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09-10-2008, 01:25 PM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | So I just got reprimanded at my job...
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for a typo.
Background - I had been dealing via email with a large client company's network admins, who had been experiencing a multitude of technical issues with one of our products. I had been explaining to them for a week and a half that it's actually a misconfiguration on their side and was not something I/we could fix. I was 100% right. In fact, I went out on a limb and pointed out exactly where the problem was and how to fix it...still they blamed me, blamed the product...when suddenly, I guess in an act of pure desperation, they did what I had suggested and -voila- The issue is fixed.
I was asked to email a "post-mortem" of what transpired to their supervisor.
My last sentence of that email:
"In the end, your technical team had followed an earlier suggestion from us which resolved the issue. Had they attempted the suggested fix earlier within the time frame of our troubleshooting, the content would not have been lost.
Retards,"
Yes, "retards" and not "regards"..
I inadvertantly called a pair of network admins "retards" to their supervisor causing him to write my supervisor...
I should be mad but I'm laughing too hard.
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09-10-2008, 01:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | | That is pretty funny but it's an easy typo to miss (or misinterpret). |
09-10-2008, 01:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | |  Freud would love that one. I'm laughin' too. |
09-10-2008, 01:35 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Relic for a typo.
Background - I had been dealing via email with a large client company's network admins, who had been experiencing a multitude of technical issues with one of our products. I had been explaining to them for a week and a half that it's actually a misconfiguration on their side and was not something I/we could fix. I was 100% right. In fact, I went out on a limb and pointed out exactly where the problem was and how to fix it...still they blamed me, blamed the product...when suddenly, I guess in an act of pure desperation, they did what I had suggested and -voila- The issue is fixed.
I was asked to email a "post-mortem" of what transpired to their supervisor.
My last sentence of that email:
"In the end, your technical team had followed an earlier suggestion from us which resolved the issue. Had they attempted the suggested fix earlier within the time frame of our troubleshooting, the content would not have been lost.
Retards,"
Yes, "retards" and not "regards"..
I inadvertantly called a pair of network admins "retards" to their supervisor causing him to write my supervisor...
I should be mad but I'm laughing too hard. | OMG. That's hilarious. |
09-10-2008, 01:35 PM
|  | One lab accident away from being a supervillain | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Powder Springs, Ga | | | That is simply AWESOME!
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09-10-2008, 01:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Springfield, Illinois | | | thats turrible...
but really, really funny.
I don't know how your boss kept a straight face while he reprimanded you.
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09-10-2008, 01:40 PM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | I just spit Diet Pepsi on my keyboard! |
09-10-2008, 01:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Jacksonville, Florida | | | That's. Funny.
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09-10-2008, 02:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | Haha, that is great.
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09-10-2008, 02:07 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Man thats crazy!
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09-10-2008, 02:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | That made me lol !
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09-10-2008, 02:17 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | That too funny. |
09-10-2008, 02:17 PM
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09-10-2008, 02:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | Man, that is a great story. Awesome! I hope it doesn't interfere with the job at all.
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09-10-2008, 02:29 PM
|  | *******er Emeritus(does anyone remember that? No?) | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Houston, Texas | | I lol'ed
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09-10-2008, 02:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Relic Retards," | So instead of thanking you for solving the problem, the retards forward your email and make a big deal about it to take the focus off of their incompetence.
I don't think they'll last long.
Great story, though. |
09-10-2008, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Atlanta | | | i wil make sure i dont make that mistake! lol!!
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09-10-2008, 02:40 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Bilbao España | | | Ive read it 4 times already cant stop laughing |
09-10-2008, 02:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Simply amazing. Greatest Typo ever?
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09-10-2008, 03:43 PM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | The funny part is how it's written in the smug tone of the nerdy comic book guy from the Simpson's, but it was still acceptable until you put the typo in the end, which just accentuated the smug tone even more, even though you didn't mean too. Beautiful. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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