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While working on my most recent project, I realized that I needed a group created. But, I’ll spare you from techno babble by simply saying, due to SOX requirements, I can’t do this task myself. I needed to get someone else to do it.

I asked my boss who I should call to get this taken care of. He informed me that the person I needed to contact is this guy named Jeff who is located in DC. Okay, not a problem.

So, I tried to get in touch with Jeff. I called him three or four times and sent him an email. He finally responds the following morning by sending me an email referring me to one of his underlings in DC; a guy named Tad.

Fine. I sent an email to Tad. I also called him two times. Finally, on the third call, I was able to get through to him. After listening to my problem for a couple minutes, he informed me that he would not be able to help me. However, he said that he would find out who I needed to contact. Sigh, fine. A couple hours later, he sent me an email letting me know I should contact a guy named Joe in DC.

So, I started calling Joe. I get through to him on the third call. After spending about 10 minutes trying to explain what I needed, Joe said, “Okay, I’m going to refer you to Marcus. I’d like him to sit down with you so that he can understand exactly what you need cause I’m not quite sure myself. But he should be able to get you taken care of. Do you know Marcus?”

To which I replied, “Yeah, I know Marcus. He sits right next to me.”

posted by Sunder @ 11:24 AM Comments: 0

It's busy

We all know how much I hate Lotus Notes. As do most of the people in my industry. ‘Cause it just sucks. Thankfully, the following incident was more comical than anything.

I was doing my daily perusal of Google News when I came across an article that I thought one cube neighbors would enjoy. I proceeded to send the link to him using the ‘Chat’ function of Notes. It is basically AIM integrated into Notes. No biggie. The little chat window pop’s up on his screen. He then said, “Hey, What’s this?”

I said, “I thought it was something you might find interesting. Just click it.” He then turned back to his machine and clicked it. He paused, staring at the screen for a second. And then he just started busting out laughing. Now, for the record, the article I sent him was not funny. I just stared at him in confusion. He just waved me over, pointed at the screen and just kept laughing. When I investigated further, I was met by the following warning popup.

What the...? Busy?

Perhaps, it went to lunch. I mean, it was almost lunchtime. Yeah, thats probably it.

posted by Sunder @ 9:28 AM Comments: 1