One of my favorite stories from when I was working was when I was a support staff specialist. I got the position because I was good with computers and my facility was implementing a lot of computers and setting up networking and all that.
We had the network running okay but it was not great and it was not consistent. Consistent enough to put it out there so that we could put everybody's email boxes on a network drive. We called it the L drive because that was the letter of the drive and windows that we had mapped it to.
But not consistent enough so that when people would move from computer to computer they sometimes had difficulties because the L drive did not map correctly. The email program was looking for a specific location and specific mail file on the L drive and if the L drive mapped incorrectly it didn't find it and would throw an error.
One week in July we were having lots of network difficulties and all the people that moved from computer to computer because of their changing assignments throughout the day and week were very frustrated.
So, I and the other guy that did this sort of thing for our people. We're running around helping people with their computers all day long. We were mapping the L drive all day long. So I started humming Christmas tunes because everybody was so grumpy.
It's the middle of July and I'm humming Christmas tunes. And finally one of my friends who was always happy except for that day said, Why are you humming Christmas songs? It's the middle of the summer in July.
It's not time for Christmas songs. And I said sure it is. I said it feels like the holiday season. We're I said no L. No L means it's Christmas time. So since you don't have an L drive it's no L. Oh I took such razzing for that but it was so much fun to spend that week humming Christmas songs.
And after everybody knew it they would groan when they would hear me. Beautiful.
