What is it that drives you really crazy?
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Hi OK, according to a thread from the soapbox (Megans sniffing thread[^]) I'm wondering what your co-workers are doing to drive you to insanity....? A while ago I had a co-worker who liked apples, and every morning he was eating his apple at breakfast time...with an open mouth! I could have freaked out with that, .... I was ..... aaarrrrrrghhhhhh.....:sigh: OK OK, it was nerving.... So what is it that does you really drive up and down the wall?? (sniffing, coughing, breathing, eating...)
Olli "Ooooooh, they have the internet on computers now!"
Homer Simpson
:beer: + :java: = NULL :=> X|At my last place of employment, I was sole technical support for 100 users on 50 dumb terminals (and PCs running emulators) connected to a single PC server. Once in a while something went wrong with the system, and in a retail environment that causes immediate panic. Every time a failure occurred I was interrupted by 50 individual calls telling me that the system was broke, or asking when it would be restored, all at a time when I was least able to take the call, locked in the server room where the phone doesn't work, trying to resolve the problem. I tried for years to educate the idiots - if your terminal is broke, but everyone else's seems to be okay, call me. If yours is broke, and so is every other terminal you can see, call your manager and let him call me. No luck, even the managers were too stupid to figure it out, and I got ragged on by my boss for taking so long to resolve the troubles. Morons, all of them! "Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
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Daniel Wilson wrote: People who drink the last of the coffee without making a new pot and those who leave just a few ml of coffee in the pot That is my all time greatest complaint about coworkers in every office, and every industry I've worked in. If you don't know how to make coffee, you have no business drinking it. If you refuse to make coffee for me, you have no right to drink the coffee I made. If you're too busy to make coffee, you certainly don't have time consume it. If you're too damned important to make coffee, the company can't afford to allow you to risk the known and suspected health hazards of coffee. :mad: Inconsiderate, self-centered, useless a&*^%les!:mad::mad::mad: "Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs."Roger Wright wrote: If you don't know how to make coffee, you have no business drinking it. If you refuse to make coffee for me, you have no right to drink the coffee I made. If you're too busy to make coffee, you certainly don't have time consume it. If you're too damned important to make coffee, the company can't afford to allow you to risk the known and suspected health hazards of coffee. Great rules Roger! I think I'll get these blown up to poster size and stick it on the wall I am facing so everyone can see. TO ALL YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! :laugh::laugh: Live to ride. Ride to live.
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: Fortunately, none of my co-workers are like that Hmmm, sounds like a good family at work....
Olli "Ooooooh, they have the internet on computers now!"
Homer Simpson
:beer: + :java: = NULL :=> X|They're a good bunch. The only problem I really have is that as the only girl on my team (and in fact, on my floor) I'm rather isolated and at times it really upsets me. That's not the guys' fault though - they can't help being male! Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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HTML email! If you need pretty pictures, colours and fonts to say what you want to say then you should be using different words not different formatting.
I disagree. Formatting adds emphasis which draws attention to the important parts of the message. The problem is that some companies abuse the technology by sending HTML emails linked to images on their site etc. (a royal pain for dial-up users) - it isn't with the formatting itself. Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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We can do better than that! ;) A pair of 1kW base cabs and your entire collection of Motorhead CDs in an autochanger are the ultimate solution... For added comic relief, mix in one Monty Python CD for every 5 Motothead CDs, and press the shuffle button. ;P Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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It took me months to get him a job at your company and out of mine! Our productivity skyrocketed once he was gone - thanks for hiring him!:-D "Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything,
but you still can't help but smile when you see one
tumble down the stairs."Is that the guy who also used to swear loudly at every inanimate object or company that frustrated him? If so, we sent him to you. ;P Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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I disagree. External corporate e-mail should be (for initial communications or when dealing with unnameds only) branded as if it was headed letter paper. Image is everything on first impressions. Newsletters, announcements, etc, also need to carry the company brand. And for the text, yes, straightforward black text may fine in most cases, but formatting such as bold, code, etc are highly useful depending on the content.
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
"I live very much in the real world, it's just not the same world shared by most other people"
But if all they send is HTML then the recipient may well see nothing if they strip unsafe emails or gibberish if they don't want to open any HTML. Sending multipart email so there is a clear text safe copy is a step in the right direction but still leaves the recipient downloading huge chunks of rubbish that isn't required. Formatting for emphasis is safe only as long as you know the exact situation where a document will be read. You may well want to emphasise this sentence by making it red with parts in italic. What the recipient may see is. 'You may well want to emphasise this sentence by making it red with parts in italic'. If they quote it the emphasis is lost and the entire emphasised section may be invisible on a printed copy. Just a couple of reasons why HTML email is a bad idea.
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I disagree. Formatting adds emphasis which draws attention to the important parts of the message. The problem is that some companies abuse the technology by sending HTML emails linked to images on their site etc. (a royal pain for dial-up users) - it isn't with the formatting itself. Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
It's exactly that sort of abuse (links back to sites) which is why spammers love HTML email and probably why HTML in email is one of the biggest indicators of spam (looking at an analysis of my own company's email HTML formatting is in fact a more reliable indicator of spam than sexually related terms in the content!).