Leave Heather alone. There’s nothing wrong with this desktop background. Please refrain from remote connecting to her computer in the future.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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This is reminiscent of an absolute classic video.
If you are not familiar with a story about penis-arranged icons, I recommend giving it a watch.
Heather doesn't lock her computer when she walks away. Don't be like Heather.
It sounds far more likely to me that she right-clicked on some image file and picked "Set as desktop background".
"Director of Finance"
Probably makes 6 figures but doesn't understand how walpapers work.
Real talk it was probably Heather works under her and asked "hey what do I do when a large picture of mustard appears on my screen" and Director Of Finance said "reboot and if it's still there I'll let so-and-so know from IT, then emailed it off to so-and-so from IT directly instead of entering a ticket
Edit: actually reviewing the screenshot it looks like this email was to the ticketing system so Director of Finance appears to have followed the correct prcoess
My headcannon is more like, Director stops by and wants to know why Heather is looking at mustard bottles again, she has been warned about this, you see. She suddenly jumps and says "Oh, it uh, I was just working and then this happened." Well that's not fair is it? It's not like she was intentionally looking at mustard again
And that's the thing about IT, we save people's jobs. Even freaks. Blame us, Heather, our shoulders are broad.
It should have been sorted by penis.
"there is no arrange by penis option"
What was that called already? Can't remember the name!
The website is down.
Thank you!
We used to do this stuff to people who would leave their computers open, or flip the screen upside down.
It was a pretty benign way to teach people to lock their damn computers when they left.
You literally described every office, ever.
I'm not going to assume my experience is universal.
And this is why we have a GPO that locks the background to a corporate image.
I think it's nice if people can set their own background picture. They can put a picture of their pets or family members which lowers the stress.
A better policy would be to hire people who can actually do basic things with the thing they'll be working 8 hours a day with.
One place I worked they happened to roll out a desktop background group policy while I was there and I learned that one person would open the image they wanted as their background in an image viewer cirst first and leave it open while they opened everything else for the day so they could pretend their preferred background was still their background.
Honestly I'm of two minds on setting a background as a group policy, because on one hand having a set corporate-friendly background is good for maintaining a professional look, I've really yet to see any inappropriate backgrounds amongst the too many places and people I've supported that dont lock down backgrounds. Like at worst its sometimes awkward pictures of someone's loved ones that are just really bad photos, but usually if they have set something it's something that means something to them so it's a nice little touch of personalization that might be the thing that helps them make it through the day
having a set corporate-friendly background is good for maintaining a professional look
That kind of depends. When meeting with customers it might be preferred. But in most companies most of the computer screens are only seen by a handful of people who already work at the company.
I’ve really yet to see any inappropriate backgrounds
Inappropriate backgrounds would fall under the general inappropriate rules. Like watching porn at work. I've never seen that.
it’s something that means something to them
It might even be a nice icebreaker at times. Like a vacation picture could spark a nice little talk about the destination.
Yeah I think if I were in a decision making position and that was a decision to make, I'd include a standard corporate desktop image in my standard computer config but only enforce it by policy on customer-facing PCs