We'd be dead. Can't get paid if you're dead.

Mal ,'Serenity'


Natter 31 But Looks 29  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


-t - Jan 11, 2005 10:51:17 am PST #4843 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Somebody mistakenly sent out an email which went out Firmwide. Thousands of people.

And NOW dozebns of people are replying ALSO FIRMWIDE that they got the email in error. How fucking stupid do you have to be to add your "me too" to the mistake?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sorry. I've just seen this So.Many.Times.

Nilly, is it me? Sounds like me.


Wolfram - Jan 11, 2005 10:51:31 am PST #4844 of 10002
Visilurking

She called to apologize (she had the wrong area code), and I told her if she hires the guy, he owes me flowers.

It was great of you to call Allyson. And I admire this woman for calling you back to explain her error. Unfortunately most folks would have just dialed the new area code and never bothered to apologize.

Today I had to write a check for 600 bucks to a man whose unattended car my wife damaged in the parking lot. My wife called me at the time to ask what to do, and I told her to leave a note with our phone number. So when I paid the man he thanked me profusely for our honesty. I told him it would be nice if honesty was the norm rather than the exception. Now I hope the karma wheel gets me my 600 bucks back.


Susan W. - Jan 11, 2005 10:51:56 am PST #4845 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

For some reason, people keep leaving messages for random businesses on my home voice mail.

A roommate and I used to get messages for a Dr. Hayden despite the fact our message ended with, "This is NOT DR. HAYDEN'S OFFICE. PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE MESSAGES FOR DR. HAYDEN!"

If it sounded really important, someone's health at stake, we'd forward them to the doctor. If it was just someone calling for an appointment, we ignored and deleted.


Ginger - Jan 11, 2005 10:52:24 am PST #4846 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Pencil usually survives those accidents pretty well. It's the water-soluble pen inks that get you.

t As a reporter, took many notes in the rain.


sarameg - Jan 11, 2005 10:52:46 am PST #4847 of 10002

But you didn't type rm *.* in your home directory and hit return, did you? It is still currently salvagable. Not a dummy. Just damp.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 11, 2005 10:52:59 am PST #4848 of 10002
What is even happening?

What can be done to her that's as bad as what she's got to live with?
If I kill someone and feel really bad, I don't need any other punishment?
No, that's why I also said I have no problem with her being charged with something. The post was in response to someone saying they didn't know what she'd be charged with, if anything.
That's the thing. If she drove into the water with another adult who wound up dead, no one would think twice about charging her with something.
I don't think that this has anything to do with it being a child. I think it's just like, "Oh, shit, we don't have a stupidity and arrogance charge. What fits?" I have no more or less problem with her being charged with anything because it was a kid, I just think it is bound to pale in comparison. I know three people who were driving cars involved in fatal accidents. Not one of them had been drinking, or high, or anything, and none had bad driving records. They all had to be charged. The legal charges were like getting bapped with a nerf ball, compared to the lead pipe beating about the head, of knowing they'd killed someone--in two cases, someone (an adult) they loved.


aurelia - Jan 11, 2005 10:53:18 am PST #4849 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I read they're thinking of fining drivers who drove past barricades. Making them pay for the rescue effort.

It seems like every year they talk about doing this to people who get stranded on ice out in the lake.


Nutty - Jan 11, 2005 10:53:36 am PST #4850 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Somebody mistakenly sent out an email which went out Firmwide. Thousands of people.

Could be worse. My last job was still winceing from the global email flamewar that somebody started -- she sent out a personal, inflammatory reaction to Sept. 11 to the whole multinational, eleventy-hundred-subsidiary, yes-we-have-an-office-in-Singapore company. And every single reply was Reply All. And people argued back and forth for more than a week before someone in the tech office called up each one personally to tell them to shut the hell up. Before it all ended, it crashed the server. Rumor has it she got fired, but I've never been able to verify that.


brenda m - Jan 11, 2005 10:54:19 am PST #4851 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Somebody mistakenly sent out an email which went out Firmwide. Thousands of people.

And NOW dozebns of people are replying ALSO FIRMWIDE that they got the email in error. How fucking stupid do you have to be to add your "me too" to the mistake?

Morons at my former BigInternationalCompany managed to shut down our entire email system for two days doing that.


tommyrot - Jan 11, 2005 10:55:35 am PST #4852 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

In some European country, they started charging to rescue mountain climbers who climbed the mountain despite weather warnings. IIRC the average charge is $50,000.