May 1, 2025 • 5 mins
It seems like Allyson might've jumped to conclusions about her work computer...or did she?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A couple of Fox to News headlines this morning. Will
(00:02):
the Big One? Of course, the Pistons back on the
court tonight, Big One, Little Caesars Arena. This is a
must win game six.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We got to pull it together.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It feels like everybody's going to this game.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Really yeah, are you gonna go?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I've got got the Junior Achievement Awards? Junior, I mean
I on your It should be in my calendar.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I didn't check it for a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Talk about your regrets.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
There it is, there, it is. That's number one on
your list. Oh, when you're going to Houston soon?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Next week? Next week, I'm going to Houston.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh wow, anything you guys, anything back from Houston, anything
from Texas I can bring you?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Can you bring us?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Is it Terry Black's barbecue or something like that? Maybe
bring us some barbecue back that can you buy?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Can you buy yourself fair cowboy boots and wear them.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Or one of those like big belt, Like I have
to tuck my shirt and I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Ford For is extending its employee pricing through July fourth,
and just revealed its fully redesigned expedition. The SUV will
be built in Kentucky at the truck plant there with
a starting price of sixty two thousand dollars with new
tech upgrades.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I think that was like a It was on TV, right.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I think there was some guy with headset getting all
Steve Jobsey about like the unveiling.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, oh yeah, well you been able to see that
on your computer?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I turned around, there's the TV right.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, I meant looking it up on your own.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
No, no, no, is your computer working now?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
My computer is working?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Thankful?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh my computer? So I flick.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, I didn't catch the segue first.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I tried.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
So I am a little if, if it's just even possible,
I'm a little more cranky than normal. Yeah, like I'm
like snapping a worn over I mean, I just I'm
not myself.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
When you don't feel good. I mean, it's easy to
do and it's really not.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
So I'm even a little more like cranky and like
just dismissive and like screw it. So do you guys
remember was it Monday or Tuesday?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There were a bunch of emails in our work email
about an outage.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, yeah, well I didn't know that an outage happened
because I didn't log onto my email that day, okay,
But what I did do was I was streaming Law
and Order SVU right on my work laptop or laptop
only because I didn't want to get out of bed.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I didn't know you had to work laptop.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's a Lenova, Lenovo something like that. Yeah, but it's cool, Like,
it's fine.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
We all had to get them when we switched systems
and we could just ask iHeart and they sent us
one and that's very nice. So and I do have
my own computer at home. But like I said, walking
over to the thing where it was seemed like a
lot of work.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I was just laying there anyway, and I was like,
you know, let's watch something.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
So in the middle of watching it, everything shuts down, right,
so the show goes off. My whatever was up work day, yeah,
went down because I had just logged some hours. So
I call Warren and I say, I think something's wrong
with our internet.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's the first thing you do.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And then I go to my app, my Exfinity app,
and I'm like, did I not pay a bill? And
I was current. He unplugged the mode and plugged it
back in, and I was like, I can't.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Get back online, even like your hotspot wasn't working. And
I turned out my hotspot on my phone, which powered
my built my entire building for like years before I
actually got internet, and it wouldn't accept my hotspot, and
I was like out, And so we did a scan
and these weird messages came up, like IP addresses being blocked.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
And I'm like, God, did I get hacked? If I
had any money in the bank, i'd be concerned right now.
So the next day, now I still don't know anything
about what's going on at work. So the next day,
Warren comes home from work and I said, will you
run my computer up to right at the end of
our block as a computer fix it store?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I said, will you take it up to Sunset Computers
and have him fix it? Might be a hundred bucks.
He's like, okay, cool, he's up there in five minutes.
He calls me in like ten minutes and he said,
your computer has not broken. Your administrator shut you down. Oh,
And I went my administrator shut me down and he
said that's what the guy said.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And he said, so I'm coming back home.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So he brings a He brings a computer back home
while he's en route. I call HR for you, yeah,
which is our HR department, and I get someone on
the phone because.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
That seems like the most stark Okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Sorry, well, I mean but instead of like inquiring, I
just I just say this. She gets on the phone.
Her name's Alison, and I said I'm Alison. I said,
apparently my administrator has shut me down on my work laptop,
so I just need an address so I can send
it back to you.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
She does not even entertain it.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
She goes, oh, I got an email about that, and
I'll send it to you so you can get back
up online.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Meanwhile, there was a whole outage where none of our
work computers were working.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
But Allison thought her streaming on or I thought it
was order rescue. They shut me down.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
So and then when my computer's back up and running,
then I see it happened to everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But I didn't even ask.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I just said I need an address so I can
send it back to you.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's a good thing you didn't jump to conclusions.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No, I never do that.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't do that.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Most people might try to call their administrator and say
why did you shut me down?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
She's like, you shut me down now. Oh, here's the
computer back.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, just take it.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Right, and do you wish me well or there? Well,
you don't even get that, I don't get the issue.
