Great story and conclusion that the problem got fixed. > Have you had to play games as part of your tech support duties? Well sort-of. My first co-op job was

Great story and conclusion that the problem got fixed. > Have you had to play games as part of your tech support duties? Well sort-of. My first co-op job was at the Ministry of Transportation. They had a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet that had planning costs for highway construction projects. All I had to do was add or fix up some of the formulas on them. All quite rudimentary, but it seemed at the time there really wasn't many in the office with 1-2-3 experience as the PC and software was new to the office. So the rest of the time I chatted with folks and waited for the coffee+snack trolley to come around twice a day and otherwise take breaks. I got bored fast as there was no other work to do. One day I brought in my Atari 400 and just started writing games. The others seemed to enjoy seeing them too. Got a good work term review. They asked me if I knew any other smart candidates and I mentioned a friend of mine who was hired for the next term (after an initial mixup with another person with the same first/last, co-incidentally a classmate but not the friend I meant).