Title:           Take your pone to Work Day
Author:          writefagforpie
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First Edit:      Sunday 30th of November 2014 01:23:29 AM CDT
Last Edit:       Last edit on: Sunday 30th of November 2014 01:23:45 AM CDT

>Greg had been awaiting this day the whole week.
>Today was finally the day; Bring your Pony to Work Day.
>IE had also been excited all week; you've told her so many time how much you love your job.
>You had been wondering how many other people were going to bring their ponies with them...
>No matter.
>You picked out your best sweater, donned your vest, and set out with IE.
>"So Greg, you haven't actually told me where you work, yet."
"Really? All the time I've spent telling you how much I love it, and I haven't mentioned a name?"
>"Nope."
"Well, the server manager job I have is at Google."
>You didn't notice, because you were driving, but IE's face went from curious to stone solemn in half a second flat.
>"Y-you work at Google?"
"Yeah! It's so great there. I-"
>"I know. I've heard."
"You okay? That was pretty bitter sounding."
>"No, it's nothing. Let's keep going."
>Unsure what you said, you continued on to work.
>You took your normal parking spot, grabbed your coffee cup and set off with IE.
>The building you worked in was pretty large, and it was kept very cold to keep the servers running at peak performance.
>IE was wearing a green sweater at your suggestion to keep warm.
>"Well this is nice, I suppose."
"See? I told you you would like it."
>"Maybe."
>As the two walked to where Greg's office was, they saw several people with their pones with them.
>Greg greeted a few while passing by.
"Well, glad to see that we're not the only ones, hmm?"
>"Yeah, that's good."
>You had only known IE for a couple weeks, but you two were already pretty good friends
>You finally arrived at your office, unlocking the door and letting IE in
"Well, here's where I spend most of my day."
>"It's quaint."
"Yeah, I like to think so."
>Greg sat at his desk, doing a couple spins in his chair before booting up his computer.
>"So what do you normally do while you're here?"
"Well, a lot of time is usually spent piddling on the computer. Today, though, I've got to do a maintenance check on the servers"
>"Can I come with you when you do?"
"Of course. I didn't bring you here to just sit around all day,"
>For an hour, she did just that though.
>You didn't need to start your run, so the two of you watched Youtube videos
>IE was, thankfully, a technologically sound pone, so she was easy to get along with by just watching Youtube videos
>After the hour was up, it was time to do a server check.
>You and IE left the office and walked to the server room.
>The server room was absolutely massive.
>It had towers of RAM running for what seemed to be over a football field in length
>"Wow, this is impressive"
"Not many people get to see inside this room. Consider yourself lucky"
>"I do. This place is amazing"
"I'm glad you think so. This might take a little while, so you can keep with me the whole time, or you can go explore a little if you want."
>"I'll stay here for now; I'm curious to what you have to do.
>IE watched you work for about thirty minutes, going from tower to tower, checking to make sure the servers were all up and running
>She had planned to stay with him the whole time, but the process started to become very monotonous after the first few times.
>She eventually ventured away without saying anything to Greg, assuming he would guess she went to explore.
>The server room was cool, but this building was massive.
>She had to give Google credit for one thing, at least; this place was impressive.
>She was greeted by people and their ponies while clopping down the hallway, and she greeted them back.
>A couple of the ponies have her bad looks; mainly, a yellow earth pony mare with fiery red mane and tail
>Instinctively, she sneered back without knowing why
>After a few minutes of walking, she came across large room filled many many cubicles
>Curiously, she went from cubicle to cubicle, seeing if any of the men were doing anything interesting.
>She noticed one watching a Youtube video abou- Was he using Firefox?
>Oh no he WASN'T.
"Uhm, mister? Excuse me, why are you using that browser?"
>She felt like she was being a little up front, but this was a problem that needed to be solved.
>"Excuse me; do I know you?"
"If you don't, you should. My name is Internet Explorer, and I just noticed you were watching a video on a Firefox browser. Why is that?"
>"Because that's just the browser that I use. What's it matter?"
>What does it matter? Oh, he needed a talking to.
"What matters, is the fact that your browser is badly coded, chunky, and slow. You should consider updating."
>"Are you kidding? Internet Explorer is literally the slowest browser out there!"
"Have you updated to the latest version?"
>"Well of course not!"
"There's your problem. It can outperform Firefox ANY day of the week, I'll have you know.
>"Look, if I wanted to use a shitty browser I would go download Chrome. Now buzz off!"
>"Who said Chrome was shitty?"
>The white mare with the multi colored wing tips stormed around the corner of the cubicle, looking like someone just slapped her ass
>"i'll have you know that Chrome is easily the fastest of the three browsers!"
>"C-chrome, please stop yelling. You'll get us in-"
>She ignored him in favor of yelling even louder
>"And YOU, you blue bitch!"
"What did you call me?!"
>IE was pissed now. Everyone in this building was so ignorant and wrong
"You wouldn't know fast if it slapped you upside your pitiful face!"
>"Yeah, well.-"
>The arguing continued onward for a good ten minutes, and the yellow mare from before, known as Firefox, had also ran in to join in the argument.
>The respective pone's friends tried to get them to stop arguing, save for IE's, since he was busy
>Eventually, though, Greg came running into the cubicle room and dragged IE out of the argument by her hind legs
"I swear on my life, I will have your throat! I will"
"IE, what has gotten into you?"
>"They were using the wrong browser!"
"I don't care! You will come with me and you will behave, do you understand?"
>She put her pout face on and crossed her hooves as she was drug down the hallway
>Back at the server room, Greg continued where he left off.
"Now you are going to stay here next to me until you can prove you will not act up."
>"Yeah, whatever mom."
"Young lady, I will-..."
>Greg turned back around and tried to ignore her before he turned into his own parents.
>IE didn't budge from next to Greg for a whole hour.
>He began to feel bad for her, just sitting and watching him work.
"Tell you what. If you promise to behave, I'll let you go again. But please, PLEASE promise not to get in any fights."
>"Fine. I promise."
"Thank you."
>IE was beginning to get hungry, so she decided the cafeteria would be where she tried to find next.
>The building was laid out in a fashion where everything was easy to find
>She quickly found the cafeteria, and found it to be filled with people and their ponies.
>It was an inviting enough atmosphere.
>She got an apple and some water and went to sit at one of the tables.
>A man sitting a couple seats down from her was browsing on his... Mac Book? What was he even thinking?
"Uhm, excuse me, sir?"
>"Hmm?"
>He didn't look over
"I was just curious why you were using a mac book, as apposed to a PC?"
>"Because it's better than a PC at pretty much everything."
>A vein almost snapped in IE's head.
>Greg's words echoed, "You can't do that here!"
>IE took a deep breath and exhaled.
>She wouldn't let herself get into another fight; especially not in the cafeteria
>She munched on her apple and drank her water, fuming in silence.
>Another peak over revealed that the man was also browsing using Safari
>IE was sure this man was trying to make her eat her own mane, because she was close
>Luckily for her, Greg walked into the Cafeteria shortly and sat down next to her with his food
>"Have you been doing well? Not getting in fights?"
"So far so good."
>He rubbed her ears before diving into his chicken salad sandwich
"I'm glad. I'm almost done with all the servers I needed to check today, then we can spend the rest of the day watching Youtube or something. Sound good?"
>"Yeah, it does. I'm sorry I snapped."
"It's fine. Not sure why you did, but it's whatever. No one was hurt."
 
TBC