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[jeff061]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

I work for a large IT company (you've heard of it) and this happens at least once a month. Last month's was a doozy as it started in the Asian call center groups in the middle of the night and then died down. But as soon as the US woke up, it began anew and hit something like 400 messages.

It always has the same pattern:
*1 stupid message*
*5 people with a response of "remove me from this list"*

And it spawns a litany of:

• "Remove me from this list"
• "Stop hitting reply all"
• A manager or three who have "had enough" and "escalated things"
• An occasional a-hole who knows what is going on and has something sarcastic to say about how this is an IT company and people should know better.

SI

And currently I am working for a large IT company you've likely heard of as well. I am seeing a trend...

I was expecting the manager wave to hit shortly after I posted, but amazingly it didn't.

[SirFozzie]

Originally Posted by jeff061

Someone accidentally put a huge distribution list on an email. 7 idiots reply to all with questions related to the topic.

About 40 and counting more people replied to all telling everyone to stop replying to all. All within the last 5 minutes.

I'm living a Dilbert joke. Wonder how high it goes.

Yeah, that happened here at my job (you don't work for the big E in Hopkinton, do you Jeff?) Could be worse, last time it happened, it got so bad that a representative for an Executive Vice President replied that continuing to feed the overwhelming volume of information would be treated as abuse of company systems...

[jeff061]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Yeah, that happened here at my job (you don't work for the big E in Hopkinton, do you Jeff?) Could be worse, last time it happened, it got so bad that a representative for an Executive Vice President replied that continuing to feed the overwhelming volume of information would be treated as abuse of company systems...

Lol, I figured you'd read this Fozz.


VDI Support at your service. In Southboro.

[SirFozzie]

Originally Posted by jeff061

Lol, I figured you'd read this Fozz.


VDI Support at your service. In Southboro.

Ah! Ok, yeah, we were looking at the same thread then. (was checking email in preperation for a 2-10 shift)

I thought they completely closed Southboro down? I knew they moved a bunch of folks out of there because of the leases expiring...

Oh, and if you're using Uniphi... GET OUT so I can get in *grins*. I'd love to see the faces of the guys who maintain Uniphi with the regular snowstorms.

[jeff061]

They closed Westborough down, moved to Southboro.

I'm contracting, not a perm employee, doing the virtual desktop rollout. Was actually down in your office(I think) doing the dog and pony show for it a few months back in the caf.

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by Poli

Not exactly. She's pretty much dead to me....my taunting is more in that I tell everyone she knows how I feel about it. .

Sweet.

I don't have to throw out the 'you're a better man then me' line since I don't like anyone being better than me.

[SirFozzie]

Originally Posted by jeff061

They closed Westborough down, moved to Southboro.

I'm contracting, not a perm employee, doing the virtual desktop rollout. Was actually down in your office(I think) doing the dog and pony show for it a few months back in the caf.

171.

Ah, yeah, got an email about it recently. Should be interesting.

[jeff061]

Start kissing ass. I can make or break you with 2 mouse clicks.

/enforcing the power hungry IT guy stereotype

[AnalBumCover]

With the gourmet food truck revolution in full effect - I just consumed a delicious "Mexi-terranean" fusion burrito the other day - I thought to myself: "What will become of the good old roach coach?"

[JonInMiddleGA]

Random sales tip time: The harder you work to obscure simple details (such as price), the more suspicious I become about your intentions. Same goes for trying so hard to convince me that you're "trying to help" while simultaneously refusing to answer very simple direct questions.

edit to add: Related tip -- if I call you with cash in hand to buy X, once I make it clear that I'm not interested in alternative Y or Z then your insistence on continuing down those paths puts you at risk of losing the sale of X as well.

In case anyone is wondering, I'm dealing with newspaper reps today. They're probably the worst about this stuff, although I see it to some degree with most media types.

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I agree with MikeVic, though - mags are almost totally worthless. My SI used to come on Thursday. I had read nearly everything I wanted to read online before it came. And most of it was dated by then, anyway. I let my subscription expire.

