As the administrator of all the users in our domain, I am the one that makes sure everyone is up to date with patches/antivirus/updates etc. When a computer falls behind it’s usually due to one thing: huge service pack (SP3 for XP) or we changed over from one suite of applications to another and we haven’t had time to change out all the machines.

So occasionally I have to ask someone for their password. Usually they have a smart-ass response of “what, don’t you know it already?”. I can change their password to whatever I want, but I don’t have a list of current usernames and passwords for obvious reasons.

Guy is complaining that whenever he opens a PDF it crashes his outlook. He’s running on an older system with old AV, no SP3, old office suite and old adobe products. Yippie. So I tell him he’s going to be getting a new system, but I need his windows password so I can configure everything correctly for his user.

Jason: send me your windows password so i can configure a new system for you
C***o: windows password?

Then C***o walks over to my desk and asks if I mean his sales login and password:
C***o: You mean my sales password?
Jason: No, the one you login to your system with
C***o: I don’t have one
Jason: So you just hit enter to get onto your computer? I’m pretty sure that’s not possible, but ok…

C***o stares at me blankly for a few seconds. Then:
C***o: Ooooh, that one. You want to write it down or should I email it to you?
Jason: I’m eating, so you’d better email it to me

I think I’ll wait until next week to finish that up.