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lukemillar 16-08-06 03:44 PM

Work faux pas
 
This guy at work just posted this to one of our main newsgroups instead of replying to his mate by mistake! Made me laugh especially the bit towards the end!

Quote:

Hey good to hear from you man,

London is good, damn expensive though, maybe not as expensive as Dublin but there's just so much stuff to do which is great but my god the amount of money I've burnt through in the last 2 months, thank god for my generous parents and my Dad's savy business sense. No sl*tty English girls since last talking to you. I did end up getting a number of one girl but I was so drunk at the time I can't remember anything about it. She actually wanted to meet me again on her last day in London but long story short I couldn't meet her.
What's the plan for Electric Picnic? I'm flying in on Thursday night so I was thinking we head off on Friday. All in Fergal's car? There's some good stuff on Friday so we should head early especially to get a reasonably good site for our tents and don't forget the DRINK! I've become known as the stereotypical Irish drunk at work, flying the flag for our nation.

Work is going well in that I do nothing all day. I swear to god, I started and I did all the runner stuff and I wasn't that busy but now they've employed two more runners who do everything I used to do, its not boring though since I can chat to the artists and directors, mess with tools and youtube. So how's Dol by the way? That Dan and Doll stuff is great stuff you should definitely keep it up.
I'd better get back to youtube,

Take it anyway you can get it,"
He has since been made to make everyone on his floor (around 100 people) a cup of tea, seeing as he doesn't have that much to do at the moment :lol:

jonboy 16-08-06 03:46 PM

Oh dear :lol: .


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Spiderman 16-08-06 03:55 PM

pmsl.
Hope the bosses either never see it or they have a great sense of humour.

Stu 16-08-06 03:56 PM

he's probably lucky still to have a job - given that he's got nothing to do. I'm very busy 8-[

Ceri JC 16-08-06 04:44 PM

Quality. :lol:
A few years ago a colleague messed up a message that he meant to sent to a mate at another desk. It was a simple and succinct "F*** off!". Unfortunately due to the way the server he was on at the time was set up, not only did it send the message to the named person, but also all of our clients who were hosted on the machine.

One of the clients actually rang up saying, "The ASP Server just told us to **** off." It was hard not to laugh...

philipMac 16-08-06 04:52 PM

Christ.
He is right about one thing though. Dublin is retardedly expensive. Completely, unfeasabley, stupidly expensive. I dont know how anyone lives there.

If you want to spend 8 Euro on a bleeding cup of coffee, go to a country where they at least have hot chicks knocking about. Like Norway. Or Denmark.

Actually, its probably more expensive than Copenhagen. It scares the crap out of me, and I have to go back at some point.

Oh yeah, he is a south sider dub, right? Emm. I bet he is from Dalkey/Killiney. (D4 would be the next guess)

DoubleD 16-08-06 07:34 PM

:oops: ooops :oops: ... wonder how long he will keep his job?

Red ones 16-08-06 07:45 PM

He will probably next fall for the "Reply to All" mistake.

I did! Reviewing some print copy, replied "yea, you're right. I thought it looked f***ing sh**e too"


No comment from the submitter for 2 days, then out of the blue a revised copy. I replied., "Love it! Just what I had in mind." (I actually thought it was also f***ing sh**e, but didn't think I could object again)

Skip 16-08-06 08:09 PM

Quality! :lol: :lol:

Top marks on him keeping his job for the sake of a few cups of tea - lucky boy! :smt103

lukemillar 16-08-06 09:25 PM

I very much doubt he will lose his job! At work, there are no real managers (in the traditonal sense) or the usual corporate bumflufferies. Everyone saw the funny side, though I'm sure someone will make sure he is a little busier from now on!

Sid Squid 17-08-06 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by philipMac
He is right about one thing though. Dublin is retardedly expensive. Completely, unfeasabley, stupidly expensive. I dont know how anyone lives there.

True, how things have changed huh?

philipMac 17-08-06 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Sid Squid
Quote:

Originally Posted by philipMac
He is right about one thing though. Dublin is retardedly expensive. Completely, unfeasabley, stupidly expensive. I dont know how anyone lives there.

True, how things have changed huh?

I know. Can anyone please explain the economics of what's going on there at the moment.
Everyone is driving about in Bmers and Mercs, houses prices are off the radar, but wages are still **** poor, How does that work? Where is all this money? Who owns it? Presumabley the people who bought gaffs prior to everything going completely apeshizt. I suppose.

