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the C6 is the sized for an A6

DL is completely diff proportions, obviously

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

YOU CAN'T SPELL BASIC ENGLISH WORDS.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

We have a book with columns he has drawn in with a ruler and which we have to tick every time we use an envelope so he can assign the 4p or whatever to our budget code. The envelopes in the cupboard are C4, C5 and DL but he has written A4, A5 and A6 in the book. In very bad handwriting, too.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

this guy is not a moron but he talks v low and eats w/ a really clicky jaw shut up!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

DL also called E6/5 I believe?

― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Today i've been called a rebel and an anarchist.

Is it any fucking wonder i'm going part time?

― anemotionalfish (pisces), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd be proud to be called a rebel and an anarchist.

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

You are a rebel and an anarchist sir!

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

(Puffs out chest proudly, then notices man-boobs and hunches over again.)

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Woman, 40, narrow hips, "ballet" pumps, assiduously groomed hair, retrieving her skinny latte and chatting with a buddy:

"Did you see that with Britney? It looks like she had a real... knockdown! I mean, not that I care."

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 19 February 2007 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

my co-worker just made a lunch which smells like he was warming up garbage in the microwave. I want to kill him.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

900 "test" emails GAAAAAAAAHHH IT WORKS ALREADY

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a colleague who is a director of something important who I suspect is barely functionally literate. Like, she's not in danger of poisoning her family because she can't read the box of Borax or anything, but her emails are 1) often unpunctuated, 2) contain multiple misspellings and wrong homonyms, and c) reveal that she didn't read or understand your previous query, because she has answered some question that you didn't even ask, and that's IF you can tell what her sentence fragments mean at all.

It might sound like I'm being picky/catty but a bunch of us have acted on her information only to find that it was the wrong thing to do and it's going to cost anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars to fix BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T READ WHAT WE ASKED HER and/or ANSWER IN A COMPREHENSIBLE WAY. And no one will ever hold her accountable.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

the director of one our major uni services is notorious for similar, incomprehensible emails. Recently he emailed my co-worker the following: "Chris....I need your email."

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I work at a centre co-ordinating counselling and stress management services. Someone phoned in, evidently very distressed, I passed them onto a counsellor. Counsellor asked them if they felt they were suicidal or likely to do themselves harm, and would they be safe until a proper referral could be made. Fellow temp found this hilarious, giggling behind her hand to me and asking "what sort of question is that to ask someone?" I'm guessing she's not really cut out for this environment. I don't let her answer the phone.

― i hate temping (ailsa_xx), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god Laurel, we work with the same person! Except this person is my boss thingy!

I don't know how many emails I have gotten with just a MS Outlook calendar file in them. That's it. No text, usually no subject line... And I CAN'T OPEN THOSE FUCKING FILES AND I HAVE REPEATEDLY ASKED FOR A TEXT EQUIVALENT OF WHAT THE EMAIL IS ABOUT BUT IT NEVER HAPPENS

So I ignore those emails now.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, Sam, that's exactly the kind of thing. Last time it happened, she fucked someone over by responding "yes" when the correct answer was "no". It'd be one thing to get confused and ask someone to clarify if you have a question, but yes/no questions are not that difficult. Especially ones that go "Did task X get done? If not, we'll need to do it now, so please let us know." Three weeks later no one has done task X and it is now a) a job for my department because it was left so late, and b) A FREAKING FUCK-ALL RUSH, HOLY SHIT GET THIS READY ON TIME!!!!!1!2212!!.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

My boss/client and I both declined to chase down an advertiser who is an illiterate moran, even though he said he wanted to run a 2-page full-color spread in the issue we just finished. Probably not very good business sense, but he is such a mizzerble tool to deal with.

― Bellicose Veins (Rock Hardy), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

um laurel's director is my boss. is there just something about upper management that makes them incapable of writing a complete sentence and/or reading e-mails properly?

― maunders (maunders), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

My boss takes on too much crap, and so he takes everyone he bumps into at their word that things are going how they should be - when he often has no idea what is actually going on. Which results in a lot of "yes yes sure thats all on track" and dismissive "dont worry about it" gestures. Only for me to find 4 weeks later, as the most recent example, that we're entirely out of the internet hardware we sell as our core fucking business. The same hardware I've been saying for over six weeks we need new stock of (it has to ship from the US and takes ages) and been dismissed with "let management handle it".

Morons.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah the gems of Becky the waitress...

"I've got a headache"
"You're probably a bit dehydrated, have you had any fluids?"
"What are fluids?"

"Give us a couple of quid out of the till, Becks."
"How much is a couple?"

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

We did have one branch manager who had the "illiterate emails" problem described. Any emails he sent to my boss complaining about the service we gave him, my boss wouldn't even bother to read - he'd pass them to me for translation into legible English first.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah well, at least you guys have written proof of stupidity to help their superiors find out where all bodies are buried.

Also for bloody ages there was this upper management thing where email was for underlings, eg 'I have minions to do that for me' at least in Britain.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Well it's typing, innit.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

bloke here has just changed the toner catridge in the printer. the old cartridge is plonked on top of the new box on the floor about 3 feet away (rather than being put somewhere tidy), he didn't tear off the tear-off strip that stops all the toner falling out during transit and then put (unrecyclable) tear off strip in the recycling bin. still at least he got his printing done (multiple sheets, single sided, diagrams taking up the top third of each). sigh.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"I've got a headache"
"You're probably a bit dehydrated, have you had any fluids?"
"What are fluids?"
LOL

― Lingbert (Lingbert), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

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