Fast Fame
Want instant fame?
Sure you do.
Everyone who has ever gone to high school has wanted to be popular.
So what do you do?
Get yourself a goddamn system bug that will e-mail your name and contact information to the entire Stanford University!
One minute I’m minding my own beeswax and being the model employee that I am (Hey. My supervisor is the one who called me that. Sure he may have been sarcastic, but he called me "model employee" all the same!) and the next thing I know I have 182 new messages in my e-mail inbox and my phone is ringing off the hook! Practically every single Stanford employee with an e-mail address who works past 3:30 either called or e-mailed me (or had their secretary call or e-mail me) to ask why they received a message from the Remedy system telling them to contact me if they had any questions about some random case they know nothing about.
By 4pm I had an e-mail auto-responder in place to say "if you’re e-mailing me about a message you got from Remedy, ignore it. Its a system bug and IT is working on it." I also programed my phone to go directly to voicemail with a similar message: if you’re calling about an e-mail you received, its a bug - ignore it. If you’re really calling for me (which is not likely since no one ever calls me these days), then go ahead an leave a message. I’ll call you back once I’m done throttling the Remedy programmers.
I can’t imagine how many more e-mails and voice messages I’ll have tomorrow morning from the people who had already gone home when the message was sent.
On the bright side, it was a good way to meet new people. Most people were very sympathetic when they heard what happened. And now the entire Stanford knows my -full- name (take note, Remedy broadcasted "Kristine Laurel DeCastro) and contact information. - I arguably have one of the most popular (though not necessarily in a good way) names in the entire 94305 zip code.
Who needs Hollywood when a system bug can give you fame in an instant?
