tamthebam Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 8 hours ago, SlipperyP said: Today I walked into our main office. Im not there often. To witness our new employee of 30 yo and 20 stone. Making a ticktok video. How I know, was as I walk passed to say ok. She was sitting at the desk on the phone....On her screen was obviously her, but about 10 stone lighter. I moved on quickly, however couldn't but here her comments. 'Working hard, working for life hahhha' Insert Clint Eastwood gif pics or.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Killington Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 (edited) On 10/04/2024 at 11:02, Buzz Killington said: Got an email from a manager in another office to email a form to a customer, which i did, manager then phoned to tell me I had sent the email to him instead of the intended receipient. Without checking the first email I sent, I assumed I had hit reply instead of forward so i sent it again. Two minutes later another phone call "you've sent it to me again". Upon checking both emails, I sent both to the right person and had cc'd the manager into both so he could see it was done. Turns out he just doesn't understand that he can be cc'd into emails. "Why is it in my inbox if you sent it to the customer". Another cracker about this guy. Our company has an info@ email address that a lot of customers use as its on our website. Before an IT upgrade at the weekend a few people in each office had access to it and would forward any email as appropriate. After the IT upgrade the info@ email addreess is now appearing in everyones outlook as well as their own email address. A lot of people in our office, especially this guy can't cope with this and think every email to the info@ email address is to them and can't understand why they are getting email starting Dear Emma or Dear Jim. As of this morning it has reverted back to a few people in each office having access. Accountants are thick as shit. Edited August 28 by Buzz Killington 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fifer Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 On 27/08/2024 at 12:07, Mark Connolly said: I'm off work today as I have a hospital appointment, so will be missing a fortnightly meeting that I would normally have been in. At the previous meeting, I let everyone know I wouldn't be there today, and it was minuted. On Thursday, I sent all the required information for the meeting to everyone who will be attending, including a reminder that I wouldn't be there. All of them replied to confirm they had received the information. Last night at 9.30, I got a text from one of these colleagues to say she had just found out I won't be at the meeting, and thought I would have at least informed her in advance to give her time to prepare. I haven't replied yet, as she is one of the major supporters of the "don't reply to work emails and texts out of hours" policy, so wouldn't want her to be upset by me going against policy, but I do have a draft email prepared to send, which includes her acknowledging Thursday's email (and wishing me luck at today's appointment), along with a copy of the minutes from the previous meeting. Which she wrote. I think tomorrow will be fun. Update please. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 13 minutes ago, Big Fifer said: Update please. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BukyOHare Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 On 27/08/2024 at 14:39, SlipperyP said: Today I walked into our main office. Im not there often. To witness our new employee of 30 yo and 20 stone. Making a ticktok video. How I know, was as I walk passed to say ok. She was sitting at the desk on the phone....On her screen was obviously her, but about 10 stone lighter. I moved on quickly, however couldn't but here her comments. 'Working hard, working for life hahhha' Insert Clint Eastwood gif Wid. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Whip round for leaving presents for the placement year students? I haven’t fully rationalised my view on this, but my starting position is “HAHAHA, f**k the f**k off, then f**k off a bit more” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 5 hours ago, Big Fifer said: Update please. Sent the email on arrival in the office this morning. No reply, but she was stupid enough to have the read receipts on. She has avoided me all day, including when her boss asked me if everything went ok yesterday right outside her office. I reckon I can get a fair bit of mileage out of it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sortmeout Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 9 hours ago, Buzz Killington said: Another cracker about this guy. Our company has an info@ email address that a lot of customers use as its on our website. Before an IT upgrade at the weekend a few people in each office had access to it and would forward any email as appropriate. After the IT upgrade the info@ email addreess is now appearing in everyones outlook as well as their own email address. A lot of people in our office, especially this guy can't cope with this and think every email to the info@ email address is to them and can't understand why they are getting email starting Dear Emma or Dear Jim. As of this morning it has reverted back to a few people in each office having access. Accountants are thick as shit. The amount of people don’t understand the difference between “To” and “CC” is unreal. Similarly the amount of people who still think of emails as “new technology “ is also mind blowing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 6 minutes ago, Sortmeout said: The amount of people don’t understand the difference between “To” and “CC” is unreal. Similarly the amount of people who still think of emails as “new technology “ is also mind blowing. See also: people who don't understand the "BCC" function 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 40 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: See also: people who don't understand the "BCC" function People who do understand BCC, and then use it to be sneaky or devious are c**ts. