Time-Machine Tuesday: Not so much

This supply manager at a big medical center back in the aughts has a degree in MIS — and a reputation for requesting the moon, reports a pilot fish on the scene.

“Most of his requests violate corporate policies, HIPAA regulations or common sense,” fish says.

The latest trouble ticket from this user is a complaint that his computer is sluggish, freezing and generally flaky. Fish investigates, and it turns out the reason for the PC’s problems isn’t hard to identify: The user hasn’t rebooted in several days and system resources are dangerously low.

Which is no big surprise, since on the user’s desktop fish counts 32 instances of Excel, 26 Internet Explorer windows and more than a dozen other resource-hogging applications.

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