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Todays irritating email
Fred W B - 15/6/07 at 12:57 PM

Those of you who work in bigger companys, with a network, don't you just hate e mails like the one I responded to as below?

Or am I being a BOF?

" HI AB

Please put the job number in the title of the mail.

Also, is it too much to ask that you copy clip the text of the minutes into the mail as well, saves 15 different people a minute or two in looking up the information

Thanks



Fred




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From: A BLOKE
Sent: 15 June, 2007 2:47 PM
To: LOTS OF PEOPLE
Subject:



You will find the minutes of job 7898 at the following place.



P//Public/TC Production/ All Prototypes Info.

vinny1275 - 15/6/07 at 01:18 PM

I don't think you're being a BOF. Zapping him with a cattle-prod and extorting money off him (not necessarily in that order) would be more in line with that.....

I think it's perfectly reasonable, especially the subject line bit.

The only thing with doing that kind of thing by email is that it's a bit too easy for the recipient to mis-read your reasonable request for a rant ( a colleague and I hardly ever email each other now, we speak on the phone instead, as we wind each other up over email. We get on a lot better now...) A quick phone call is sometimes better.

And then you can zap them with a cattle prod

scottc - 15/6/07 at 01:21 PM

Cattleprod
Shovel
Lime


Job done!

chockymonster - 15/6/07 at 01:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scottc
Cattleprod
Shovel
Lime


Job done!


Nah,

empty elevator shaft, much more accidental.

nick205 - 15/6/07 at 02:11 PM

P45 and a leaving gift

Guinness - 15/6/07 at 03:24 PM

That's not too bad. I got an email from one of our guys telling the whole company his Ford Fiesta was up for sale!

Mike

millenniumtree - 15/6/07 at 06:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mangogrooveworkshop
There was a lot of red faces as they brought the email system to a grinding halt for days with replys for the porn channels


Excellent.
I'm working for the wrong place, that's for sure.

JoelP - 15/6/07 at 06:30 PM

i had some invoices returned the other week because i hadnt put the order number on them. She had the remedial number which the computer would easily get the order number from, so instead of spending a few mins looking it up, she sent it back. Which didnt save her any effort, since i have to ring her for the order numbers anyway! If they had done their job right they would've sent me full paperwork out in advance and id've had the order number up front.