Comment by throwanem

This was a better way to find out about NET SEND than attempting to use it for a somewhat vulgar in-joke to a work buddy one desk over, and instead popping a message on every single one of the about 10,000 PCs installed throughout the bank where you work.

Despite being phone support (think "cattle") I didn't get fired or indeed anything at all past a half-shocked, half-laughing "never ever do that again" sort of chat, and even that not from any of the floor mommies or daddies who were careful not to have to notice any of this, but just my line manager who might have been all of five years older than I was then. I assume this was slightly because I was extremely good at the job, and mainly for the sake of whoever in IT's job it was to make sure nobody could officially do what I, somehow, in the end turned out only unofficially to have done.