I had a fun one a few years back - the company it guy pulled me aside and then with a lot of hesitation/beating around the bush told me that someone on my team

I had a fun one a few years back - the company it guy pulled me aside and then with a lot of hesitation/beating around the bush told me that someone on my team had been mining crypto at work and that they would have to format their machine and disrupt their day as a result. Never felt so much relief to hear the world "crypto" as the delivery of the message had me confused and fearing bad things. When I spoke to the person about it turns out they'd started mining on their own hardware as a hobby and were just curious what the perf diff would be on the work computer's