For some reason I feel like I need to recount the number of ways a co-worker of mine tried to track me down while I was sitting at my desk. It’s been over a month or so — lemme see if I get it right.<\/p>\n
I was sitting at my desk, working, trying to focus and not be boggled by tons of emails, calls, IMs, etc. The task at hand: get a piece of our software product up and running. My phone rings – I can see that it is a call from the Springfield office. I figure, “this can wait.” I know who’s calling. I’ll call back later.<\/p>\n
In the span of roughly 5 mere minutes, this person tries to contact me the following ways:<\/p>\n
– via an email message from him
\n – via an instant message from him
\n – through our office administrative assistant, who comes to my door and asks, “Should I just tell him you’ll call him back”?
\n – through the project manager at the customer site, who leaves me a voice message AND sends me an email
\n – through a fellow worker, who comes to my office and says “he instant messaged me to ask if you were around.”
\n – through ANOTHER fellow worker, who comes to my office and says “he instant messaged me to ask if you were around.”<\/p>\n
To top it off? The reason he was trying to get in touch with me was to ask if I was working on what I had already been working on at the time of the first contact attempt: getting that piece of our software product up and running. It was both infuriating and extremely funny.<\/p>\n
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A quick quote from a former employee: “My son says he wants to inject parasites into Satan’s testicles.”<\/p>\n
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One of the best typos in a company email EVER:<\/p>\n
Instead of:<\/p>\n
“Sorry about the inconvenience.”<\/p>\n
We got:<\/p>\n
“Sorry about the incontinence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For some reason I feel like I need to recount the number of ways a co-worker of mine tried to track me down while I was sitting at my desk. It’s been over a month or so — lemme see … Continue reading