[Closed] Possibly got myself in trouble in work - any advice?

If only we could somehow send a link to this thread to the colleague. 😛

This reminds me of the NTL email that did the rounds a few years ago that culminated in:

"you're clearly too stupid to own or operate a computer so go to your cupboard, get the boxes out, pack it away and do us all a favour" or summit like 😆

thats quite amusing grumm

All this just reminds me how much I hate being office based these days

Spent a good part of my working life supervising roadworks contractors and in general apart from the odd heated argument here and there which was always settled over a pint or two after work we had a good laugh and a joke

The last few years has been spent with desk jockeys and they are for the most part so easily offended and acutely sensitive. All this old crap about not showing them any respect in front of others if you mention they have messed up.

It seems the men are far worse than the women especially the middle aged gents. Just tell this bloke to mind his own business and don't go poking about if you are that easily offended.

Somebody has just forward a link to this thread.

I can't believe that after insulting me via email and then sending a clearly insincere appology the GEEK has the nerve to start a internet chat room thread on the subject. I will definately be taking this to my manager.

Thanks to WCA for letting me use his log in and explaining what a chat room thread is.

Class thread, but do we know for sure that the colleague isn't already reading and/or contributing to the thread????

you could have done worse, my brother emailed his mate talking about how the boss was a nazi. obviously using an automated address system the software duly summoned up his mates name and email address.

sadly the boss in question has a similar name, can you guess what happened next children?

that's right! he was made unemployed

we'll never stop laughing at him about it

I somehow managed to set up an auto-response email that auto-replied and cc'd everyone in my address book to tell them i was out of the office, rather than reply to any address and tell them i was out.

I then had the joy of explaining to my manager at the time why a number of our clients had received emails, cc'd back to all the addresses in my contacts from my Mate John, calling me a stupid kunt etc etc.

Suffice to say a lot of individual emails were sent out on my return, crawling and licking.

Remember revising a colleagues auto replay to something like

Simon will be out of the office until the 26th. On returning please refer to her as Sandra

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*Sigh*

Back in the day I got banned from STW for posting that image...

ROTFL. I don't think I managed to keep my composure while watching that.

Fantastic vid. *forwards to all and sundry*

 

Any mechanics on here. My car won't go.

I'm making the brum brum noises and everything.

here we go

As a student, i worked in Dixons on Prince's Street in Edinburgh

now, we had a little competition going. When arriving for work in the morning, several members of staff liked to enjoy a quiet 5 minutes in the toilet with the paper to drop off the previous nights dinner.

due to a large surplus stock of polaroid cameras, it was decided that a contest should be run to compare the fruits of these labours. A noticeboard was duly erected and the 'Big Chug' competition began with regular photographic evidence of logging off in a fairly impressive fashion. This went on for several months.

Eventually we all lost interest and took to other forms of entertainment. One of the management had however decided on a project to scan and catalogue the competition, presumably for posterity. Using a scanner and PC on the shop floor the polaroids were saved to disc.

A few months later, the scanner range changed and the shops display stock was sold off.

you can probably imagine the rest of the story.

needless to say, a lovely old Edinburgh Lady did not appreciate her 'free gift' and reported the store to trading standards 🙂

the same store also sold a display PC to an elderly couple. after a year or so a younger family member helped to 'clean up' the PC as it had become slow. he found it to rammed full of pretty filthy pornography.

that is why you won't get on the internet on display PCs in dixons and that episode is (was) used as an example at Dixons training camp

If you've apologised then nothing more need be done. However, if the user saw your comments using an account that wasn't theirs, then quite frankly they should wind their neck in.

What you shouldn't do is try to remove any trace because no matter how hard you try, you'll leave a trail.

I'm not sure how large a company you work for, but I've always found that large companies attract the kind of work shy, complainers that take everything to offence. This makes them a very bad place to work for people who have an opinion, personality or who actually do a proper days work as opposed to a full day of playing corporate politics.

I got out of Enterprise IT years ago and haven't looked back, there are decent places to work if you're in IT and they're called SME's where you can actually get appreciated and rewarded for your hard work and diligence.

And breathe......

If you want to see him struggle for a bit, take a screendump of his current desktop and set it as his screensaver. . .