I thought I’d let you in on two sites that have provided me with hours of fun while at work in between moments of excitement.

These are both kind of off the beaten path, they consist mainly of ‘this is a no shitter’ kind of humorous stories, and have very extensive archives for hours of workplace browsing.

And they’re not quite as blatantly bad to read at work as webcomics.

First is probably the more widely-known one. At the UK techie site The Register is the man, the legend, the Bastard Operator From Hell.

The BOFH, as he is known, is an IT professional that has raised tormenting users, his boss, and the computer support helpdesk people to an artform.

I started reading him a long time ago, and he never disappoints me. There are two eras of BOFH, the pre-Register days of Unix Admin destruction and college user access control, and the post-Register work that continues the stories after leaving college and entering the office workplace. LOTS of archives.

If you scroll to the bottom of the BOFH page you’ll find links to previous years’ archives 2000 – 2007, and then there is the website that archives all the work previous to that… I’m talking a LOT of reading here. This will blow a week or two of browsing.

You can thank me for your loss of productivity later.

My next recommendation is The Acts of Gord.

These are simply short stories, in some cases very short, which are the expoits of a video store owner from the heyday of Genesis and Nintendo 64, before Blockbuster or Hollywood Video or EB Games or other large chain rental places, when the ONLY video game rental choice was the privately owned and operated rental shop.

Remember those days?

These stories are just…. I love them. They are BOFH for video game store owners and clerks.

If you have ever worked retail, most especially if you have ever worked retail at any video game store that takes used games in trade for crash or credit, you will love this man, and wish his stories really were true… some of them I can believe, others… well, I WANT to believe.

The sections on the sidebar each contain collections of stories, and they are the awesome.

On top of it, a friend of Gords’ started a webcomic version of some of the exploits of Gord, called Gamers Edge, and took off from there. The archive of comics is good, but nothing to me beats pure Gord.

Thank you, and have a nice work week.

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