[geeks] worst part of the job?

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:56:30PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> We got realistic when we built NCGR's new office.  At the time, the 
> protests against the genetics industry were getting ugly, and we had 
> already had some interesting incidents. So, we added color/lowlight 
> cameras in the right places, as well as a camera behind the 
> receptionist's desk.  (If somebody came in and started giving her 
> trouble, she could hit the button for either the cops, or the SA's.  The 
> SA suite had a monitor and alarm in it.  All four of us together were 
> over 1000 lbs. :-). ) (Plus, John was an ex-marine, and kept his K-bar 
> over his desk.)

We had an interesting incident when I worked at Texas.Net. 
Captured in full detail:

er.  well.  look in austin.internet around Feb/Mar '98; basically a 
customer named Chris Edmonson came to our offices, more than a little
annoyed that we'd turned off his dialup account for abuse.  We ended up
almost having to call the cops to get him to leave.... then he *complained*
about this on Usenet...

Eventually, he settled his differences with the company though.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX