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  • M Mendor81

    Just had a worst "user email ever" moment I'm working for a multinational company which beside others services is hosting some sort of online auction. Since i'm one of the 2 persons responsible for the mass email marketing using a non-reply email address i'm also the only person who forwards the mails from people that just reply on this address (nobody else cares) anyway no big deal sometimes. Yet i just received an empty mail with a pdf attached...hmmkay...i opened the pdf (after scanning it (you neve know) and what do i see...a HANDWRITTEN NOTE!! Scanned and converted to pdf and attached to an empty mail WTF¿? written in italian.... with a handwriting that's so horrible that i'm guess the writer is a medic...

    Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!! Dogs are man's best Friend, Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

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    Pete OHanlon
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    Mendor81 wrote:

    written in italian.... with a handwriting that's so horrible that i'm guess the writer is a medic

    I believe you've just found the missing warning that it wasn't safe to move into L'Aquila.

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    • M Mendor81

      it seems so, after decryption of the message it seems that the "customer" is complaining that he does not know how our auction website works.....jesus h christ

      Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!! Dogs are man's best Friend, Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

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      OriginalGriff
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      Mendor81 wrote:

      Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

      I take you have cats then? Ours doesn't kill everything. He hasn't brought home an elephant, a cow or a pterodactyl yet, but he has been seen eyeing up a crane, a swan and a low flying Eurofighter on a training exercise... :doh:

      Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        Mendor81 wrote:

        Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

        I take you have cats then? Ours doesn't kill everything. He hasn't brought home an elephant, a cow or a pterodactyl yet, but he has been seen eyeing up a crane, a swan and a low flying Eurofighter on a training exercise... :doh:

        Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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        Bergholt Stuttley Johnson
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        oops looks like the cat posted this one

        You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          Mendor81 wrote:

          Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

          I take you have cats then? Ours doesn't kill everything. He hasn't brought home an elephant, a cow or a pterodactyl yet, but he has been seen eyeing up a crane, a swan and a low flying Eurofighter on a training exercise... :doh:

          Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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          Mendor81
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          Yes i do and yep i had some "presents" brought home in the middle of the night. worst case was waking up in the middle of the night by the sound of "nom nomnomnom" my cat eating the face of a rabbit almost twice it's size....changed her cat food the next morning..

          Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!! Dogs are man's best Friend, Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            Mendor81 wrote:

            Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

            I take you have cats then? Ours doesn't kill everything. He hasn't brought home an elephant, a cow or a pterodactyl yet, but he has been seen eyeing up a crane, a swan and a low flying Eurofighter on a training exercise... :doh:

            Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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            Nagy Vilmos
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            I can't remember where it came from, but recently I read that cats, even well fed and spoilt little SFB's - kill around 4 creatures a week. Yup, your pussy is taking a life more than every other day.


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            • M Mendor81

              Just had a worst "user email ever" moment I'm working for a multinational company which beside others services is hosting some sort of online auction. Since i'm one of the 2 persons responsible for the mass email marketing using a non-reply email address i'm also the only person who forwards the mails from people that just reply on this address (nobody else cares) anyway no big deal sometimes. Yet i just received an empty mail with a pdf attached...hmmkay...i opened the pdf (after scanning it (you neve know) and what do i see...a HANDWRITTEN NOTE!! Scanned and converted to pdf and attached to an empty mail WTF¿? written in italian.... with a handwriting that's so horrible that i'm guess the writer is a medic...

              Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!! Dogs are man's best Friend, Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

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              wizardzz
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              It probably says, "Hand me my laptop."

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              • M Mendor81

                Just had a worst "user email ever" moment I'm working for a multinational company which beside others services is hosting some sort of online auction. Since i'm one of the 2 persons responsible for the mass email marketing using a non-reply email address i'm also the only person who forwards the mails from people that just reply on this address (nobody else cares) anyway no big deal sometimes. Yet i just received an empty mail with a pdf attached...hmmkay...i opened the pdf (after scanning it (you neve know) and what do i see...a HANDWRITTEN NOTE!! Scanned and converted to pdf and attached to an empty mail WTF¿? written in italian.... with a handwriting that's so horrible that i'm guess the writer is a medic...

                Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!! Dogs are man's best Friend, Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

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                BobJanova
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                That really sounds like one for The Daily WTF.

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                • M Mendor81

                  Just had a worst "user email ever" moment I'm working for a multinational company which beside others services is hosting some sort of online auction. Since i'm one of the 2 persons responsible for the mass email marketing using a non-reply email address i'm also the only person who forwards the mails from people that just reply on this address (nobody else cares) anyway no big deal sometimes. Yet i just received an empty mail with a pdf attached...hmmkay...i opened the pdf (after scanning it (you neve know) and what do i see...a HANDWRITTEN NOTE!! Scanned and converted to pdf and attached to an empty mail WTF¿? written in italian.... with a handwriting that's so horrible that i'm guess the writer is a medic...

                  Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!! Dogs are man's best Friend, Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

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                  Chris Meech
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                  I wonder if the user printed a blank document from Word first in order to write on it. :)

                  Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]

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                  • W wizardzz

                    It probably says, "Hand me my laptop."

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                    Richard Deeming
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                    Or possibly some variation of "vi prego di inviarmi i codici". :-D


                    "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

                    "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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                    • M Mendor81

                      Just had a worst "user email ever" moment I'm working for a multinational company which beside others services is hosting some sort of online auction. Since i'm one of the 2 persons responsible for the mass email marketing using a non-reply email address i'm also the only person who forwards the mails from people that just reply on this address (nobody else cares) anyway no big deal sometimes. Yet i just received an empty mail with a pdf attached...hmmkay...i opened the pdf (after scanning it (you neve know) and what do i see...a HANDWRITTEN NOTE!! Scanned and converted to pdf and attached to an empty mail WTF¿? written in italian.... with a handwriting that's so horrible that i'm guess the writer is a medic...

                      Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!! Dogs are man's best Friend, Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

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                      Kschuler
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                      Whilst troubleshooting, I once asked a user for a screen shot. They sent me a jpg that contained a picture they'd obviously taken with a camera of their computer screen. Good times.

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                      • M Mendor81

                        Just had a worst "user email ever" moment I'm working for a multinational company which beside others services is hosting some sort of online auction. Since i'm one of the 2 persons responsible for the mass email marketing using a non-reply email address i'm also the only person who forwards the mails from people that just reply on this address (nobody else cares) anyway no big deal sometimes. Yet i just received an empty mail with a pdf attached...hmmkay...i opened the pdf (after scanning it (you neve know) and what do i see...a HANDWRITTEN NOTE!! Scanned and converted to pdf and attached to an empty mail WTF¿? written in italian.... with a handwriting that's so horrible that i'm guess the writer is a medic...

                        Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!! Dogs are man's best Friend, Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

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                        That is what I would do if my keyboard would not work anymore. Anything else than writing the note can be done using the mouse ( writing with the virtual keyboard too, but the note solution is faster).

                        ~RaGE();

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                          I wonder if the user printed a blank document from Word first in order to write on it. :)

                          Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]

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                          wizardzz
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                          Well how else you gonna save it?

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                          • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                            Or possibly some variation of "vi prego di inviarmi i codici". :-D


                            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                            urgentezz

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                            • K Kschuler

                              Whilst troubleshooting, I once asked a user for a screen shot. They sent me a jpg that contained a picture they'd obviously taken with a camera of their computer screen. Good times.

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                              :thumbsup: :doh:

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                                Well how else you gonna save it?

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                                Chris Meech
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                                In fact, I keep a document in My Documents folder called just that, 'Blank Document.doc'. What's really odd though is after I open and print it, when I try to close it, I'm prompted to save changes? Go figure, eh. :)

                                Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]

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                                • M Mendor81

                                  it seems so, after decryption of the message it seems that the "customer" is complaining that he does not know how our auction website works.....jesus h christ

                                  Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!! Dogs are man's best Friend, Cats are man's adorable little serial killer

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                                  lewax00
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                                  Mendor81 wrote:

                                  he does not know how our auction website works

                                  It sounds like his problem is a little more fundamental than just a single website...

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                                  • C Chris Meech

                                    I wonder if the user printed a blank document from Word first in order to write on it. :)

                                    Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]

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                                    W Balboos GHB
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                                    Chris Meech wrote:

                                    I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]

                                    Your insight on this matter is so appealing that I won't hold the above against you. +5

                                    "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                    "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert

                                    "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                                      Chris Meech wrote:

                                      I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]

                                      Your insight on this matter is so appealing that I won't hold the above against you. +5

                                      "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                      "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert

                                      "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                                      Chris Meech
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                                      Actually, I'm insight right now having a beer. Care to join me? :)

                                      Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]

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                                        Actually, I'm insight right now having a beer. Care to join me? :)

                                        Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]

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                                        W Balboos GHB
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                                        If you're buying.

                                        do {
                                        In case I can't get up north in time, and the beer is in danger of warming, please drink extra for me.
                                        } while(stillAbleToStand);

                                        "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                        "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert

                                        "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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