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Never mind the bcc chat. I know folk who struggle to differentiate reply, reply all, and forward. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Just now, scottsdad said: Never mind the bcc chat. I know folk who struggle to differentiate reply, reply all, and forward. You can probably file me in this box. I get progressively angrier everytime I reply all and the attachments fall off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Some daftie who 'survived'(sic) the 2004 Asian Tsunami put out an email advertising a charity to help rebuild somewhere or other, managed to send to all and caused Fife Council's emails to freeze for a whole day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 25 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Never mind the bcc chat. I know folk who struggle to differentiate reply, reply all, and forward. Could I hazard a guess that some of them will be able to post videos on TikTok and Instagram without any issue? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 17 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Some daftie who 'survived'(sic) the 2004 Asian Tsunami put out an email advertising a charity to help rebuild somewhere or other, managed to send to all and caused Fife Council's emails to freeze for a whole day. About 15 years ago I worked at a company who sent an email to all staff re offering breast screening service to all females. One guy thought it was hilarious to forward it to a couple of his mates adding "aye and if any bonnie lassies wi' big knockers want their breasts screened then please form an orderly queue at my office door".......inadvertently copying in all staff. He was absolutely mortified and phoned the chairman at home that night to apologise......still working there to this day. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 2 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said: About 15 years ago I worked at a company who sent an email to all staff re offering breast screening service to all females. One guy thought it was hilarious to forward it to a couple of his mates adding "aye and if any bonnie lassies wi' big knockers want their breasts screened then please form an orderly queue at my office door".......inadvertently copying in all staff. He was absolutely mortified and phoned the chairman at home that night to apologise......still working there to this day. This didn't happen at work but an ex colleague of mine had a son who lived with his mum, not his estranged dad (my colleague) but he had a decent relationship with the boy. We worked abroad but he still got cc'd into the emails from his son's football team coach (U16s IIRC) The coach sent out an email to the team mailing list urging more commitment from the lads as some weren't turning up for training. My colleague who used to help with the coaching before he left, replied to the coach saying something along the lines of, "Aye, you'll not get any argument from me there. I know my Kevin is a lazy wee sh***" but replied to all. It was actually a shame because he was so upset with himself after his boy told him he wanted nothing more to do with him. Think they patched it up a few months later. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 34 minutes ago, jimbaxters said: This didn't happen at work but an ex colleague of mine had a son who lived with his mum, not his estranged dad (my colleague) but he had a decent relationship with the boy. I need a graph or chart to keep up with this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 30 minutes ago, scottsdad said: I need a graph or chart to keep up with this. I'll stick to GIFs in future. Until Giphy goes at least 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 I can think of 2 examples. One (I think I said this before) - quite recently. The prof was talking to the timetabling team about his course. He then "forwarded" an email on to me and added his own comments about how these folk were incompetent, were sabotaging him and so on. Except...he didn't forward it to me. He had in fact replied to the timetabling team. Guess who's teaching on Friday afternoons nowadays... Second, a colleague and I were dealing with a student who was basically lying to us. It was regards a coursework assessment he was trying to get out of and it was just paper-thin excuses. My colleague replied to me about how the lad was being dishonest, wasting his time, really needs to pull himself together, and so on. But he had included the student in the reply. On reflection, I thought it was probably a good thing for him to see some tough love. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 1 hour ago, scottsdad said: I can think of 2 examples. One (I think I said this before) - quite recently. The prof was talking to the timetabling team about his course. He then "forwarded" an email on to me and added his own comments about how these folk were incompetent, were sabotaging him and so on. Except...he didn't forward it to me. He had in fact replied to the timetabling team. Guess who's teaching on Friday afternoons nowadays... Second, a colleague and I were dealing with a student who was basically lying to us. It was regards a coursework assessment he was trying to get out of and it was just paper-thin excuses. My colleague replied to me about how the lad was being dishonest, wasting his time, really needs to pull himself together, and so on. But he had included the student in the reply. On reflection, I thought it was probably a good thing for him to see some tough love. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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