So I’m about 3 weeks in to the new job and starting to build a rapport with our development staff.  It really is a pretty decent place to work, and they’re all pretty pleasant which is fairly unusual for coder types.

Yesterday afternoon about 4 one of my new co-workers gets up to leave, but stops in another developer’s cubicle on the way out and makes some comment about having the worst desktop he’s ever seen.  This piques my interest, so I walk over and butt in.  The desktop in question is covered with icons – there’s maybe enough room for two more down in the very bottom right, but… it’s a mess.

In a joking way, I say “I bet you won’t hit two keys for me.”

“What are those?”

“Control-A.  Enter.”

About 40 minutes later he was finished closing everything.

What made it extra fun was:  Opening that many applications at once makes them start to crash pretty quickly.  The machine had visual studio on it.  Visual studio tries to launch a debugger when something crashes.  So, on top of trying to open dozens of documents and applications, the machine was trying to launch a development environment every time one of them went foom, which was pretty often.

Apparently he’s never doing anything I tell him to do ever again.  Oops.  🙂