Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

Who, Me? You can fool some of the people some of the time, but The Register tries to entertain all of its readers most of the time and especially early on Monday mornings, when we present a new installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace mayhem and mischief.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Fred" who told us that in the 1990s he worked in tech support for a government agency.

"The work was pretty routine, but being in that particular environment was never dull... at least not for me," he told The Register.

To prove his point, Fred told us that one day a user he said we should refer to as "Emily" complained that her word processor had lost the ability to print on the resident HP LaserJet. Fred diagnosed this as a driver drama and had it fixed ...