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The Administrator
David was the system administrator of the
computer net of a midrange enterprise. After lunch he went down to the
basement, where the 6 servers made their uncomfortable sound. The problem
for a system administrator is: if there is trouble with the system, you
are the idiot, if all is right, the colleagues think, you have nothing
to do. A devilish game. David was good in his job, so he had often
nothing to do. It was a tricky fight to persuade his chief to allow the
installation of an internet access in this horrible server room with all
the noise and the air conditioner, where you have to sit and go with hat
and muffler even during summer. But his argumentation concerning
necessary downloads of drivers and email-support from outside convinced
in the end. Of course it was strictly forbidden to use the online web access
for private reasons. But he was the administrator, who should control
him. So he could follow his great passion during working time. He played
online casino in every free minute. It was for him a thing of fairness,
to make forgotten the unacceptable working conditions with the
excitement of gambling in the virtual casino halls. He did not play games where you
have to be concentrated, like poker or roulette systems. He had to react
fast, if someone would come in to the server room. He played slots. That
also was the fastest way to get the right on winnings, won with bonus
money, that the casinos offer so generous. So he won sometimes and loose
often, but he had fun and thrill during working time.
Today, when he went down after lunch to the server room of course was a
special day, why else we should talk about it.
David knew, that the jackpot in one of his favorite casino games, "gold rally", was at Pounds 600 000, he had a good nest egg in his account to
play al the afternoon until leisure time and he had a feeling, that it
was his day for making real money.
So he carefully closed the door and took place on that one system
management console with internet access.
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Unfortunately he had to sit
with his back to the door, but who should disturb him. He opened his firefox-browser and had to type in the casino adress which was high in
the online casino rating and recommendet by the online casino guides. Of
course he deleted all traces of his gambling after every online session,
so he had no shortcut or browser history with his online casino. After
logging in he decided to begin the things slowly. First he went to the
roulette table with the warm claret-red colour and played the
martingale for some minutes. It was not hard to make a little amount of
money with this. It was not much, but gave a good playing feeling for
the start. He continued with some minutes of casino war and made some
pounds here too. A good day, undoubtedly. Why wait any longer. He went
back to the glamorous casino lobby, where the girl with the
seductive smile showed him the way to the menu with all the possible
games like black jack, video poker, baccarat and all the different slot
machines. Gold rally was his choice. With satisfaction he noticed, that
the jackpot meanwhile even went higher to over 630 000 Pounds. So come
on David, it is your great gambling day.
And he began to play, hour after hour of the working afternoon and David
really and deeply was lost in the up and down of the game.
Than a hand was laying on his shoulder. A shiver, effected by the
direful shock , went through his body and caused at the same time a
twitch of his forefinger on the computer mouse.
Oh I know, it would be nice, if we could say that the uncontrolled click
brought David the jackpot. He would stand up and say to his chief: Ha,
fire me, yes I'm playing
online casino impermissible during working time and now I don't need your money any
longer, I won the jackpot, that is enough until pension.
And indeed, David had won the jackpot. And until his pension there were 3
years left, the jackpot would fill this gap easy. But 3 years before
pension a man is 62 years old, and with this age it is possible to get a
deadly heart attack, if in a critical moment a hand touches
the shoulder. So happened on this day.
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