IT support staffers at this online bank decide it’s time to try playing the lottery as a group, reports a pilot fish on the scene.

“The database admins, networking people, sysadmins, command center staff, storage and backup people all joined in on a pool for one of the large Powerball lotteries,” fish says. “The lottery was large enough that, if we were the only winners, we wouldn’t need to work again — or at least not for a long time.

“When the IT director found out how much of his staff had joined in, how much they could win and what their likely response would be — take this job and @#$%! it! — he immediately realized that, if it happened, there would be no one to monitor the production runs, cleanse database logs, reboot Windows servers or fix any problems.

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