The whole thing is mental as far as I am concerned.

I am working in downtown Manhattan. Cavorting about the place with *****s that own yaughts and are Bloomberg's mate, Robin Williams just strolled through the park when I was having a bit of a rest, and I am worrying about my chances of being able to afford to move back to Dublin. DUBLIN :shock:. When I grew up there, there were, NO jobs, TONS of junkies, the north was getting blown up to bits, Haughey was in charge and being a complete and utter bollix, and things showed no chance of ever being any differant.

And then they were.

Boy, were they differant.
Sorry. Rant over.

Baph 17-08-06 08:17 AM

He was lucky that everyone saw the funny side, and there were no managers/customers involved.

Similar story in our office, not long ago, one of the guys had a leaving party, and there were a most of the suport dept, a handful of developers, a couple of people from projects etc etc. One guy decided that he'd tell one of the developers that he can't believe he gets paid for surfing the internet & playing games. He also said that he just keeps things in the background on the screen so he can change the look of the screen every so often for our boss that practically sits looking over his shoulder, and whenever he's asked anything, he "says something random that sounds about right."

He turned around, and yup, you've guessed it, his boss was stood right behind him listening to every word. Luckily, the boss is the kind of guy that won't do anything without proof, but this guy was definately being very closely monitored over the next few weeks!

I think this is the reason that (before this night out) our boss made it clear, privately, that I was more capable of the job than my mate, and should the department expand, I was in line for promotion, even though he's been with the company longer (and therefore should have more experience).

Couerdelion 17-08-06 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by philipMac
Christ.
He is right about one thing though. Dublin is retardedly expensive. Completely, unfeasabley, stupidly expensive. I dont know how anyone lives there.

If you want to spend 8 Euro on a bleeding cup of coffee, go to a country where they at least have hot chicks knocking about. Like Norway. Or Denmark.

Actually, its probably more expensive than Copenhagen. It scares the crap out of me, and I have to go back at some point.

Oh yeah, he is a south sider dub, right? Emm. I bet he is from Dalkey/Killiney. (D4 would be the next guess)

Can't be posh south side as their is no "oh my Gods" in his message :lol:

Dublin is well expensive though, but not quite €8 for a coffee. €2.95 for a large latte from o'briens. €2.60 for a fecking muffin though :shock:

Couerdelion 17-08-06 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by philipMac
Quote:

Originally Posted by Sid Squid
Quote:

Originally Posted by philipMac
He is right about one thing though. Dublin is retardedly expensive. Completely, unfeasabley, stupidly expensive. I dont know how anyone lives there.

True, how things have changed huh?

I know. Can anyone please explain the economics of what's going on there at the moment.
Everyone is driving about in Bmers and Mercs, houses prices are off the radar, but wages are still p*ss poor, How does that work? Where is all this money? Who owns it? Presumabley the people who bought gaffs prior to everything going completely apeshizt. I suppose.

The whole thing is mental as far as I am concerned.

I am working in downtown Manhattan. Cavorting about the place with *****s that own yaughts and are Bloomberg's mate, Robin Williams just strolled through the park when I was having a bit of a rest, and I am worrying about my chances of being able to afford to move back to Dublin. DUBLIN :shock:. When I grew up there, there were, NO jobs, TONS of junkies, the north was getting blown up to bits, Haughey was in charge and being a complete and utter bollix, and things showed no chance of ever being any differant.

And then they were.

Boy, were they differant.
Sorry. Rant over.

I live in Dublin. I'm looking at houses. Cheapest I can find for a 2 bedroom is about £350,000. That's Northside in an okish area.

It's more expensive than London but there is no London weighting onto wages.

There are still the junkies. I look out onto the quays and can see them dealing everyday. The skangers are in their own little world though so it's no hassle. I would have thought they woud have cleaned it up though. I'm only a couple of hundred yards from O'connel street. Not great for tourism.

Suppose If I hated it that much I'd have gone back to Leeds.

Warthog 17-08-06 09:05 AM

lol, exactly the same thing just happened with my friend Jane* yesterday! We were organising a night out this friday in London with a bunch of guys when she hit "reply all" by mistake and sent the following to everyone including Matt* :lol:

"My cunning plan as ever is to free up a bed somehow - ideally by
persuading Matt to share mine so you can have his, but think he's
finally realised quite how evil I am and is refusing!!"

She is now deeply mortified about tomorrow night hahaha



*Names changed to protect identity


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