Well no, okay, fine,
A couple of Fox to News headlines this morning. Will
(00:02):
the Big One? Of course, the Pistons back on the
court tonight, Big One, Little Caesars Arena. This is a
must win game six.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We got to pull it together.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It feels like everybody's going to this game.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Really yeah, are you gonna go?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I've got got the Junior Achievement Awards? Junior, I mean
I on your It should be in my calendar.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I didn't check it for a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Talk about your regrets.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
There it is, there, it is. That's number one on
your list. Oh, when you're going to Houston soon?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Next week? Next week, I'm going to Houston.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh wow, anything you guys, anything back from Houston, anything
from Texas I can bring you?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Can you bring us?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Is it Terry Black's barbecue or something like that? Maybe
bring us some barbecue back that can you buy?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Can you buy yourself fair cowboy boots and wear them.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Or one of those like big belt, Like I have
to tuck my shirt and I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Ford For is extending its employee pricing through July fourth,
and just revealed its fully redesigned expedition. The SUV will
be built in Kentucky at the truck plant there with
a starting price of sixty two thousand dollars with new
tech upgrades.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I think that was like a It was on TV, right.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I think there was some guy with headset getting all
Steve Jobsey about like the unveiling.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, oh yeah, well you been able to see that
on your computer?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I turned around, there's the TV right.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, I meant looking it up on your own.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
No, no, no, is your computer working now?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
My computer is working?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Thankful?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh my computer? So I flick.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, I didn't catch the segue first.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I tried.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
So I am a little if, if it's just even possible,
I'm a little more cranky than normal. Yeah, like I'm
like snapping a worn over I mean, I just I'm
not myself.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
When you don't feel good. I mean, it's easy to
do and it's really not.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
So I'm even a little more like cranky and like
just dismissive and like screw it. So do you guys
remember was it Monday or Tuesday?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There were a bunch of emails in our work email
about an outage.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, yeah, well I didn't know that an outage happened
because I didn't log onto my email that day, okay,
But what I did do was I was streaming Law
and Order SVU right on my work laptop or laptop
only because I didn't want to get out of bed.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I didn't know you had to work laptop.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's a Lenova, Lenovo something like that. Yeah, but it's cool, Like,
it's fine.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
We all had to get them when we switched systems
and we could just ask iHeart and they sent us
one and that's very nice. So and I do have
my own computer at home. But like I said, walking
over to the thing where it was seemed like a
lot of work.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I was just laying there anyway, and I was like,
you know, let's watch something.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
So in the middle of watching it, everything shuts down, right,
so the show goes off. My whatever was up work day, yeah,
went down because I had just logged some hours. So
I call Warren and I say, I think something's wrong
with our internet.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's the first thing you do.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And then I go to my app, my Exfinity app,
and I'm like, did I not pay a bill? And
I was current. He unplugged the mode and plugged it
back in, and I was like, I can't.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Get back online, even like your hotspot wasn't working. And
I turned out my hotspot on my phone, which powered
my built my entire building for like years before I
actually got internet, and it wouldn't accept my hotspot, and
I was like out, And so we did a scan
and these weird messages came up, like IP addresses being blocked.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
And I'm like, God, did I get hacked? If I
had any money in the bank, i'd be concerned right now.
So the next day, now I still don't know anything
about what's going on at work. So the next day,
Warren comes home from work and I said, will you
run my computer up to right at the end of
our block as a computer fix it store?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I said, will you take it up to Sunset Computers
and have him fix it? Might be a hundred bucks.
He's like, okay, cool, he's up there in five minutes.
He calls me in like ten minutes and he said,
your computer has not broken. Your administrator shut you down. Oh,
And I went my administrator shut me down and he
said that's what the guy said.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And he said, so I'm coming back home.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So he brings a He brings a computer back home
while he's en route. I call HR for you, yeah,
which is our HR department, and I get someone on
the phone because.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
That seems like the most stark Okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Sorry, well, I mean but instead of like inquiring, I
just I just say this. She gets on the phone.
Her name's Alison, and I said I'm Alison. I said,
apparently my administrator has shut me down on my work laptop,
so I just need an address so I can send
it back to you.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
She does not even entertain it.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
She goes, oh, I got an email about that, and
I'll send it to you so you can get back
up online.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Meanwhile, there was a whole outage where none of our
work computers were working.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
But Allison thought her streaming on or I thought it
was order rescue. They shut me down.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
So and then when my computer's back up and running,
then I see it happened to everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But I didn't even ask.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I just said I need an address so I can
send it back to you.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's a good thing you didn't jump to conclusions.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No, I never do that.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't do that.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Most people might try to call their administrator and say
why did you shut me down?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
She's like, you shut me down now. Oh, here's the
computer back.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, just take it.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Right, and do you wish me well or there? Well,
you don't even get that, I don't get the issue.
Well no, okay, fine,
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