Thursday, October 21, 2010

I NEED A HERO! (like Bonnie Tyler said)

I started back at my old job in Salt Lake last week when I got home from Alaska.  Because I had been gone for so long, I had to come back like I was a new employee.  That means I had to get a new work e-mail, and everything.  The only thing that I needed was my password that pretty much controls everything I have to do (i.e. logging on, payroll, email, etc.). However, to ensure security they force you to change your password every so often.  To make it easy on myself I would change one number of my password so I didn’t have to change the whole thing every time.  Little did I know it would actually make it harder in the long run.  Because I couldn’t remember the one changed number of my password, I had to call to get it reset.  I called, and a man answered who had no sense of humor whatsoever, but was helpful, so at least he knew how to do his job.  I told him the situation and he asked me to answer my security questions; #1- what is the name of your elementary school? – Well, that’s easy, Rosecrest.  #2- Who is your hero?-…..blank.  I have no idea who I would have put for my hero on a stupid security question.  I say to the boring man “I have no idea what I put for this.” He says “It starts with an H.” I quickly think of people’s names that start with H….nope, can’t do it.  So I say so. He then says “H-A.” And I think oh crap. “Did I put myself as my hero?” and laugh loudly (in my very quite crowded office) “Yup” is all the man says and does not think the situation is humorous at all.  And THEN I remember putting myself as my hero not because I am a narcissistic jerk (which I’m sure is what humorless phone guy thought), but because at that time I couldn’t think who to put as my hero that I would remember, so I put my own name thinking surly I would recall that moment.   Sorry out there boring, overly serious password resetting phone guy, I hope I don’t really know you in real life. I guess I need to get a real hero.

1 comment:

  1. This is sooo funny! Thank you for giving me a reason to laugh, you're my hero too HAYLIE!

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