We subscribe to The Atlantic. I think that that's worth it--long form analysis that is current but not really news. I prefer to read that in magazine form instead of online.

I completely agree that any sort of news magazine seems very dated by the time you get it.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I sure wish there was a fast way to get information. I'm tired of waiting until I read my Monday morning newspaper to find out who won all the football games on Sunday. And I HAVE to read the comics first to find out if Garfield wakes up from his nap, if Hi and Lois have gotten divorced, or if Prince Valiant's artist has gotten any better at drawing. By the time I know the score of the Broncos game, it's damn near noon Monday.

[Pumpy Tudors]

On the old Tom and Jerry cartoons, why did that fat black woman always refer to Tom as Jasper?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

On the old Tom and Jerry cartoons, why did that fat black woman always refer to Tom as Jasper?

The characters were originally named Jasper & Jinx when they debuted in a 1940 theatrical release. To the surprise of the studio, the project became a favorite of theater owners & they had to quickly change their plans to have it be a forgettable one-off & turn it into the series that we came to know as Tom & Jerry.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

The characters were originally named Jasper & Jinx when they debuted in a 1940 theatrical release. To the surprise of the studio, the project became a favorite of theater owners & they had to quickly change their plans to have it be a forgettable one-off & turn it into the series that we came to know as Tom & Jerry.

Well, I'll be corn-fed and stuffed in a clothes hamper. I had no idea.

[Draft Dodger]

I did not know that

[Chief Rum]

Jasper?

[Chief Rum]

Jasper: Talking out of turn...that's a paddling. Looking out the window...that's a paddling. Staring at my sandals...that's a paddling. Paddling the school canoe...ooh, you better believe that's a paddling

[Coffee Warlord]

So I order Papa Johns.

Somebody else's order gets delivered to me. I call, let em know, they call the driver to turn around and give me the right order. S'okay, it happens.

Here's the thing. So somebody's else's order was sitting out in my house for a good 20 minutes...and the driver takes it, saying he needs to get it to the right customer.

Good lord. They seriously are going to deliver pizza that's been sitting at a complete stranger's house?

Sent a long message to Papa John's corporate. That's...kinda unnerving.

[DaddyTorgo]

You better hope your pizza wasn't sitting at somebody else's house too!!

That's the kind of thing that'd make me never order from them again - because everytime I did I would wonder if my pizza had a similar odyssey on its way to me...

[cartman]

Tell me, Pumpy, have the lambs stopped screaming?

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by cartman

Tell me, Pumpy, have the lambs stopped screaming?

I was out of town when that shit happened.

[Suburban Rhythm]

Wasn't sure where to post this (HS recruiting thread? Nah). And wasn't sure if it deserved it's own thread. Plus recent mention of SI in this thread.

Most recent copy of SI has a great article about Alliquippa, outside of Pittsburgh-- home toMiek Ditka, Ty Law, Darelle Revis, Sean Gilbert, and Tony Dorsett, among others. The effect of the decline of of the community and resilience of the football program. Excellent read.

Over five decades of economic decline and racial conflict, - 01.31.11 - SI Vault

[Bad-example]

I Cutlered my knee a couple weeks ago helping my dad after he fell in the shower. Should have gone to the doctor but decided to gut it out. The swelling is mostly gone but the popping and pain aren't getting better. Thinking I need to bite the bullet and go see a doc.

[DataKing]

Brain: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Pinky: I think so, Brain. But if our knees bent the other way, how would we ride a bicycle?

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

You better hope your pizza wasn't sitting at somebody else's house too!!

That's the kind of thing that'd make me never order from them again - because everytime I did I would wonder if my pizza had a similar odyssey on its way to me...

My sentiments exactly.

I'm kinda wondering what they'll respond to me with (if anything at all). I'm betting I get a bunch of free pizza that I'll be terrified to use.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

My sentiments exactly.

I'm kinda wondering what they'll respond to me with (if anything at all). I'm betting I get a bunch of free pizza that I'll be terrified to use.

