BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry
EPISODE 12 "What's everybody here for?" the Boss asks, peering worriedly at the long line of people extending out of the wedged-open door of Mission Control, continuing on down the corridor.
"It's the amnesty," the PFY replies.
"The amnesty?"
"Oh, I forget!" the PFY says. "You've not been here that long. Every year or so we run an amnesty, where users can fess up to damaging, destroying, or losing our equipment, no questions asked."
"No questions?"
"Well, typically they'll explain what they did, because it's amnesty day – for one day only – and there's no retribution."
"Yeah. Well, take this bloke. This is his six-month-old laptop. It's a laptop that we expressly told him – several times – not to carry around with the cables still plugged in. And what did he do?"
"I... uh..."
"He caught it in the lift door, damaging the power socket so that it...
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