I officially work with dilbert



  • just received this email:

     The phone and network systems that were affected by yesterday's ice storm have gone back down. The network is now running on the backup connections, but the phone systems are completely down. If you have any questions, please contact the Helpdesk at x300. We will update you when we have more information.

     

    note: I anonymized some information



  • Win98 help for checking ones internet connection had one bogus solution, and then suggested one went to MS' website to get more assistance.



  • @campkev said:

    ...

    yesterday's ice storm...

    note: I anonymized some information

    You mean it was actually a thunderstorm? Or maybe even a firestorm? Earthquake? Volcano? Meteorite? Truck crashing into the building?



  • @m0ffx said:

    @campkev said:
    ...

    yesterday's ice storm...

    note: I anonymized some information

    You mean it was actually a thunderstorm? Or maybe even a firestorm? Earthquake? Volcano? Meteorite? Truck crashing into the building?

     

    No, I am sure he means ice storm.



  • Does no one have a sarcasm detector here?



  • @Morbii said:

    Does no one have a sarcasm detector here?

    Nope. None to be found. Thanks.

    Come again soon.



  • Our latest release was delayed because armed men broke into our server room and stole everything earlier this week.  Not quite as WTFy, but a way cooler reason for an outage than an ice storm.



  • @vt_mruhlin said:

    [A]rmed men broke into our server room and stole everything earlier this week

    Government raids are fun.
     



  • @campkev said:

    If you have any questions, please get up from your ass and go contact the Helpdesk at x300.

    Better? 



  • @Zecc said:

    @campkev said:

    If you have any questions, please get up from your ass and go contact the Helpdesk at x300.

    Better? 

    Say, just how do you "get up from your ass and go" to a telephone number, anyway?

     



  • @Morbii said:

    Does no one have a sarcasm detector here?

    Oooh, a sarcasm detector - that's a real useful inventio-...<KABOOM>

     




  • DaveK... it says "get up and go *contact* the Helpdesk".  You lose.



  • If you have any questions, please get up from your butt, buttuming you are sitting down of course, and go contact the Helpdesk at the place where you'd expect the telephone to which the extension x300 is normally buttigned to be and please try your best not to complain about long sentences because we don't want to hear aboub reast.

    How about now? 



  • @Zecc said:

    If you have any questions, please get up from your butt, buttuming you are sitting down of course, and go contact the Helpdesk at the place where you'd expect the telephone to which the extension x300 is normally buttigned to be and please try your best not to complain about long sentences because we don't want to hear aboub reast.

    How about now? 

    Wouldn't work at my place.  Helpdesk is in India. 



  • Ice has knocked out the external phone and data connections.  Why is it a WTF that your internal systems still work?  You've never heard of a PBX or Exchange Server?

     

    If you work with Dilbert, I guess that means you are Wally?   Ratbert?  The PHB? 



  • @RonBeck62 said:

    Ice has knocked out the external phone and data connections.  Why is it a WTF that your internal systems still work?  You've never heard of a PBX or Exchange Server?



    I was going to say the same thing, but considering they are thinking about moving all of our servers to the overlord HQ in another state, as well as go with a different phone system (assumingly to integrate the company as a whole), I think we'd be in the same boat if a storm hit. As it stands, our phones and e-mail work as long as we have internal power because we have a PBX and Exchange Server.



  • No, you officially are Dilbert.  It's his cow-orkers that pull this sort of retarded shit, remember?

     



  • @emurphy said:

    No, you officially are Dilbert.  It's his cow-orkers that pull this sort of retarded shit, remember?

     

    Maybe he was the one who sent the email, and he was on the distribution list so he also got the email.  That would make everyone else Dilbert, and make him the PHB. 



  • @m0ffx said:

    @campkev said:
    ...

    yesterday's ice storm...

    note: I anonymized some information

    You mean it was actually a thunderstorm? Or maybe even a firestorm? Earthquake? Volcano? Meteorite? Truck crashing into the building?

    Hey, here in Southern California they told us the other day that we'd have "thundersnow", which they claimed was very common in the Midwest. I lived in the MIdwest for 25 years and never once heard the term "thundersnow."



  • @RonBeck62 said:

    Ice has knocked out the external phone and data connections.  Why is it a WTF that your internal systems still work?  You've never heard of a PBX or Exchange Server?

     

    If you work with Dilbert, I guess that means you are Wally?   Ratbert?  The PHB? 

    it's a wtf because this was sent out from missouri and I am in dallas



  • @campkev said:

    it's a wtf because this was sent out from missouri and I am in dallas


    Jokes don't work if you leave out the punchline, you know...


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