You should be terrified of Papa Johns pizza either way

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by Bad-example

The swelling is mostly gone but the popping and pain aren't getting better. Thinking I need to bite the bullet and go see a doc.

I read that as pooping not popping and thought that you really need more fiber if you are putting your knees into going.

[JediKooter]

Funny, I don't remember sending myself a spam email trying to sell Viagra, but, somehow, I sent myself a spam email trying to sell me some Viagra. Checking my Sent folder, there's nothing saying that I sent myself a spam email trying to sell me Viagra. I feel like watching Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country now.

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Funny, I don't remember sending myself a spam email trying to sell Viagra, but, somehow, I sent myself a spam email trying to sell me some Viagra. Checking my Sent folder, there's nothing saying that I sent myself a spam email trying to sell me Viagra. I feel like watching Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country now.

Why does God need Viagra?

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally Posted by Lathum

You should be terrified of Papa Johns pizza either way

BETTER INGREDIENTS BETTER PIZZA, BITCH.

[jeff061]

And the guy on the commercial is mother fuckin' likable!

[Pumpy Tudors]

I've seen William Shatner hit it Navy style.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Mustang

Why does God need Viagra?

Close. The god one was Star Trek The Final Frontier.

The Undiscovered Country: One of the plots was Scotty and company, trying to figure out why it appeared that the Enterprise fired a photon torpedo at the Klingon ambassadors ship, when a visual count shows that they did not & the crew knows that they didn't, but, their weapons computer system says they did.

However, I have to agree with your question though. You would think he could just give it a magic touch...problem solved.

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Close. The god one was Star Trek The Final Frontier.

Ahh yes.

Sorry, after the whale one I just kinda zoned out on those after that until they started with the Next Generation ones.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by DataKing

Brain: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Pinky: I think so, Brain. But if our knees bent the other way, how would we ride a bicycle?

Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: Are you pondering cheese sticks?

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

I've seen William Shatner hit it Navy style.

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain? BOB!!!!

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Mustang

Ahh yes.

Sorry, after the whale one I just kinda zoned out on those after that until they started with the Next Generation ones.

Haha! Star Trek 5 was not very good. It had potential though, but, felt more like when a chick is giving you a hand job and near the end, she says, "My arm is tired, you can go ahead and finish yourself".

[cartman]

If this little piggie had roast beef, while this little piggie had none, why didn't the piggie without roast beef ask the one who went to the market to bring him back some?

[DataKing]

Originally Posted by cartman

If this little piggie had roast beef, while this little piggie had none, why didn't the piggie without roast beef ask the one who went to the market to bring him back some?

Can your toes speak to one another? Mine can't.

[cartman]

Originally Posted by DataKing

Can your toes speak to one another? Mine can't.

One of them goes "wee wee wee" all the way home.

[DataKing]

Originally Posted by cartman

One of them goes "wee wee wee" all the way home.

Hmm...I thought that was an actual pig in the back seat of a minivan, holding a pinwheel.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by sabotai

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain? BOB!!!!

That is the best.

[MJ4H]

Today was one month and was way harder than I thought it would be.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I was listening to a song last night... "You want to get your hands on a woman, but you don't want a woman on your hands."

Um, yeah.... so what's wrong with that?

[jeff061]

Just found out I made the President's club at work.

I don't know what qualified me(other than being pretty amazing). I do know that I am going to Jamaica though.

[JediKooter]

I thought this was funny: hxxp://houston.craigslist.org/crg/2185197230.html

EDIT: It is work safe. No pictures either.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

Today was one month and was way harder than I thought it would be.

[cartman]

Ok, this is simply awesome. The mascot for the Arkansas School for the Deaf is... the Leopards. That's right, the Deaf Leopards.

Arkansas School for the Deaf - Go Leopards!

[PilotMan]

I know what time it is when I am updating an FOF file and I see B.J. Diaz - C - 15/56, and I think, " Do I need a catcher?"