Dear Coworkers (Or How Not To Be a Dumb S*$&)

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

The stupidity of the customer is not unknown. We all have had our phone headset in the lovers embrace, coddled it, smiled at it, and then clenched our fist around it's flimsy body and flung it from us as though it were a grenade. A bomb of pure idiocy that threatened to infect us with whatever lunacy gripped those on the other end. We've been there. I'm not here to write about that. I'm here to write about something closer, harder to spot, impossible to stop, and twice as annoying as the customer will ever be. The boneheaded idiocy of our coworkers.

Cut for strong language, mature subject matter, and basically other things that makes your nosy, judgemental, ultra-conservative, hypocritically-religious, backstabbing, promotion-hungry, usually-fat coworkers turn you in to HR.

( Todays Chapter: Boobs )

I'd feel worse if the guy weren't a moron. Either way, behavior like that just makes me want to smack someone upside the head and go "What the funky fresh rhymes are you doing, idiot!?"

Incredible Incredimail in Israel

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

I'm confused as to what this comment had to do today with troubleshooting AVG blocking Incredimail.

First, to start off the issue, the customer did not want to cooperate with shutting down her AVG to figure out if it was blocking the email program, Incredimail and said "It's worked PERFECTLY until now. I'm NOT shutting that down!"

Then when I asked which program she was not receiving email on (webmail or an email program), she stated to me:

"I use ONLY Incredimail which is an Israeli company."

"So?" [/me cracking gum and saying that in a Valley Girl voice] "What does the Israeli company comment have to do with the fact that you are not getting your emails?"