7/2/09

I am laughing my ass off! They just rolled out some new Tiny and Flaccid Office Communicator software here at the railroad. Guess what, there’s a glitch! I have, in the last twenty minutes, received forty e-mails about it. No, I am not the administrator or tech support for this software. Neither are the forty people who sent these e-mails. We, and I'm assuming it is everyone who has logged into the system and has this new software loaded, received an e-mail from some dude who was having trouble logging in. Apparently, the “Tech Services” e-mail box sends the message out to everyone! Oh look, there are six new messages… no, make that fourteen new messages about it in my inbox. I am about to hurt myself, I'm laughing so hard. And there’s a dozen more! Oh this is way too good! Those dumbasses at Tiny and Flaccid are going to shut the fucking railroad down with their incompetence. I was planning to cut out of here early but not now. I want to see how many more of these I get. Oop, there’s twenty-two more! People are starting to get pissed off too. Damn but this has to be the highlight of my week. We’re at eighty-eight e-mails and it hasn’t been an hour. I wonder if we’ll break one hundred. There’s ninety, ten more to go. Ninety two, come on folks, we can do it! Ninety five! Woo hoo! We broke a hunski! And it still hasn’t quite been an hour. Ok, the ratio of “Why am I getting this?” to “Please stop using ‘Reply All’” is beginning to turn. Although, having said that, it does not appear to be the case. There are still about ten “WAIGT” to each “PSURA” e-mails. I may pee my pants if this goes on much longer. The first e-mail came to me at 1514 h, now it is 1610 h and I've deleted 116 e-mails about it. And at one hour, we have 127 e-mails on the subject. Oh but the inbox is going to be full on Monday. And there’s twenty more! C’mon people, three more and we’ve got a buck and a half! You can do it! The wags are beginning to reply too. It is so funny I've lost count. And they just keep rolling in. Oh, and there are people who request a “read confirmation” when they send theirs! I'm confirming every one of those I get too! Yeah, not part of the solution but ever so glad to be part of the problem! I just got one from St. Paul! I'm assuming that’s Minnesota and not the apostle. They just keep coming! I really wish I'd replied at the beginning with my snarky comment, “What? There is a glitch in a Microsoft program? I find that hard to believe?” Now it would just be beating a dead horse. There’s another half dozen on top of the fifty or so I didn’t mention since the last count. I just did a count in my “deleted messages” file. Would you believe we’re at 214 e-mails in an hour and a half? I'm going to give it until 1700 h and then I'm calling it a weekend. Since that is fifteen minutes away, and the e-mails seem to have slowed, I guess I'll shut this computer down as well. I'll try to give y'all a count of all the e-mails on Monday, assuming the whole system doesn’t crash! Toodles.