sorts of fun and entertaining things to computers from orbit If you're a cloud-based company and you don't use this to install cloud2butt on the company before you leave, well, I'm not sure what to tell you.
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I don't even like it when the cops turn up to their job with a gun.
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DelphiAegis posted:If you're a cloud-based company and you don't use this to install cloud2butt on the company before you leave, well, I'm not sure what to tell you. I don't just work for A cloud-based company, I work for  its own drat self. Installing cloud2butt on other employee computers as a prank is a longstanding tradition in our IT department.
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Ghostlight posted:I don't even like it when the cops turn up to their job with a gun. Same, but I’m fine with people who don’t beat their wives and threaten to kill dogs for leverage owning guns.
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If I am honest, there's some second gen Packard Bells that would probably have gotten a cap in their rear end if I were strapped. I'd have been able to claim self defence as they drew first blood with their razor-edged cases.
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I know a guy that got permission to expense handgun ammo to decommission old hard drive platters on the condition that his manager came with him. He’s a goon, but he never posts so who knows if he’ll even see this.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I know a guy that got permission to expense handgun ammo to decommission old hard drive platters on the condition that his manager came with him. You know you're in Montana when your IT lab is decorated with old HD platters and LCDs full of bullet holes.
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A lot of people in this thread might have their attitudes changed if they got to retire printers with tannerite.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:A lot of people in this thread might have their attitudes changed if they got to retire printers with tannerite. FIELD TRIP!
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22 Eargesplitten posted:A lot of people in this thread might have their attitudes changed if they got to retire printers with tannerite. That's dangerous as gently caress, just FYI. The only difference between a Xerox stuffed with tannerite and a car based IED is that theoretically someone could still use the car for something. That said 'reducing the risk of user data leakage via field expedient methods' is super fun. Lots of .308 caliber holes in old aluminum platter drives. Edit: The only proper way to decommission a printer is via Office Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:A lot of people in this thread might have their attitudes changed if they got to retire printers with tannerite. Yeah this sounds pretty dope tbh But outside of work man.
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