AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGH!

[blamebrampton]

Discussion with IT earlier today --

Me: Guys, there is something weird happening with your email system, people are trying to send me things and they are not coming through. Some are bouncing, some are just never being delivered.

Them: No, it's fine. They probably just typed your name in wrongly.

Me: No, because some of them have been later forwarded to this address again, or sent to my private email, and I've been able to check they were right.

Them: No, our system is perfect. There is a problem at the user end. You have a weird first name, they probably just fixed it when they forwarded so they didn't look dumb.

[Just now]

*Sends self email at work as a CC of email to workmate*

*Both emails return, saying that neither of us exist*

*Sends work IT an email from home email pointing out that I DO know how to spell my own name*

*Email returns saying that work IT Dept does not exist*

There is an incisive meta comment in that last part, but I am too exhausted to appreciate it. On the up side, I now have proof positive that their system is not perfect. Thank you for listening to this winge, I now do not have to scream.

Comments

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You are right to laugh! Or, indeed, cackle ;-)

Seriously ... it's bad enough that I am still reading page proofs at 1am thanks to other people's madness (which, I admit, I should have predicted), but now I have to get up early to be in before my early staff are so I can tell them what I was going to email. *Weeps!*

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Don't be silly. There never was an IT Department.

You have to stop this nonsense about there being an IT Department.


(With apologies to the MST3K crew.)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Don't even joke about it -- I would not it put it past the buggers!

[nenne.livejournal.com]

I been laughing non-stop now for five minutes. I am not joking. I have had so much trouble with IT-solutions the last few weeks myself and I really needed this!

I will have to copy your post and show it to some RL friends. I hope you don't mind. This is just hilarious.

[elissande.livejournal.com]

I've always suspected that IT departments are imaginary. We've imagined them so that we can add extra stress to our daily lives and the resultant adrenalin makes us work harder, stay later and get there earlier. It's obviously working...

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Have you tried turning your IT Department off and then on again?

*g*




But don't deny yourself a good scream, because holding it in isn't good for your health.

♥ you

[florahart]

I think you should print out all this nonsense and fax it to them.

Heh.

also: ahahahahahahahahaha

[vaysh11.livejournal.com]

I do wonder how to correct your first name if it ever crossed my mind to correct other's people's return email addresses. *ponders*

[shadowclub.livejournal.com]

A classic computer IT fail...

♥

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Oh lawd, this takes me back...

Have they set storage limits on inboxes? A friend of mine was complaining about the idiocy of his computer department on this recently.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

I always knew you didn't exist.

[ladyjaneva.livejournal.com]

Oh don't you just want to hit them?!

Can you at least tell them that in person tomorrow, so that you can hopefully see them cringe in embarassement? They deserve to be ridiculed a bit...

[azurelunatic]

Oh dear. Oh, dear.

I think it's time to start faxing.

[being-here.livejournal.com]

I would still scream. Then start stabbing people. But that's just the way I roll baby.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Sorry. But yeah. I'd be beating your non-existent IT dept over the head with that one.

[pushdragon.livejournal.com]

Oh honey!

Didn't Kafka write about a lady whose very existence was wiped out, starting with her email address? If he didn't, I'm sure he was just about to.

For what it's worth, I think it's quite probable you exist.

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

*Email returns saying that work IT Dept does not exist*

That says it all, really. :D

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

blargh! what a pita!

[kitty_fic]

So, I'm curious now! What did they say to that!? O_o