The definition of irony

I want to tell you a little story about Satan.

Back when I started working at the industrial supply company from hell, there were no computers.

Alas, friends. I am not that old. This was in the year 2000. We conducted all transactions through a "tube" which was linked to the mainframe. We didn't even have work email.

About 3 months after I started working there, one computer was added to the purchasing department. It was communal.

Shortly after this, management -- which was largely computer illiterate -- discovered that the young bright kids they hired just out of local colleges could use the computers to do....

ANALYSIS.

Which could potentially help business.

Anyhow, eventually more and more of us got computers. I remember when I got mine. I'd been there for a year, and had had to do all my analysis by hand up until that point. It was one of the best days I had working there. It was when my ability to actually add value to that company took off.

They added computers to the warehouse too.

Until one day, Satan was walking through the warehouse and saw one of his supervisors downloading and printing off tax forms from the IRS web page.

From that moment on, computers were banned from the warehouse floor. And thus, it was impossible to get analytic work done while working on the floor.

Oh, and that employee was fired shortly thereafter.

Irony: When you see that Satan himself has a profile on facebook (and it has been suggested that you add him as a friend).

I guess Satan finally familiarized himself with the technology of the 20th century? I wonder if there are still no computers on the warehouse floor......