I work for a media company and one day a senior subeditor for one of Australia's preeminent newspapers called to complain that one of his writers had been locked out of Active Directory. When I found out the writer was a permanent staff member who did the obits, I removed the end date from the account and advised the sub that unlike the subjects he wrote about, the obit-writer's account would never expire.

I was gratified that I got a guffaw, and we ended the phone call.