It's a verb, it's a noun, it's an adjective!

I've recently learnt something about people from the fine state of Queensland. No matter the situation, be it a conference call, tax meeting, or even a funeral, swearing is a-OK to be used, sometimes as a punctuation mark, or even as a breath marker between words.

Our Brisbane office suddenly went offline this morning - strangely, no-one had called me. After thinking about this for about 30 minutes (I didn't want to set a precedent where I call people and solve their problems before they knew about it, I'd rather kill myself), I decided to call them to see what's going on - apparently being proactive looks good, or something.

I got TheFuckingFucker on the line. Fuck is to be used at all times with this guy.

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Me: "Hi, you guys are offline!"
TheFuckingFucker: "Yea, my fucking internet is down! I can't access anything, I restarted our firewall, still fucked! What the fuck is going on?"
Me: "...you didn't think to ring me? Please tell me you weren't playing with the cables at the back of the servers"
TFF: "Fuck yea I thought I could fix it, but fuck it aye? What the fuck is going on?"
Me: "....check your network cable to your local machine."
TFF: "Shit fuck its backup! Thanks mate!"

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The aftermath, of course, is that now TheFuckingFucker calls me all the time for tiny, annoying problems that he could fix, and catches me on Skype as well.

Today's lesson - only help when asked, don't be helpful.