If you’ve never endured the wrath of the IT department – you haven’t lived.  Typically, the IT boys spend much of their day doing whatever it is IT boys do.  But on Friday – I accidentally unleashed all holy hell upon their department.  

Friday started off as my typical day of writing and whatnot.  I checked my Facebook account before I went to lunch … answered a few mindless e-mails … and went to grab some grub.  Unbeknownst to me, is that I had unwittingly downloaded the dreaded KoobFace virus that had been making the rounds.  Faster than you can say contamination, my computer was sending out random e-mails to random folks in the company.  Meanwhile, I’m next door wolfing down fish tacos at Houlihans. 

By the time I got back, I had literally wiped out four of my co-worker’s computers.  I was poised to obliterate many more if, God forbid, people opened any of the e-mails my computer was regenerating.  (At this point, I’m still unaware what’s going on.) 

Rarely, and I mean rarely, does PlattForm ever up the ante and actually go to DefCon 5 – but Friday was a day of reckoning.  Not only was the IT Department scrambling to stop the virus – they had no idea who had it and who didn’t. 

Joy. 

I’ve always told my co-workers I like to keep things interesting around here – but in THIS case – I went a little overboard.  On an up note, several of my co-workers got to go home early on Friday because – well, their computers had self-destructed.  I always gotta accentuate the positive. 

This week will be spent sucking up to the entire IT team.  Making amends.  Buying lunch.  Kissing babies.  And vowing never, ever, ever, ever, ever to download something from an unknown source – lest I sow the wrath of the five guys who keep my computer running effectively and efficiently!