Funny overheard conversations in work

emz118

"Everyone's looking at me, I don't like it!"
"Put your trousers on and stop dancing on the chair and nobody will look at you!"

Heard from my classroom last week... a 7 and 6 year old!!!

I often finish a conversation and think "Only in my job"

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

FatVonD wrote: »

Most company emails in large organisations are specific to and installed on a particular computer and can't be opened on another.

They could of course (provided the job entailed everybody being connected to the internet) have emailed from a personal account on someone else's computer so long as they didn't mind emailing the IT department from sugartlts69@hotmail :rotfl:

Just checked with a couple of mates. One runs an entire system for a large company, one runs Exchange for a multinational, with accounts running into the tens of thousands of users.

I hope they've stopped laughing by now at the thought that an email account is only accessible from one terminal in the world.

Dirk_Gently_2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Just checked with a couple of mates. One runs an entire system for a large company, one runs Exchange for a multinational, with accounts running into the tens of thousands of users.

I hope they've stopped laughing by now at the thought that an email account is only accessible from one terminal in the world.

If it's a corporate email system, and the organisation doesn't use roaming profiles then it's quite true. Admittedly, the majority don't, but there certainly are circumstances where this *could be* the case.

jm2926

Dirk_Gently wrote: »

If it's a corporate email system, and the organisation doesn't use roaming profiles then it's quite true. Admittedly, the majority don't, but there certainly are circumstances where this *could be* the case.

In any case, the screenshot isn't going to be emailed from anywhere unless someone takes a photo of it as you can't screenshot a bluescreen, so may as well email from the phone used to take the photo. Folk think IT are daft asking these questions, but error screens can contain important information.

Any

If I was asked by my IT to email them the message on the screen, I would call to my colleague - can you type up this for (and read it out) me and send it to James @ IT company.. he is expecting it. We have actually done it before.

However I have one that until this day I don't know how it was supposed to be executed.

Fleet manager: one of our brand new company cars has intermittent fault. The board computer with SatNav suddenly switches off while the driver is driving (usually close to important part of journey when the driver suddenly doesn't know where he is supposed to turn!!). It comes back on after a little while again.

Helpline: Can he take a picture of it as it happens?

What is black screen going to tell them? He could have switched it off as well before taking the picture... and wait for it to happen with camera ready when driving? Not the safest thing..

KateBob

Said by one collegue to another who had a cold.

"You should try that euthanasia stuff, it'll clear it up a treat" :eek:

(apparently they ment echinacea)

Mankysteve

Nsfw
I over heard a you g lady say at the top of her voice to her oh

Well you keep putting in my bum

Dirk_Gently_2

jm2926 wrote: »

In any case, the screenshot isn't going to be emailed from anywhere unless someone takes a photo of it as you can't screenshot a bluescreen, so may as well email from the phone used to take the photo. Folk think IT are daft asking these questions, but error screens can contain important information.

Agreed, but in the post I think they wanted the error message, not a screenshot, so that could theoretically be typed in. (Hopefully without the masses of debug code, though....)

In reality it just sounds like a junior call logger followning a script of info needed before they could pass the call on, but without having the knowledge or training to understand the circumstances.

What's much more concerning was when a technical salesman tried to sell me an out-of-hours monitoring system which would check the health of the corporate email system. If the system was down, it would notify me by sending me an email ......

VJsmum

Heard on a train last week

Train manager "there's no 'e' in Gravesend"

Dirk_Gently_2

I was in a shop with my elderly mother once, and she wanted some batteries for her radio, and asked in a loud voice "Have you got any of those Durex ones - they're meant to be very good."