Happy Hour Virus: Happy Hour Virus

The Happy Hour Virus is both a recruitment effort and a public service to desk drones everywhere. The brief was "share the agency's commitment to a work/life balance." Site visitors will see the instructions: "Step 1. Tell your friends you're leaving work. Step 2. Select a screen mode to ‘break' your computer. Step 3. Make frustrated sigh. Exit building." Selecting either “Kernal Panic,""Broken Monitor" or "Blue Screen of Death" will then turn their full-screen monitor into, respectively, a restart message (in Engish, French, German and Polish), shifting rows of broken rasters, or a scrolling blue screen of computer gobbledygook (A problem has been detected and your computer has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS EQUAL). In each case, hitting ESC returns the screen to normal.

Those taking the time to look this gift horse in the mouth will also read, along with an invitation to visit the TDA job application site, It is a philosophy of TDA Boulder that we are all better employees if we achieve something called a work-life balance. However, pursuing that goal is not always an easy task in today's corporate culture. Please use the Happy Hour Virus to leave work early and enjoy the company of friends, family or co-workers. We are aware that this might jeopardize your productivity the following day, but we are willing to take that risk on your behalf.