The laptop power supply, why is it that it always disappears? I thought it was a phenomenon native only to certain clients, but all of a sudden, they are disappearing everywhere. As I searched high and low, querying my fellow IT professionals and pulling my hair out obsessively a power supply conversation came up proceeded by the production of a P.O. for 2 new power supplies.

As an IT professional, a human with a laptop and one with entrepreneurial spirit, I propose one of the following solutions to IT’s equivalent of the lone sock in the dryer:

  1. Get approval for and install POA (Power Over Air) in all office buildings
  2. Install mandatory tethering devices from laptop to power supply
  3. Raid the lost and found of every hotel, motel and convention center and provide a roaming service that replaces power supplies for a small profit