Direct quote from a work email I just received

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

FYI Team:

There's 1,000 users listed on this excel spreadsheet.
These reps don't know that they are going to be extracted with new databases Friday 4/21/06 and could potentially call us and ask why.
At this point if we get reps complaining about long sync times. Advise them to let the comm session complete. The list provided should prove useful and weeding out those not affected by this Extract.

I will be out of the office tomorrow when we could begin to see the impact of this so please contact...


I am going to kill some motherfuckers.

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Language?

[(Anonymous)]

Which language is this in?

It certainly isn't English as we know it...

[zercool.livejournal.com]

Word. I remember those emails. "Your life is about to suck, I won't be here, tough shit."

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

I will be out of the office tomorrow when we could begin to see the impact of this so please contact...

"...me on my cell phone if any problems arise."

>:)

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

I wish.

In fact it was just the name of the other team lead. We have two; one for daytime and one for nighttime.

[jarad.livejournal.com]

If it were me, I would have just forwarded the tech support number to his mobile. Then I wouldn't have to deal with the complaints, and he gets to fix his screwup.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

Ehr.

How is it the helpdesk team lead's screwup when the client's home office decides to release a new database to a thousand field users without telling them?

[jarad.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I didn't mean the team lead. I meant whoever started a thousand-user upgrade and gave your team less than 24 hours notice. In my workplace, we normally only do support for our own products and networks. We have a few contracts to look after other people's networks. I have in the past had the legal folks cancel contracts because of said customers making vast changes to their own networks, and then leaving us to clean up the crap.

If I did what you describe to my team of support guys, I would not expect to be working there by the end of the day.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately our desk is one of our larger clients, so terminating contracts isn't an option.

[canray.livejournal.com]

"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords." "Well, unfortunately, I forgot to bring a sword." [Operative pulls out his sword]