Woman Rashly Makes Important Decision

Sacramento, CA – Bonnie Feltzberg was working on her computer at work on Tuesday afternoon when a strange message occurred. Feltzberg works as an office administrator for an travel agency in the heart of Sacramento. Her skills are not limited to excellent organization, incredible people skills and extreme proficiency in typing, according to her online Monster.com resume that helped her land the job. One thing that the resume didn’t mention was a proficiency in computer programming.

While working on the online client database for her boss, Feltzberg encountered something she had never seen before. After taking a short break to get a cup of water from the water cooler across the offices, she returned to an error message at the top of her screen. “There it was,” said Feltzberg pointing to the top of her screen. “I didn’t know what to do.” The error message notified Feltzberg, the operator of the computer, that an unknown error had occurred and gave her the option to continue the script in question or to stop it. “I was puzzled. The only scripts I know about were the ones that I memorized for my high school plays,” chuckled Feltzberg. But, this was no laughing matter.

The choice to continue or stop the script rested in Feltzberg’s hands and she didn’t realize the implications of her actions. She considered contacting James in I.T., but soon remembered that he was on his lunch break and didn’t want to bother him with the option placed before her.

The mouse’s onscreen pointer hovered over both options as Feltzberg attempted to make a logical decision based on no computer knowledge what-so-ever. After what Feltzberg described as less than 20 seconds, but probably more than 10, she made her selection. She decided to stop the script.

“I figured, if it was doing something wrong, it was best to stop it. And if it was something vital for the computer to keep on going that the computer would start it up again.” Feltzberg waited a few more seconds to see if anything had changed. The mouse’s onscreen pointer showed that the computer was thinking for only a split second and then the familiar screen that was present before Feltzberg’s company time-stealing trip to the water cooler had begun.

What Feltzberg and many other naive Americans don’t realize is the importance of the scripts that run. With the cancellation of each script, an American job is lost to an overseas competitor. While Washington continues to wrestle with budgetary concerns, it has made little to no efforts to educate the uninformed about the weight of the decisions that they make while operating their computer when online.

Sacramento Senator Barbra Boxer was contacted about this matter. While she declined to comment, off the record, she mentioned that she has brought this issue up time and time again behind closed doors and others refused to take any initiative to develop even an advertising campaign to inform idiots what they are doing to our nation’s infrastructure. While Boxer said that in some arenas, they are making headway in alerting the brain-dead masses, it isn’t an issue that is glamorous enough to be spearheaded by any major politicians. Plus, most of them are making considerable profits in their own companies by the removal of American jobs and sending them overseas.

Feltzberg’s actions created a new position at a Sprint call center in New Delhi, India. They also caused the firing of a car salesman in Tallahassee, Florida.

Boxer, off the record, urges all Americans to think twice before stopping scripts. The next job you save may be your own, but hopefully it will be stupid Feltzberg’s.