i got drunk and ranted at novacorps about that one guy from the winter soldier and she tumblr deserved to see it so here is some copy pasta with some screen caps snagged from kissthemgoodbye.net
the bald guy with the beard looks like he’s from it
‘hello? i’m here to install your new printers OH MY GOSH WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?’
‘…’
‘…i’ll just stand out of the way.’
‘oh here’s your problem you plugged his arm into the monitor instead of the usb port’
‘you guys have any coffee down here?’
The bald guy with the beard from IT is staring at Alexander Pierce like he can’t believe someone programmed the Winter Soldier in C++ without accounting for the buffer overflow issue when it’s obviously a memory leak just waiting to happen. And Pierce’s solution is to thump the hardware to see if he can “shake it loose.”
IT guy is 100% done. Of course, pointing this out would be a career-limiting move of the kind that’d result in him ceasing to move altogether. He’s heard rumours of what happened to Jerry and Raj from the HYDRA:net helpdesk that one time with Westfahl from STRIKE and the Pornhub trojan. HYDRA tech support is one hell of a get-out-of-debt job.
“Well,” he says, eyeing the twitching heap of scrapcode in the chair. “Have you tried rebooting?”
And if that doesn’t work, he thinks, he’ll tell Pierce it’s not a bug, it’s a feature, and take his chances running.
And it’s like, 10x funnier when you consider that ‘guy from IT’ is Ed Brubaker, who like, wrote the whole Winter Soldier resurrection arc, and here he is like,
*sigh* “Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?” and wondering why the hell these guys are so rough on the tech because *it’s a delicate fucking tool, not a goddamn sledgehammer you fucking meatheads* but it’s not like he’s gonna say that.
There is nothing about this that isn’t perfect.
