Starting A New Year

Posted by The Skipper       on 01/02/2007 at 01:04 AM   

1. Ha, that’s funny! Once upon a time I worked at AT&T. There was a fellow there who didn’t like the lunch buffet at one of the local eateries. So he sent an email telling everyone how bad the food was and to avoid the place. Except, you see, this was AT&T. When you hit Send All, the email goes to about 120,000 people. Ahem! To make it even more embarassing, when this was brought to his attention he sent an apology ... to those same 120,000 people! I’m sure his picture went up on the LAN administrator’s wall of heroes, just as soon as the mail server stopped smoking.

   Be real careful with the Reply All and Send All buttons! That “cuss em out on the phone” is decent advice too. No paper trail! But lots of people have speaker phones and recording ability. Better to do it in person. That way you only risk a black eye instead of your career.

   Posted by Drew458       01/02/2007  at  09:36 AM  



2. A good rule of thumb is to never say anything in an email that you wouldn’t want seen on the front page of a major newspaper.  It is far too easy to hit the ‘forward’ button and what you said in your world now has spread to other worlds.  Also, unless you are a wordsmith, most people have difficulty in properly gauging your emotional level from printed words and what you type could, be misconstrued and get you into a world of hurts.  Got something serious to discuss?  Call them on a phone or better yet visit them in person.

   Posted by Kirk       01/02/2007  at  09:39 AM  



3. I agree with Drew and Kirk.

   Years ago, I used to work at a magazine.  One day, our editorial staff received an email from a company wanting to arrange a pr demo of their product with our editors.  Our editorial/sales assistant was also one of the recipients of the email, and she did not want to attend that demo.  So she decided to forward a reply to another one of the editors saying that she would rather eat worms than be at that meeting.  But unfortunately, she hit reply all by mistake.  To make things worse, this company was a major advertiser with our other magazines.  So there was no way that we were going to get any advertising business out of them for our publication after this gaffe.  And to top it off, the company sent our editorial assistant a box of gummy worm candies with a note saying that they hoped she wouldn’t have to eat real worms.

   Posted by lisar915       01/02/2007  at  12:53 PM  



4. HAPPY NEW YEARS skipper, i also,sadly,belong to the 4 ex-wives club.....any of yours look or act like this??
   [could not post pic of woman w/her tit in a wringer] will mail it to you.
   still trying to get friends/family to stop forwarding a fwrd. of a fwrd. of a fwrd.!!!!!!
   it’s untelling where my email address winds up [along w/everyone elses!!!]
   keep fighting the good fight skip, we need and love ya!
   and so i remain......... randy in cincy-------rancino!

   [got a sweater for xmas!  sigh.....i wanted a screamer or moaner!!] ;-Þ ®

   Posted by Rancino       01/02/2007  at  06:23 PM