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double trouble

Double the IT staff. Double the fun!
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Not Friends..

Just because I.T. helps you, does not mean we are friends.
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User Friendly..

We are not user Friendly.
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Dude..

Dude, we are not user friendly.
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send out the clones

You can clone me
But you can't drone me.
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Break..

I.T. is on break,please put in a help desk ticket.
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Service Pack 2

So they're service pack too?
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Burn me a Copy

I said I got burned by the coffee! Not burn a copy of me!
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Hmmm...

Does this mean overtime starts at 20 hours?
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Well...

I told you we should have shutdown that worm hole, especially since we stopped maintaining it.
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Read the EULA...

It clearly states that copies may be made only for personal use.
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OK, you've got a backup...

...but it's the restore that really matters.
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We have met...

We have met on FaceBook, or was it MySpace? No, it was Twitter....hmmm...let me think...
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How many times do I have to tell you?

IT doesn't work on copy machines.
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It's a great plan...

...I'm beside myself with joy.
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The way I see it...

...you can't spell "multiplicity" without "IT."
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Geek Speak

Perhaps you didn't understand what we meant by dual processors.
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Upgrade

It was time for an upgraded version
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less staff, same headcount

How did you think we were getting everything done after the layoffs?
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360 degrees

Think of us as the 360 degree mirror from 'What Not to Wear'
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cartoon caption submission

Dr. Strangelove told the Ballmer that if we seclude the IT departments in caves then when this is all over Windows will again be the dominate force.
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cartoon caption contest

yep. i'd say we're pretty redundant.
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Cartoon

Okay...who's the wiseguy who switched the martini shaker with the cloning test tubes?
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Backups

Our backup system's gone wacky, now we're duplicated. But which one is authentic?
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Copy and Paste?

Looks like Maureen got copy and paste happy again.
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cartoon caption

I think that when management said they wanted back up services installed, they didn't mean it to be taken quite that literally.
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cartoon caption

Considering how we are treated like slave labor here, this certainly brings new meaning to the concept of backup servers.
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Back me up or I'll back you

Back me up or I'll back you into the corner.
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As you can see, plaid is the in thing to wear.
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Coffee

Even IT People need coffee!
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Cartoon Caption

"Thinkgeek was GOING to charge me extra for shipping but I got free shipping when I told them stephen hawkings favourite colour was blue, when we ALL know it's actually lapis."

"If apple thinks I'm going to go out and buy a new macbook pro simply because they re-labeled my unibody macbook, they're absolutely right."

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Cartoon Caption

And why wouldn't we use the panic room if Starbucks goes bankrupt?
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Spitting Image

Let me get this straight, you want us to help our doppelgangers set up a new parallel universe branch?
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Didn't you get the right

Didn't you get the right memo from IT or do you work for AT?
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Cartoon Caption Contest

Quick Guys..decide fast...we are five blokes and only two panic rooms..who wants to be Out?
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You can't get good help these days.

No way, man! The last time I bought one of your clones, he ate all the lunches in the fridge and threw up in the lobby fish tank.
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Cartoon Caption

Let's check out the panic room on the way to the panic room.
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outsourced

did you know, under our bailout contract, our free coffee will now be outsourced to starbucks?!
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full backup

I know I'm always preaching redundancy and full backups but this is really weirding me out . . .
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Clone Wars

Bob, stop cloning us! Even though they're our clones, you can't get two for the price of one.
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How do you like your JAVA, MAC?

I prefer Karmic Koala JAVA. What about you Hewlett? Ubuntu JeOS for me. I call it JAVA Juice for short. Good stuff.
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Wadda ya mean he looks like

Wadda ya mean he looks like the best one for the job?
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Caption

So I guess our support ratio is 60% PCs and 40% Macs.
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end

If this is the Apocalypse and WE'RE here to repopulate Mankind. Where are the women?
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With all this coffee we'll need both of these panic rooms in about 10 minutes.
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the it devlopers now are in terror that wether there place will be secured or not and trying to plan for getting the surity of getting there first salary.
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Disaster Recovery

Look Bob, tell management that somehow, I don't think cloning us qualifies as an IT disaster recovery plan
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Oh wow, so having your IT

Oh wow, so having your IT guy who actually does the work fill out two TPS reports instead of just the one like I make my guy do will actually improve productivity and morale!?
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return of the body snatchers

So Phil, still suffering from insomia I see....
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DR strategy

This is not what we meant with a cloning DR strategy
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