A Funny Co-op Memory

Today in my marketing class we had to pretty much talk about our life story because the teacher required it. Definitely awkward but also funny and really enjoyable to see how people reacted to it. Other than the one kid that looked like he was going to attack the professor for touching his shoulder while he was talking about himself, it was funny. I, like an idiot, dropped the f-bomb, but eh, it wasn’t a huge deal. But anyway, I thought about my last co-op (since I had talked about it) and a funny story that happened on one of the first days there. This is a totally random post, but a funny story nonetheless.

With any new job, you try to play it real cool for at least the first week. Personally, it only takes me about a week before I get comfortable, but during that first week, I usually play my cards real tight and try to follow ALL of the rules. During that week, I happened to be checking my personal email. My mom had sent me an email labeled as something like “window washer”. I opened it and noticed it was forwarded so I assumed that it was some good joke my mom had found. Anyway, the email described that although you can clean your computer screen, the only real way to keep it clean, was to clean the inside of the screen. And of course, there was a link signaling me to get the inside of the screen washed.

I don’t know what I was thinking; I should have known better because my mom had sent it (if you don’t know my family too well, you may not understand why she would send an email like this to me). But like an idiot, I clicked the link (NSFW) and this appeared on my screen, on full screen. And of course, there was no way to escape.

Freaking out, I quickly pulled the plug on my computer since I was having a mini heart attack. Afterwards, when I talked to my mom, she died laughing. Has this happened to anyone else? Seriously, I don’t know if I had panicked like that EVER in an office. Oh well, at least I got a good story out of it.