"They're eating in the computer lab. You need to TALK TO THEM."

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
08/05/2015 at 15:53 • Filed to: Particularly Religious Coworker

It’s time for another installment of Particularly Religious Coworker. Today, PRC did something that wasn’t religious, but was definitely capital-P Particular. Some students were eating in the computer lab. THIS SHALL NOT STAND.

(I’m the career services director at a tech school. Particularly Religious Coworker is our admin. She’s a very nice lady who really likes to share her love of the lord in inappropriate ways, and also gets overly worried about silly little rules from time to time. You can learn all about her from her !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .)

Today, I was helping the dean—who in addition to being in charge of the teachers, is old enough to be my dad and not computer savvy—with a thing on his computer. Particularly Religious Coworker came up to us, very upset, and told us breathlessly about how a couple of students are in the computer lab and they have food next to the computers when there are signs that say no food in the computer lab .

I jokingly asked PRC if she had given the students a nice stern talking-to. She very seriously responded that she had, and asked the dean to give these students an additional stern talking-to, because they need to know just how serious of an offense they had committed by eating in the computer lab.

PRC then returned to her perch up at the front desk, and the dean and I resumed working on his computer. A few minutes later, PRC returned and explained in even greater detail just how important it is that the dean talk to these students, who are grown adults, IMMEDIATELY.

So the dean and I went our separate ways, until I needed to ask him about something. He wasn’t in his office, so I took a wild guess and headed toward the computer lab. There he was, joking with the students about keeping Particularly Religious Coworker happy.

I’m sure now all the computers are so much safer.

DISCUSSION (15)

Rico > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 15:56

I love reading these stories, I would just spend a couple days out of the month pranking her.

64Mali > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 15:59

Hey eating/drinking near a computer can be especially dangerous. Do you know how hard it is to clean Jungle Juice out of a laptop? Answer you can’t the stuff eats the Mobo. Also loves the stories, makes my working experiences seem so much more pleasant.

Textured Soy Protein > 64Mali
08/05/2015 at 16:03

I have an open water bottle and a granola bar on my desk.

WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

Kinja'd!!!

64Mali > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 16:04

Considering I ate lunch at my desk... and I use a laptop. Yeah I am bad..

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 16:12

I really enjoy this series. Keep ‘em coming!

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 16:12

Eating/drinking next to a computer? NOT ON MY WATCH, ASSHOLES!

Followed by a swift ban from the lab for the year.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 16:14

While attending university I once put a whole Nutrigrain bar in my mouth while sitting in the computer lab. One of the sysadmin people walked by and gave me a weird disapproving look. I lost my shit and started laughing. Nutrigrain bars are very similar to Ritz crackers when you have too many in your mouth and start laughing.

Come at me PRC! Love the stories, though I can see how it would be infuriating to work with her.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 16:23

I was responsible for a couple of labs when I was in grad school. We had a no food / no drink policy which we couldn’t enforce since our labs were open and unmanned at night. One morning I was asked to fix a keyboard that “had something in it”. I found a keyboard that was filled to the brim with the contents of someone’s spilled spit cup. For you Yankees who don’t know, it’s fairly common for people who dip tobacco to use a can or cup to hold their spit. It looked like the keys were floating in a sea of spit.

I’m ok with PRC’s no food policy. Besides, we all know that keyboards are disgusting.

Kinja'd!!!

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
08/05/2015 at 17:05

* inserts pic of desk with empty food container and cups next to laptop * COME AT ME BRO

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 17:21

“ She’s a very nice lady who really likes to share her love of the lord in inappropriate ways,”

Makes me think you should start sharing your love for Sympathy for the Devil...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25bktx_…

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again.
08/05/2015 at 18:02

Kinja'd!!!

“Come on, my brethren. Someone’s losing a finger or two.”

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 18:31

You're such a rebel

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 18:45

Reading these stories it sounds like you’ve hired the former IT director at my previous employer, although I know where she went to work after leaving us. Control freak to the end, even threatening to have me written up and suspended when I put my cell phone on the company network for all of about 3 minutes. Nothing like a good double-standard coming from a sanctimonious, holier-than-thou hypocrite.

Strange policies - no access to task manager, but we could install our own software (so I installed Process Explorer). Thankfully just about all of those control-freak policies were discontinued when she left, and I could resume doing all of those dangerous things like adding a Bluetooth adapter and second monitor to my computer. Oh, the horror, me taking the system down from inside with a couple of productivity-enhancing items. If I got the mouse from her I would have been fine, but since I used my own I was in trouble. It’s the same damned software...

Having worked in corporate IT in the past I understand the need for some uniformity, but there are a few things in life that are absolutely harmless but go against the grain of those who want to micromanage every aspect of the environment. I derive a small bit of pleasure torturing these kind of people, although they generally have better connections than I and can get their will enforced, regardless of whether it is right, wrong or inconsequential...

1111111111111111111111 > Textured Soy Protein
08/05/2015 at 19:42

I have a PRC in the office too.I’m a sysadmin to his service desk, so it’s a bit easier. And honestly I encourage people to eat at the desk, and work.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Textured Soy Protein
08/06/2015 at 12:49

Kinja'd!!!

Don’t rat me out bro.