Important Government Assignments (from Pete)
Our helpdesk services about thirty different remote offices, most of which are sales branches that are staffed by as little as a single sales rep. Not too long ago, one of these one-man-shops called up with an urgent problem that resulted in him overnighting his laptop computer to us.

We may have been able to fix it remotely, but based on the call, it sounded like the machine could use a re-imaging. The sales rep requested that we overnight it back, as he was in a bit of a rush and had some important government assignments pending.

When I started it up, I expected to find a dozen or so malware toolbars and a handful of Trojans and viruses. But what I didn’t expect was a massive pornography collection. Not just the random temporary image here and there, but a solid sixty gigabytes of images, videos, and who-knows-what... all on a company-owned computer.

Far be it for me to be the porn police, I followed the “retain user data” policy on laptop re-imaging.

But instead of putting his porn collection where it was before, I created a folder in the middle of the desktop named “Important Government Assignments” and moved all the porn into there.

The next day I got a message that, in the future, that office would be handling its own computer problems.