ROFLMAO

[phaedra-13.livejournal.com]

HD: "Please send an e-mail to new.servicedesk@[company].com and make sure you put [software name] in the subject line; you'll get a service ticket number within 30 seconds."

User: "OK, that's newdotservicedesk@[company].com, right?"

HD: "No, that's new.servicedesk...use a period there."

User: "Huh?"

What's truly amusing is that they always get the second "dot" correct...why does the first one elude them so?

But when it comes to e-mailing a human being within the company, they get all the dots right...I've never seen ANYONE try to send an e-mail to [first]dot[last]@[company].com.

**headdesk**

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[tnjade.livejournal.com]

I had a cow-orker who input emails in our database as:

[firstname]unerscore[lastname]@[company].com

Not only was the word "underscore" even IN the email address, she spelled it wrong!

When it was pointed out to her, it took about 10 minutes for her to understand (unerstand?) why this was wrong.

[phaedra-13.livejournal.com]

That's when I want to tell them, "slowly back AWAY from the computer..." :)

[tnjade.livejournal.com]

She didn't last too long in tech support.

[etceterate.livejournal.com]

I once had a call from someone whose emails were bouncing, and it turned out he'd actually put the word 'at' in the middle...

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

in the good old days I had a friend who used the alias Dot.


his email at that time was

dot@dotcom.com